Payroll Leader APAC (Mumbai)

ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves. Wella Company is one of the worlds leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin, Briogeo and ghd. With 6,500 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders. For additional information about the Wella Company please visit www.wellacompany.com. THE ROLE The Payroll Leader APAC is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of accurate, timely, and compliant payroll services across the APAC countries, covering Payroll, Time & Attendance, and Benefits Administration. As a key member of the Global People Support Center, this role ensures operational excellence, robust internal controls, and superior employee experience, while leading and developing a high-performing team of specialists. The role requires a payroll leader who can operate across complex country requirements, manage vendor performance, influence stakeholders, and help modernize payroll and time processes while ensuring day-to-day delivery remains stable. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES PAYROLL OPERATIONS AND SERVICE DELIVERY Lead end-to-end payroll delivery across APAC countries, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll cycles for salaried, plant, sales and other relevant employee populations. Oversee payroll inputs, payroll calculations, validation, approvals, funding, reconciliations, statutory submissions, month-end and year-end activities. Ensure robust governance and audit-ready documentation across payroll, time and benefits processes. Build visibility of payroll performance through KPIs, issue trends, root-cause analysis and service reviews. Partn .