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Your role and responsibilities
A Payroll Professional in Japan holds a critical, complex, and high regulated role and responsible for ensuring employees are paid accurate and on time, while meticulously complying with Japan's intricate labor laws, tax regulations. The hands-on execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual payroll cycles. Ensuring all payroll-related statutory filings and payments are made accurately and on time to the relevant Japanese authorities. The hands-on execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual payroll cycles. This includes:This is a critical role given Japan's complex tax system. The breakdown of key roles and responsibility are:
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• Cooperate with cross-country team with no border and work as one team to achieve business goal.
• Cooperate with related HR functions such as Benefit, Compensation etc. to complete irregular cases, solve the issues or work on special projects.
• Manage and guide contractors as business as usual.
• Interlock with tax bureau, city offices, legal affair bureau etc. to ensure the required regulations are acted accurately and timely.
• Respond to employee queries about payslip, resident tax, income tax, etc. and find solution for complex cases.
• Managing Year-End Tax Adjustment (Nenmatsu Chosei) for employees, including collecting declarations, calculating final tax, and issuing Gensen Choshu Hyo (withholding tax statements).
• Preparing and filing various tax forms (e.g., resident tax notifications).
• Collecting and validating all payroll input data (e.g., working hours, leave, new hires, terminations, salary changes, bonuses, allowances, deductions).
• Calculating gross pay, statutory deductions (income tax, resident tax, social insurance, labor insurance), and net pay.
• Processing special payments (e.g., severance, special bonuses).
• Generating payroll registers and reports.
• Ensuring timely and accurate salary disbursement to employees.
• Preparing payslips (both physical and electronic).
Required education
None
Required technical and professional expertise
• Japanese and English language skills in both writing and speaking, able to communicate in both languages clearly and accurately.
• In-depth knowledge and experience on Japan Payroll, especially understands the labor laws and tax regulations.
• Strong communication skills to communicate effectively with employees, internal team, HR functions and other stakeholders.
• Meticulous attention to details and high level of integrity & confidentiality, strong numerical accuracy, proficiency in payroll software, ability to handle confidential information, and a solid understanding of Japanese payroll calculations. Preferably experienced professional in handling end to end year-end process in SAP.
• Advanced Excel skills and data & documents management skills.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Ability of problem solving and resilience to navigate complex cases and resolve discrepancies.
• Identify areas for process improvement, automation and efficiency gains.
• Payroll system transformation experience and skills.
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