On - Senior Specialist, Payroll APAC - Tokyo

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In short

We are seeking for Senior Specialist Payroll who could proceed and manage the end-to-end payroll cycle across Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance.

This role will be located in Tokyo, Japan.

Your mission

– End-to-End APAC Payroll Management: Orchestrate and manage the full payroll cycle for Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, ensuring 100% accuracy and strict compliance with diverse regional labor laws and tax regulations.

– Strategic Financial Reconciliation: Partner closely with Finance teams to deliver precise month-end reports, reconcile payroll accounts, and resolve discrepancies, while managing statutory documentation and enrollment for local social insurances and pension schemes.

– System Optimization & SOX Compliance: Drive the integration and automation of payroll processes between internal systems (e.g., Workday) and external vendors, ensuring all operations align with internal SOX controls and global security standards.

– Scalability & Market Expansion: Lead the payroll infrastructure setup for new market entries and entities, while managing complex employment cases such as cross-border movements, relocations, and equity-based (ESS) compensation reporting.

– Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a key advisor to employees and business leaders on payroll inquiries, and collaborate with Total Rewards and HRBP teams to design and implement new regional HR initiatives.

Your story

– 4+ years work experience in payroll in Japan. Any other country is a plus
– Experience in payroll for Retail population for any of the countries of scope is a huge plus
– Excellent operational, legislative and best practice payroll knowledge in Japan and South Korea
– Excellent stakeholder management, attention to detail, used to handling confidential data, and analytical approach
– Experience working with external payroll providers
– Excellent excel skills
– Fluency in English and local language. Any other language is a plus

Meet the team

Being part of the talent team at On means to do things differently, we don’t do things just because they are what “HR does”. We build, grow, enable and empower the team to drive the future of On. Because this is what matters to us. Because we are On.