Manager - Payroll & Shared Services

About Noon

We're building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East, fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to ring every doorbell, every day. As our business continues to grow across multiple geographies, Noons mission: Every door, every day.

About the Role

We're looking for a Manager, Payroll & Shared Services to lead payroll operations, shared services, compliance, and process transformation across the region.

What You'll do

- 1. Lead end-to-end payroll operations across multiple countries (preferably in UAE, KSA & India), ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing, including payroll inputs, salary revisions, incentives, final settlements, payroll accounting, reconciliations, and statutory remittances.

- 2. Ensure compliance with country-specific labor laws, payroll regulations, employee taxation, social security, pensions, gratuity, and statutory reporting requirements, while managing payroll audits and governance.

- 3. Oversee India payroll taxation, including monthly TDS computation, tax declarations, proof validation, annual tax reconciliation, Form 16, Form 12BA, and employee tax support.

- 4. Manage end-to-end employee lifecycle operations, including onboarding, employment contracts, contract renewals, promotions, transfers, salary revisions, organizational changes, and offboarding while ensuring compliance with company policies and local labor laws.

- 5. Lead HR Shared Services operations by ensuring timely execution of HR transactions, maintaining employee records, HRMS data integrity, organizational structures, reporting lines, cost centers, and master data governance.

- 6. Drive payroll and HR transformation initiatives through process standardization, automation, HRMS enhancements, workflow optimization, and implementation of best practices to improve operational efficiency and employee experience.

- 7. Develop, implement, and continuously improve payroll and shared services policies, SOPs, SLAs, governance frameworks, and internal controls to ensure operational excellence and audit readiness.

- 8. Partner with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, Procurement, Technology, and business leaders to support organizational restructuring, workforce planning, compensation changes, compliance, and strategic business initiatives.

- 9. Manage relationships with payroll vendors, compliance consultants, auditors, banking partners, and HR technology providers to ensure high-quality service delivery and effective stakeholder management.

- 10. Prepare and present executive dashboards, payroll metrics, headcount reports, compliance updates, payroll cost analysis, and operational insights to support strategic decision-making.

- 11. Lead, mentor, and develop the Payroll & Shared Services team by fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer-centric service delivery.

What you'll need

- 1. 8 - 10 years of experience in Payroll, Shared Services, HR Operations, or a related function, including significant experience managing multi-country payroll.

- 2. Strong expertise in India payroll, employee taxation, statutory compliance, PF, ESIC, Professional Tax, Labour Welfare Fund, gratuity, and labour laws.

- 3. Experience managing payroll operations across GCC countries and other international markets.

- 4. Proven experience in HR shared services, employee lifecycle management, contract administration, and HR operations.

- 5. Proven experience managing payroll vendors, compliance consultants, and third-party service providers.

- 6. Excellent stakeholder management, leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to lead large-scale operational and transformation initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Who'll Excel?

- 1. We're looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.

- 2. You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.

- 3. We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.

- 4. noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.