Syafiqa Afira Mohd Saad

Operations Associate

Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia11 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in payroll processing across multiple countries.
  • Strong stakeholder management and employee engagement skills.
  • Proven track record in process improvement and data management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Payroll and HR Operations Specialist with expertise in multinational payroll processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Stakeholder ManagementEmployee EngagementPayroll ProcessingData ManagementBenefits AdvisoryProcess ImprovementTax ManagementCustomer ServiceTalent AcquisitionData Analysis

Other Skills

Supplier ManagementArticulationManagement AccountingCoachingPresenterMicrosoft 365APACData PrivacyOperations ManagementTalent ManagementTax ReportingConfidentialitySpoken EnglishMalayUnderstand & Convey Complex Information

About

Keen to explore new job functions for new career development after almost 9years doing payroll processing. Looking forward to leverage my strength: 1) Stakeholder management 2) Articulation skills 3) Analytical skills

Experience

11 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Bosch malaysia

2 roles

International Assignment & Intern Recruitment Lead

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Lead Inbound and Outbound assignees process which includes visa application, mobility, and maintenance of expat.
  • Drive to ensure all expat benefits and needs being taken care during their stay in Malaysia as per policies which includes school fees, rental stay and bank account opening.
  • Point of contact for expat related matters for local HR and contact for local policies for Global
  • Drive the team to work closely with relocation/ property agent, ensure expat find accommodation according to their expectations
  • Ensure expat file for their monthly tax for all inbounds includes foreign intern, annual tax return and tax clearance done timely.
  • Provide intercultural sharing sessions and onboarding for new Inbound.
  • Overseeing intern recruitment for 3 entities within Bosch in Malaysia.
  • Sourcing talent for unique requirements and difficult hiring manager.
  • Coordinate internship sharing on their key takes away and feedback.
  • Plan out university window for student internship program according to open positions availability.
Supplier ManagementArticulationStakeholder ManagementEmployee Engagement

Senior Human Resources Officer (Team Lead HR Ops and payroll)

Apr 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Ensuring smooth-running and efficiencies of data management required for payroll cycle processing
  • Develop monitoring, checking and reporting systems for internal HR Shared Services as well as for stakeholders.
  • Accountable for achieving Payroll related Performance Indicators, operational level agreements and service levels to the customers.
  • Identify potential areas of improvement and recommend solutions to Team Manager.
  • Perform scheduled and periodical internal control checks to ensure data quality and compliance adherence at all times
  • Attend to all payroll and data management audits and risk assessment requirements
  • Plan resources within the team to deliver assigned transition and operations duties in adherence to monthly service levels
  • Assign operational tasks to team members appropriately
  • Maintain transparent communication channel by reporting operational updates and issues to customers and stakeholder
Management AccountingCoachingPayroll ProcessingData Management

Lumileds

Senior Payroll & Benefits Specialist

Jul 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Penang, Malaysia

  • Responsible to process payroll for SG/TH/IN end to end process and prepare monthly reports for finance team posting i.e Provision reports, Payregister consolidation.
  • Lead Year End activities for Income Tax and shutdown leave calculation.
  • Attending employee queries which related to payroll output i.e OT, Absence, pension fund other types of contribution appears in payslips, Benefits & entittlement.
  • Process employee leaving cases including tax clearance and manual payments processing.
  • Focal for auditor and Government to request for reports and query on payroll and payment processes in these 3 countries.
  • Overseeing AU/ID/VN payroll and doing benefits advisory role which includes policy review.
  • Leading process improvements on SG Time Attendance process from employe to vendors till output and Payroll Checklist for BCP.
Management AccountingCoachingPayroll ProcessingBenefits Advisory

Shell

2 roles

Payroll Fuctional Lead - SG/HK

Promoted

Sep 2017Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Responsible to process payroll for SG & HK end to end process which includes 3rd party payments & statutory payments and backup for payroll controller on payment nature checking.
  • Lead on sharing and aligning payroll process during partnership meeting based on current defects or issues to close gap and educate on impact to business partner as well as provide solutions/work around with best practice sharing.
  • Involved in quarterly testing for changes in configuration in system to ensure output produce as per expected including Workday testing.
  • Perform posting to Finance (simulation and actual) in SAP system and liaise with Payroll Accounting team or focal to ensure posting is done without error in Finance system also any open items/backlogs.
  • Attending employee queries which related to payroll output i.e pension fund other types of contribution appears in payslips.
  • Lead on Year End activities for Tax form preparation, Offcycle Annual Wages Supplementary bonus, Local pension fund calculation, Retirement Benefit recon yearly checking.
  • Support ad-hoc employee dismissal and redundancy cases which requires end to end extra care on the recovery, calculation and salary adjustment.
Management AccountingPresenterPayroll ProcessingProcess Improvement

Senior Payroll Analyst - PH/TH

Aug 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr

  • Acting payroll processor for PH/TH for 8 months in end to end payroll processing and system quarterly testing with.
  • Support Year End activities for PH tax form preparation which includes employee data cleanup.
  • Attending to employee also management queries on Tax calculation, Tax form generation, manpower costing also consolidating all remaining payment elements and process final payment for leavers thru.
  • Payroll focal for M&A /divestment project and lead all partnership calls as an acting Functional Lead with other HR functions i.e. HRSD, Transfer & Expat Team.
Microsoft 365APACPayroll ProcessingTax Management

Intel corporation

2 roles

HR Shared Services Center Greater Europe Region Payroll & Benefits at Intel Corporation

Aug 2014Jul 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • 1) Payroll Analyst that execute end to end process (input - validation - payment process) including statutory deductions
  • 2)Customer oriented on payroll escalations
  • 3)Process improvement on payment portions
  • 4)Payment Analyst who process 33countries payroll&statutories payments, expenses also claim from candidate.
Microsoft 365Data PrivacyPayroll ProcessingCustomer Service

HR Talent Acquisition Internship

Feb 2014Jul 2014 · 5 mos

  • HR staffing
  • To source for Talent regardless experience or fresh for business need
  • Organizing college relationship program inside and outside to attract more talent
  • Performing data analysis on talent pool also the business need to see what can we can do differently
PresenterMicrosoft 365Talent AcquisitionData Analysis

Education

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) — International Business

Jan 2012Jan 2014

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