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Pranit Shejwal

Mumbai

Summary

Experienced Payroll Manager with a proven track record in leading and developing payroll teams, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, and implementing process improvements. Adept at maintaining internal controls, managing automation projects, and collaborating with senior management on performance and project-related activities. Skilled in creating dashboards for effective tracking, executing monthly reconciliations, managing year-end projects, and transitioning pension providers. Known for achieving 100% accuracy in payroll processing and delivering significant time savings through automation initiatives.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Payroll Team Lead

General Mills India Private Limited
Mumbai
04.2020 - Current
  • Directed and provided feedback for daily tasks and career development of direct reports.
  • Maintained effective internal payroll controls, collaborating with management to identify and implement efficiency improvements.
  • Assisted management in refining and enforcing processes and procedures for optimal payroll accuracy and efficiency.
  • Partnered with senior management on team performance and project-related activities.
  • Led, coached, and developed the Payroll team, offering guidance on workload, priorities, assignments, and performance.
  • Ensured monthly payrolls were processed accurately, achieving 100% team accuracy.
  • Contributed to the development, implementation, and documentation of internal process improvements.
  • Managed service delivery with the Payroll service provider to ensure timely and accurate payroll report delivery.
  • Manage automation projects for EUAU, APAC, and US teams.
  • Independently delivered post-payroll automation projects, resulting in a significant time savings
  • Created a Payroll dashboard for daily activity tracking, enhancing team planning, day-to-day operations, and folder structure management.
  • Implemented monthly reconciliation files to ensure synchronization between in-house and payroll systems, ensuring accuracy.
  • Managed year-end projects, ensuring all activities were correctly processed by the payroll vendor.
  • Ensured timely execution and reporting of all monthly statutory processes.
  • Facilitated timely banking approvals to ensure prompt employee payments.
  • Ensured monthly payrolls were finalized on schedule, providing necessary approvals on time.
  • Conducted quarterly stakeholder meetings to review payroll delivery, discuss challenges and projects, and seek improvement feedback.
  • Managed the transition of pension providers, ensuring all related payroll changes, reporting, and SOP updates were completed accurately.

Payroll Specialist

General Mills India Private Limited
Mumbai
09.2017 - 03.2020
  • Acquired expertise in payroll for EAU, APAC, and MEA markets.
  • Transitioned European market payroll, ensuring completion within set deadlines.
  • Key contributor to the creation of SOPs and defining roles and responsibilities of payroll.
  • Ensured timely review and updating of all documentation.
  • Managed payroll for 5000+ employees, consistently meeting monthly deadlines.
  • Launched a new payroll reconciliation process, enhancing overall accuracy.
  • Supported month-end and year-end activities, contributing to streamlined and error-free financial closing.
  • Facilitated data reporting for statutory authorities and internal/external audits, successfully meeting all deadlines.
  • Played a key role in implementing automation ideas, reducing time and standardizing processes.
  • Developed checklists and automated comparisons of current versus previous month's payroll records, ensuring seamless monthly payroll delivery.
  • Attended training on the Workday system, gaining expertise in navigation and functionality.
  • Participated in cross-team training to ensure all backups are in place.

Delivery Analyst

AON HEWITT PVT LTD
Navi Mumbai
10.2016 - 09.2017

Process

· Timely allocation of task and ensuring all files/requests are completed within the timelines defined

· Ensuring that all the team members are processing all the transactions with accuracy following the standard process defined.

· Oversaw transactions, identify and rectify errors, provide feedback and ensure errors are within acceptable limits

· Work with other teams to implement global best practices. Conduct, Design, and/or deliver process/procedure training

· Develop and implement project for process improvements, internal communication and FTE saving.

· Assisting new hires in meeting their targets. Providing refresher trainings to team when required.

· Conduct process knowledge test for the team

· Organizing brainstorming sessions for the team in order to identify the area of changes or improvement within process.

Performance Management & Reporting:

· Responsible for ensuring that the process meet all KPI and SLA defined.

· Identifying & Analyzing data to understand the gaps in performance

· Implement action plans to ensure that process meets all performance parameter

· Work closely with Managers/Trainers in identifying individual coaching needs

· Supervising individual and team target

Quality:-

· Led a team of 6 in WFA Global operations for transactional processing

· Supervised team and individual targets, ensuring high performance

· Audited transactions, identified and rectified errors, and provided feedback to maintain quality standards

· Analyzed, created, and reviewed quality reports with managers and senior managers

· Focused on continuous process improvement and identified areas for team enhancement

· Organized daily and weekly calls with US counterparts for SOP reviews and updates

· Developed and implemented projects for process improvements, internal communication, and FTE savings

Delivery Specialist & Senior Delivery Specialist

AON HEWITT PVT LTD
Navi Mumbai
10.2014 - 09.2016

Workforce Administration (WFA)- Global, Global Expat/Inpat Process [US, Canada & Global population]

· Working in Work Force Administration team handling (International, US SAP, Expat/Inpat Process) on HRMS/ SAP application.

· Analyze regular and Executive employee’s profile, Hire and update employee details in Clients system as per requirement of client. Research on critical issue related to pay and assignments

Expat Payroll Process (US, Canada & Global population)

· Managed Pre payroll expat process of Expat and Inpat employees.

· Oversaw Bi-weekly Foreign Split, Multi currency, Inpat Tax Reimbursement (ITR) Process.

· Handle Quarterly FCC file and Yearly Tax settlement file of executive employees.

· Validate Global assignee’s Banking and Statutory information is correctly processed

Associate Team Member & Adv. Team Member

AON HEWITT PVT LTD
Navi Mumbai
05.2011 - 09.2014

· Processed accurate information for US and International employees on SAP and Global platforms, consistently meeting the deadlines.

· Analyzed employee profiles and updated the SAP system according to client requirements.

· Managed weekly/bi-weekly payments and deductions in SAP.

· Processed inbound and outbound interfaces, including STD, death, and tuition reimbursement.

· Managed audit and compliance tools to ensure data integrity.

· Analyzed, hired, and updated employee details in the client’s system based on specific requirements.

Team Associate

Zenta Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai
08.2010 - 04.2011

Project: Loan Mortgage

· To analyze and reconcile various reports relating to different Mortgage Loans.

· To check that calculations of Interest rates and update in future change lines.

· To check dates are properly mention and calculation of term.

· To solve queries or any issues of client.

Project: Lease Abstraction:

· To analyze Lease relating to different properties

· To abstract lease as per template provided by client.

· To solve issues related to Lease abstraction.

· To calculate the monthly expense of Tenant.

Education

MBA - Finance

ITM University
Mumbai
12-2016

Bachelors of Commerece - Commerce

S.K Somaiya College, Vidya Vihar
03-2010

High School Diploma -

D.A.V College, Bhandup
Mumbai India
03-2005

High School Diploma -

St Xavier’s High School, Bhandup
Mumbai, India
03-2003

Skills

  • Employee Relations
  • Payroll Management
  • Payroll Administration
  • Multi-state payroll

Timeline

Payroll Team Lead

General Mills India Private Limited
04.2020 - Current

Payroll Specialist

General Mills India Private Limited
09.2017 - 03.2020

Delivery Analyst

AON HEWITT PVT LTD
10.2016 - 09.2017

Delivery Specialist & Senior Delivery Specialist

AON HEWITT PVT LTD
10.2014 - 09.2016

Associate Team Member & Adv. Team Member

AON HEWITT PVT LTD
05.2011 - 09.2014

Team Associate

Zenta Pvt. Ltd
08.2010 - 04.2011

MBA - Finance

ITM University

Bachelors of Commerece - Commerce

S.K Somaiya College, Vidya Vihar

High School Diploma -

D.A.V College, Bhandup

High School Diploma -

St Xavier’s High School, Bhandup
Pranit Shejwal