Payroll and Compensation Executive

Job Title: Payroll and Compensation Executive Company: GMG Job Category: SAP HCM Roles & Responsibilities: ROLE SUMMARY The role reports to the Manager \- Payroll, who reviews statutory and high\-value outputs, and works with independent judgement within policy as the control point between compensation decisions and accurate pay. Scope and Dimensions: Employees paid: 7,500\+ each month \| Payroll areas: 36, across 8 countries \| Countries: UAE, KSA, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt and India \| Pay cycles supported: Monthly payroll, monthly sales incentives, annual increment and performance payouts, final settlements \| Systems: SAP SuccessFactors (HUB), SAP payroll on S/4HANA, SAP EC Payroll (go\-live in 2027\) \| Reports to: Manager \- Payroll \| Direct reports: None ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES * Own the application of payroll and compensation law for expatriates and local country nationals in MENA: pension and social security contributions for nationals, end\-of\-service gratuity, overtime, and final settlements, reviewed by the Manager \- Payroll * Maintain the country\-by\-country statutory reference for gratuity, overtime, working hours and pension contributions, and flag where policy and law diverge * Ensure compliance with labour law, WPS and social security requirements across MENA and India; prepare evidence for internal audit and external auditors (including the annual payroll test of controls) * Act as backup for critical monthly payroll steps; support MENA and India payroll within cut\-off and statutory deadlines * Calculate monthly end\-of\-service, leave liability accruals, and reconcile them with Finance * Reconcile payroll to Finance for final settlements and employee account (SOA) balances: explain wage types, resolve mismatches, and clear negative or outstanding settlements with HR Operations and Finance * Produce payroll cost analytics: budget vs actual, cost by entity and country, pay positioning, and increment and payout modelling for leadership * Define and test compensation elements in ECP (pay components, eligibility rules, wage type mapping); support data cleansing, parallel runs, cutover, and hyper care * Monitor compensation data flowing from SuccessFactors (HUB) to payroll; resolve replication rejections that affect pay before the payroll cut\-off * Document processes and controls (maker\-checker, reconciliations, approval evidence) and build EC Payroll capability across the team, reducing reliance on the implementation partner after go\-live * Identify manual, person\-dependent payroll steps and standardize or automate them, using data and AI tools in line with the North Star operating model Work Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Availability: Full time

The Payroll and Compensation Executive is the payroll team's owner of compensation and benefits delivered through payroll, for more than 7,500 employees in 36 payroll areas across the UAE, KSA, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, and India. The role makes sure that every approved pay decision (an increment, a promotion, an allowance, an incentive, or a final settlement) reaches the payslip correctly, on time and in line with policy and local law. Compensation in payroll * Own the wage code and pay component catalogue across all payroll areas: simplify, benchmark, and rationalize existing codes; design new ones with clear rules, GL mapping, and controls * Execute the annual increment cycle in payroll end to end, costing, mass upload, retro pay and reconciliation to the approved increment budget, for sign\-off by the Manager \- Payroll * Process approved performance\-linked payouts and promotion adjustments after calibration, reconciled to the approved payout file and budget * Validate allowances and benefits paid through payroll (housing, transport, air tickets, leave salary, education, and other allowances) against policy and grade; flag and resolve exceptions * Review the monthly Additions and Deductions reports for compensation items before HRBP approval, and close the root cause of recurring retro adjustments * GCC payroll and compensation law: end\-of\-service gratuity, overtime, leave salary and final settlements, and national pension and social security schemes (GPSSA, GOSI, PIFSS, SIO, Oman SPF, GRSIA, NOSI) * India payroll statutory basics (PF, ESI, professional tax, gratuity) an advantage * Wage code and pay component design, increment, promotion, performance payout, and sales incentive processing * End\-of\-service and leave accrual calculation; payroll\-to\-GL reconciliation; payroll cost analytics and modelling in advanced Excel (Power Query, pivots, lookups) * SAP SuccessFactors and SAP payroll (wage types, retro, payroll reports); hands\-on SAP EC Payroll configuration or testing strongly preferred * WPS and bank file requirements; payroll controls, reconciliations, and audit evidence * Automation and data literacy builds repeatable reconciliations and reports, and is comfortable using Power BI and AI tools to improve payroll work * 5\-7 years in payroll and compensation in the GCC (UAE and wider MENA required, India payroll an advantage), with hands\-on ownership of increment cycles, incentive or variable pay processing, wage code design and end\-of\-service calculations in a multi\-entity, multi\-country organization. * Experience in retail or a high\-volume frontline workforce, and exposure to an SAP payroll implementation, are strong advantages. Key Skills: Payroll, Payroll Configuration Salary: Not disclosed