Payroll and HR Operations Specialist
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Role Overview
The Payroll and HR Operations Specialist owns end-to-end payroll operations and supports the smooth operation of the HR function.
The role focuses on payroll accuracy, reimbursements, statutory compliance, HRMS data integrity, and employee lifecycle processes.
This is a high-ownership role in a fast-moving environment where precision and empathy are important.
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About Emergent
Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that generate, test, and deploy production applications from plain-language intent.
The company's systems operate at global scale and are used to build millions of applications.
The company reports more than $100M in ARR, over 10M users across 190-plus countries, and more than 12M applications built.
Emergent is backed by Creaegis, Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.
Role overview
The Payroll and HR Operations Specialist owns end-to-end payroll operations and supports the smooth operation of the HR function.
The role focuses on payroll accuracy, reimbursements, statutory compliance, HRMS data integrity, and employee lifecycle processes.
This is a high-ownership role in a fast-moving environment where precision and empathy are important.
Responsibilities
- Own monthly payroll inputs, validations, approvals, disbursement coordination, and post-payroll reconciliation.
- Manage employee reimbursements and full and final settlements for exiting employees.
- Coordinate payroll accounting, salary registers, audit requirements, and statutory filings.
- Maintain documentation for payroll and labour law audits and monitor regulatory changes.
- Maintain employee records, organizational structure, compensation, leave, and attendance data in Keka HRMS.
- Build HR reports and dashboards covering headcount, payroll cost, leave, and attrition.
- Maintain documented SOPs, clean workflows, and audit-ready data.
- Support onboarding, exits, employee engagement, and policy rollouts.
Required qualifications
- 3 to 6 years of experience in payroll and HR operations is required.
- Hands-on India payroll processing and statutory compliance experience is required.
- Experience with Keka or a comparable HRMS is required.
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills, including payroll registers, reconciliations, and reporting, are required.
- The role requires attention to detail, ownership, and discretion when handling confidential information.
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to US payroll is a good-to-have qualification.
- Experience supporting HR operations across multiple entities or geographies is a good-to-have qualification.
- Experience in a company that scaled from 100 to more than 500 employees is a good-to-have qualification.
Benefits and perks
- Lunch and dinner are provided daily.
- Family insurance provides coverage worth 5 lakhs.
- The company offers unlimited paid time off.
- Flexible working hours are available.
About emergentlabsinc
Venture-backed AI app builder helping entrepreneurs and businesses create production-ready web and mobile software from plain-language prompts.
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