HR Benefits & Payroll Specialist, APAC

Rimini Street

. Conduct onboarding, employee changes, leave administration, and offboarding across APAC, ensuring a smooth and consistent employee experience.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇦🇺 AustraliaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Conduct onboarding, employee changes, leave administration, and offboarding across APAC, ensuring a smooth and consistent employee experience.
Serve as the first point of contact for day-to-day HR, payroll, and benefits queries—resolving items quickly and escalating thoughtfully when needed.
Maintain accurate employee records in Workday (or relevant HRIS), supporting smooth HR, payroll, and benefits processing across the region.
Coordinate payroll inputs across APAC to enable accurate, on-time payroll processing.
Ensure employee data changes (new hires, terminations, salary changes, promotions, allowances, and statutory updates) are captured correctly and within required timelines.
Partner with Payroll and Compensation & Benefits teams to troubleshoot payroll issues and support timely resolution.
Own day-to-day benefits administration across APAC, ensuring country-specific offerings are applied accurately.
Respond to benefits questions and guide employees on eligibility, coverage, enrolments, changes, and entitlements, providing feedback to global on any suggestions to improve.
Maintain accurate country-specific benefits summaries and keep benefits data aligned across HR systems and payroll.
Maintain compliance with local employment, payroll, and benefits requirements across APAC countries, including supporting audit and internal reviews with accurate records.
Monitor country-specific changes impacting payroll and benefits, and implement updates with key stakeholders.
Document HR, payroll, and benefits processes and maintain clear, user-friendly workflows.
Identify opportunities and take a lead role to improve efficiency, consistency, and risk management across APAC HR operations, and help implement practical solutions.
Support global programs and process improvements as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3–5 years’ experience in HR operations, HR coordination, or payroll coordination (ideally supporting multiple countries)
Hands-on experience supporting payroll, benefits, and employee lifecycle processes
Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities
Comfortable working with Workday (preferred) and Microsoft 365
Clear, confident communicator who enjoys partnering with stakeholders across countries and time zones

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Hard Skills & Tools

HR operationspayroll coordinationbenefits administrationemployee lifecycle processesdata managementcompliance managementprocess documentationrisk managementaudit supportemployee record maintenance

Soft Skills

attention to detailsound judgmenttime managementcommunicationstakeholder partnershipproblem-solvingefficiency improvementorganizational skillsadaptabilityconflict resolution