Bristol Myers Squibb India | Senior Manager, Payroll Accounting

Key responsibilities

• The Senior Manager, Payroll Accounting is responsible for leading the execution and operational performance of global payroll accounting activities, helping ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, strong controls, and high-quality delivery across the end-to-end payroll accounting process.
• Based in Hyderabad, this role will provide senior operational leadership across payroll accounting activities, including period-end close, journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, issue resolution, and reporting.
• The role will also play an important part in strengthening the global payroll accounting operating model through process standardization, automation, continuous improvement, and development of team capabilities.
• The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities.
• Lead the operational execution of global payroll accounting activities in alignment with GPO-defined processes, accounting policies, and control requirements.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for payroll accounting issues, including ADP-to-SAP interface discrepancies, and coordinate resolution across appropriate stakeholders.
• Drive high standards of accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and accountability across payroll accounting operations.
• Lead payroll accounting period-end close activities and key financial reporting deliverables.
• Provide oversight of payroll-related journals, accruals, reconciliations, and other close activities.
• Monitor and escalate material issues that could affect close timelines, financial reporting, or control execution.
• Partner closely with the Payroll Accounting GPO, People Services, Controllership, Country Controllers, Treasury, payroll providers, and business process outsourcing partners to resolve issues and strengthen end-to-end execution.
• Identify and drive opportunities for process standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Support implementation of global process improvements and ensure sustainable adoption within operations.
• Identify and communicate material operational, financial reporting, and control risks across payroll accounting.
• Coordinate appropriate remediation and contingency plans with relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain a strong control environment across payroll accounting activities and support compliance with applicable accounting policies, controls, and reporting requirements.
• Support internal and external audit requirements related to payroll accounting.
• Serve as a senior subject matter expert for payroll accounting, partnering with stakeholders across Finance and Controllership to address complex and escalated matters.
• Establish clear priorities and expectations and hold the team accountable for quality, accuracy, and timely execution.
• Identify development and upskilling opportunities to build sustainable payroll accounting capabilities within the team.
• Provide oversight across key payroll accounting activities, including compensation, benefits, journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and related financial reporting.
• Use operational insights and performance indicators to identify emerging issues and improvement opportunities.
• Record to Report Global Process Owner leadership
• Record to Report Operations
• Supporting People with Disabilities

Requirements

• Master’s degree and/or professional accounting qualification such as Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA, or equivalent preferred.
• 8–10 years of progressive experience in accounting, financial reporting, payroll accounting, or related Finance operations.
• Demonstrated experience with Payroll Accounting, Record to Report, and/or Controllership processes.
• Experience with Workday or comparable HR platforms preferred.
• Pharmaceutical or life sciences Finance experience preferred.
• Experience operating in a global, matrixed environment and working with outsourced service providers preferred.
• Strong knowledge of payroll accounting, Record to Report, and Controllership processes.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and payroll accounting interfaces; familiarity with ADP and payroll provider outputs strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive results across complex, cross-functional processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication capabilities.
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively across geographies, cultures, and organizational boundaries.
• BMS will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.
• Experience with ADP strongly preferred.
• Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Bristol-Myers Squibb was formed in 1989 when two American drug makers merged: Squibb, founded in Brooklyn by Edward Robinson Squibb in 1858, and Bristol-Myers, which began in 1887 when William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers bought the Clinton Pharmaceutical company in Clinton, New York. The company is based in Princeton, New Jersey, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as BMY. It develops and sells prescription medicines for cancer, blood disorders, immunology and cardiovascular disease, among them Eliquis, Opdivo, Revlimid and Orencia, and it bought Celgene in 2019. In India, Bristol-Myers Squibb India Private Limited runs commercial operations from Mumbai, the Biocon BMS Research and Development Center works in Bengaluru, and the company has a site in Hyderabad focused on drug development and information technology.

Finance hiring in Hyderabad covers record-to-report operations and controllership, with roles from senior finance specialist through Manager I and Manager II to senior manager. For the manager roles, qualified CA or CMA candidates need five to eight years of experience, while others need at least eight. The senior manager role asks for seven to nine years, including three to five years in accounting leadership.

• Industry: Biopharmaceuticals: prescription medicines for cancer, blood disorders, immunology and cardiovascular disease
• Headquarters: Princeton, New Jersey, United States (listed on the NYSE as BMY)
• In India: Bristol-Myers Squibb India Private Limited (commercial operations, Mumbai), the Biocon BMS Research and Development Center in Bengaluru, and a site in Hyderabad