Mastercard India | Senior Specialist, Payroll Implementation & Integration-2

About the role and responsibilities

• The Senior Specialist, Payroll Implementation & Integration supports strategic payroll initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), P&C Modernization programs, system implementations, and process improvement efforts. This role serves as a key execution resource responsible for coordinating testing activities, validating payroll and employee data, supporting implementation readiness, and assisting with solution deployments across payroll operations.
• Support payroll workstreams during mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and organizational restructures.
• Assist with payroll integration planning and execution activities.
• Coordinate employee data collection, validation, and migration activities.
• Prepare implementation documentation and integration trackers.
• Support payroll readiness assessments and integration milestones.
• Execute project tasks, risks, issues, and action items.
• Assist in stabilization activities following acquisitions.
• Participate in payroll-related activities supporting Workday and P&C Modernization initiatives.
• Support configuration validation and business process testing.
• Work with cross-functional teams to evaluate payroll impacts of system changes.
• Coordinate payroll requirements gathering and documentation.
• Support process redesign and standardization initiatives.
• Execute end-to-end payroll testing activities for system implementations and enhancements.
• Develop and assist with unit testing, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), parallel payroll testing, regression testing
• Validate payroll calculations and outputs.
• Reconcile testing results and identify variances.
• Document, track, and help resolve defects.
• Verify successful implementation of payroll requirements.
• Create and maintain standard test scripts, process documentation, standard operating procedures
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes and implementation methodologies.
• Contribute to payroll implementation playbooks and best practices.
• Support operational readiness reviews.
• Collaborate with Payroll Operations, P&C teams, Benefits, Technology teams, Third-party payroll providers
• Participate in project meetings and provide implementation status updates.
• Escalate risks, issues, and testing concerns as necessary.
• Support communication and change management activities.
• Assist with issue resolution following implementations.
• Monitor payroll processing and implementation outcomes.
• Validate corrective actions and system fixes.
• Transition completed solutions to operational payroll teams.

Experience and qualifications

• Experience supporting payroll system implementations or upgrades.
• Understanding of payroll processes, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with testing methodologies and issue management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities.
• Experience supporting M&A integrations.
• Experience with Workday, ADP, or other payroll platforms.
• Experience participating in large-scale HR or payroll transformation programs.
• Knowledge of payroll compliance, tax, benefits, and time management processes.

Mastercard

Mastercard is a global payments technology company that runs one of the world's largest card payment networks, connecting consumers, merchants, banks and governments in more than 200 countries and territories. It does not issue cards or lend money itself: it provides the network, processing, security and data services that let banks and other partners offer credit, debit, prepaid and digital payment products. Its work also covers fraud prevention and cybersecurity, digital identity, open banking, and data-led advisory services for businesses and governments.

Mastercard has worked in India for more than four decades. It opened its first India technology hub in Pune in 2014, and Pune is now its largest workforce in a single city anywhere in the world; the company also has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Vadodara. Teams in India work on software, data and cybersecurity, and also in finance, franchise and network services, product management and the Advisors & Consulting Services practice, which gives clients strategy, analytics and marketing advice. Finance, revenue assurance, consulting and analytics roles here can suit CA, CFA, CMA, MBA (Finance) and commerce profiles.

• Industry: Payments technology — global card payment network, payment security and data services
• Headquarters: Purchase, New York, USA
• In India: Offices in Pune, Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Vadodara