Lead, Payroll Operations, APAC

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team. Snowflake is looking for an experienced Lead, Payroll Operations to be an integral part of the payroll operation supporting the APAC region. This position will be based in Pune, India. You are a versatile, motivated, creative, intellectually curious, analytical collaborator and a strong communicator.

Reporting into the Payroll Manager, your role is a hybrid of direct operational execution and supervisory oversight to ensure the smooth delivery of day-to-day operations. This role will be individual contributor, while you will not have direct reports, you will be responsible for the supervisory health of the broader APAC payroll landscape, driving process standardization and automation to ensure all regional operations remain smooth, scalable, and compliant.

Responsibilities

Payroll Processing & Execution

• Direct Processing: Ensure accurate and on-time end-to-end payroll processing for assigned payrolls within the APAC region.

• Input Management & Technical Review: Accurately capture all inputs to be provided to payroll vendors in a timely manner. Perform thorough payroll analysis, including total gross to net payment reconciliations and comparison to prior periods

• Compliance: Ensure adherence to all applicable payroll laws, tax regulations, and statutory filings for assigned jurisdictions.

Team Supervision & Oversight

• Operational Supervision: Oversee the day-to-day delivery of payroll operations for the assigned counties in APAC region, reviewing, approving payrolls and ensuring the team meets accuracy and timeline requirements.