Compensation & Benefits Specialist

Title: Compensation & Benefits Specialist

Location: Bangkok (Head Office – Sathorn)

Employment Type: Full-time, permanent

Aura Wellness Group is one of Thailand's fastest-growing aesthetics and wellness platforms, with a portfolio that includes Aura Bangkok Clinic, Aura Xpress, and AURASOL Wellness & Spa. We serve both local and international clients with a full range of beauty, skin, and wellness solutions – from Botox and fillers to laser treatments and spa programs. From our head office in Sathorn, we support a rapidly expanding network of clinics and wellness outlets in Bangkok and key provinces. We are a performance-driven, yet friendly and collaborative organisation where ideas are valued, speed matters, and people who take ownership can grow quickly.

What you own

• Payroll accuracy. Measured plainly: errors per cycle, corrections needed after payroll has run, and filings submitted late. Zero on all three is the target, and it is achievable.

Key Responsibilities
1. Payroll cycle

• Run end-to-end monthly payroll for head-office employees. Payroll is reviewed and authorised before disbursement — your job is that there is nothing to correct when it gets there.
• Validate and process every input: attendance, overtime, leave, incentives, allowances, deductions.
• Handle joiners and leavers: prorated pay, final pay, accrued leave payout, and severance or notice pay where it applies.
• Execute annual salary review, increment, and promotion changes in payroll and HR systems.
• Publish the payroll calendar and hold the cut-off. Chasing inputs every cycle is a process problem, not a workload problem.

2. Statutory & compliance

• Prepare and submit all monthly and annual statutory filings on time — social security, provident fund, and withholding tax — and issue employees the year-end tax documents they need.
• Keep employee registrations current as people join and leave, with the Social Security Office, the provident fund, and the Workmen's Compensation Fund.
• Keep supporting documentation complete and audit-ready as you go, not at year end.
• Handle all employee data in line with PDPA.

3. Overtime & working time

• Process and check overtime against company policy and the rates set by Thai labour law.
• Monitor overtime against the statutory ceiling and flag anyone approaching it before the limit is reached.
• Analyse where overtime concentrates and why, and bring the pattern to the People team — not only the total.

4. Benefits & leave

• Process and reconcile benefit and allowance claims, checking eligibility and documentation before they are paid.
• Administer leave: accurate balances, correct approvals, policy applied consistently.
• Coordinate with benefit providers and the provident fund company on enrolments, changes, and claims.
• Find and bring in always-on employee perks — gym, dining, retail and lifestyle discounts. Source the partners, negotiate the terms, set them up, and drop the ones nobody uses.
• Run the annual comparison for group insurance and other benefit providers: what each option costs, what it actually gives employees, and how our claims experience looks. Bring the comparison to the People team so the renewal decision is made on evidence.

5. Market data

• Build and maintain the market picture for pay and benefits — published survey data, advertised rates, what comparable employers offer — and compile it into a clear comparison against Aura's bands, so the annual review starts from evidence rather than impressions.

6. Reporting & controls

• Prepare recurring monthly, quarterly, and annual C&B reports, plus the payroll accrual and reconciliation Accounting needs at each close.
• Prepare documentation for internal and external audits.
• Document the payroll process well enough that a cycle could be run without you. Nothing here should live only in one person's head.
• Employee support
• Be the first point of contact for head-office employees on payroll, benefits, and leave — answer what you can, escalate what you should.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on payroll. You have run cycles yourself, not coordinated a vendor who ran them.
• Working knowledge of Thai labour law, social security, and personal income tax as they apply to payroll.
• Strong Excel — comfortable with lookups, pivots, and reconciling two sets of numbers until they agree.
• Familiarity with Airtable is a plus. Our employee data lives there, and you will work in it daily.
• Analytical: able to see what a payroll trend is telling you, not only report the total.
• Comfortable approaching vendors and negotiating terms — this role builds the perks programme, not just administers it.
• High attention to detail. This role is measured on getting it right the first time.
• Discretion with confidential compensation data.
• Comfortable in a lean team where you own the whole process. This is not a large shared-services environment.

What good looks like

• Payroll closes accurately and on schedule every cycle; statutory filings go in on time, every time.
• Allowances, leave, and claims have a documentation trail that stands up to an audit without reconstruction.
• Employees get a clear answer quickly, and confidential information stays confidential.

Life at Aura

• Semi-flexible Office hour: 9.30-18.30
• Smart Casual Dress Code
• 2-min walk from BTS Chongnonsi (Sathon)
• Premium Health and Life insurance with Family Benefits
• High yield, high pop up Provident Fund plan
• Child Education Benefits
• Travel allowance
• Clinic service for free or at great cost.
• Extra Benefits to keep your Professional Look and Feel Fit.
• Free lunch (Select Days).
• Positive-energetic teammates
• Entertainment zone; Nintendo switch, PS, Board games etc.
• Shower room with hotel amenities.
• Luxury massage chair to keep office syndrome away
• Sleep box, take a rest and get up with fresher energy