HR Generalist

The HR Generalist (In-House Payroll & Benefits Focus) manages core HR operations with master-level ownership over manual payroll computation and total rewards. This role is responsible for building, maintaining, and processing internal payroll spreadsheets from scratch—translating complex attendance logs, multi-tiered tax calculations, and statutory deductions into flawless salary payouts.

Key Responsibilities & Duties

1. Manual In-House Payroll & Timekeeping Processing

• Data Compilation: Consolidate raw biometric time logs, shift schedules, overrides, and manual leave forms into master attendance sheets.
• Manual Calculation: Compute gross-to-net pay manually—including complex structures like variable overtime rates, night differentials, holiday premiums, retro-pay, and prorated salaries.
• Deduction Management: Calculate precise statutory contributions (such as SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, and BIR tax tables for Philippine settings) and recurring company loan deductions using exact manual matrices.
• Final Pay Computation: Manually compute full and final settlements, tax corrections, and clearance payouts for exiting employees.

2. Benefits & Government Compliance

• Government Remittances: Manually prepare, reconcile, and file monthly contribution and loan reports to government portals, ensuring exact matches with payroll deductions.
• Private Benefit Maintenance: Serve as the hands-on administrator for private HMO and life insurance plans, ensuring timely manual tracking of employee movements (additions/deletions).
• Audit & Validation: Conduct regular self-audits of internal payroll ledgers to find and fix errors before releasing bank advice.

3. Generalist HR Support & Employee Relations

• Lifecycle Management: Manage employee profiles from onboarding setup to offboarding clearance documentation.
• Pay Inquiry Resolution: Serve as the transparent point of contact for employees, readily explaining line-by-line manual tax adjustments, deduction breakdowns, or attendance disputes.

Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 3 to 5 years of HR Generalist experience, featuring at least 2+ years of handling end-to-end, manual in-house payroll processing.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or Business Administration.
• Technical Mastery:
• Expert Microsoft Excel Skills: This is non-negotiable. Absolute mastery of nested formulas (IF, IFS), lookups (XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH), pivot tables, and conditional formatting to safely build and audit payroll templates.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Intimate, working familiarity with local labor laws, minimum wage orders, and tax brackets to execute manual computations legally.
• Core Competencies:
• Hyper-Meticulousness: An extreme attention to numerical detail; a natural knack for spotting math discrepancies or data anomalies immediately.
• Stress Tolerance: Ability to remain sharp, organized, and focused while working under tight, uncompromising cut-off deadlines.

Pay: Php30,000.00 - Php35,203.57 per month

Work Location: In person