Payroll & Equity Lead - Asia

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

This position reports to the Senior Asia Finance Manager. We are seeking a Regional Payroll Lead to closely partner with external payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to handle an efficient, accurate, and compliant end‑to‑end payroll process, across 6 countries: Australia, Korea, Singapore, India, Japan, China.

The Asia Payroll Lead will support with payroll review from local service providers, payroll payment, payroll related tax filling, Equity-related filling, issue resolution, escalations, and continuous improvement initiatives.

What You'll Do

• This individual will be the Asia owner of the Payroll and Equity processes including: 
• Serve as the primary contact for regional payroll vendors, ensuring seamless integration
• Manage and execute accurate, timely, and compliant monthly regional payroll and Equity processes
• Oversee all payroll-related matters including tax, benefits, Equity Filling and year-end reporting, ensuring issues are resolved promptly and effectively
• Month end closing for Payroll related JE entries in NetSuite, performing monthly reconciliations between payroll reports and NetSuite/US GAAP standards
• Collaborate with HR and Finance to ensure alignment across related processes
• Conduct quality assurance and support internal/external audit requirements
• Stay current on regional payroll legislation and ensure organizational compliance
• Any other ad hoc assignment

Requirements

• This role requires a "process-first" mindset, ensuring that payroll is not just delivered on time, but is scalable, audit-proof, and data-driven to support Employee Success. Success in this role requires strong analytical capability, sound judgement, and the ability to challenge constructively
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting or equivalent
• 5+ years’ regional payroll experience across multiple countries 
• Fluent in English - both verbal and written communication
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, analytical skills, and attention to detail
• Collaborative team player with strong organization and time management skills
• Self‑motivated, proactive, and able to work independently
• Creative problem‑solver and advocate for process improvement
• Experience in handling overseas payroll – Not Limited to China only
• Highly proficient in MS office applications: Excel, Power Point and Word

Nice to Have

• NetSuite and Salesforce.com knowledge is a plus
• Fluent in Japanese/Korean is a plus

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.