Manpreet Kaur

About Manpreet Kaur

I am a payroll and HR operations professional specialising in Middle East payroll, with deep experience managing end-to-end payroll cycles, ensuring compliance, and delivering accurate, audit-ready results consistently. My work focuses on building structured, transparent, and stable payroll processes that empower leadership to make clear, data-driven decisions.I handle payroll comprehensively—right from data validation and manual calculations to reconciliations, reporting, and closing. My role includes managing GCC Nationals, ensuring all statutory elements and pensions are processed thoroughly and on time. I have hands-on experience with GOSI, GPSSA, SIO, and similar regional social insurance systems.I take responsibility for ensuring pensions, contributions, and submissions are completed without missing deadlines, with full accuracy and zero discrepancies.I ensure the integrity of payroll by applying strong controls such as 4-eye reviews, exception tracking, and quality checks. I also create clear SOPs, process documentation, reconciliations, and checklists that make payroll workflows transparent, scalable, and easy to audit. Maintaining process integrity, consistency, and 100% accuracy is a major part of how I operate.Known for my accountability, I proactively manage and support stakeholders across HR, Finance, TA, and leadership. I ensure they receive complete clarity, timely updates, and end-to-end support during payroll cycles, policy changes, and audits.I also contribute actively to process-improvement projects, including standardisation, documentation, workflow alignment, and implementation support. My approach to projects includes requirement mapping, structured documentation, and ensuring operational readiness for all teams involved.Before specialising in payroll, I gained strong HR experience in employee onboarding, where I coordinated full joining cycles, validated new hire documents, created SOPs, ensured accurate HRMS setup, and supported new employees with their initial queries. This HR foundation sharpened my detail orientation and strengthened my cross-functional coordination skills.My earlier career in Custody Finance for major State Street clients strengthened my base in accuracy, controls, and reporting.I hold a PGDM from Pune University and a Bachelor’s degree from Andhra University. I am committed to delivering reliable payroll operations, strengthening compliance, and building processes that support both employees and management.

Experience

1. Senior Payroll Specialist

   State Street

   Jan 2024 — Present