Santhosh Sangappa

About Santhosh Sangappa

Global Payroll Professional • Dynamic career of 14+ years that reflects rich global experience & year-on-year success in APAC Payroll & Off boarding, Leading end-to-end execution, delivery & management & offshore continuous improvement activities in a Global Delivery Model.• Owns the entire APAC payroll process (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Australia) from start to finish, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant processing, delivery, and reconciliation of all payrolls, oversee year end payroll tax reporting • Leads APAC Payroll team of 10 Members in processing multi-country global exempt and non-exempt payrolls, including processing new hires, terminations, stock income, fringe benefits, bonuses. • Part of shared service set up for payroll, Multiple payroll Transitions • Reviews and performs all necessary approvals, payroll funding and controls. • Manage and supervise payroll SLAs/KPIs, Monthly connects with stakeholder and payroll vendor (governance module), Ensuring high value customer service to employees.• Ensuing operational & regulatory risk, identifying the mitigation plans, ensuring the compliance in payroll tax and regulatory reporting, Audit, regulatory/data sensitivity training for team.• Works with global mobility and outside firms to support employees on international assignments regarding taxes (Expat employees)• Team Handling - Train, develop, and evaluate payroll team members to enhance their skills and performance• Directed cross-functional & cultural teams using interactive & motivational leadership; acknowledged for leading, recruiting & mentoring team members to achieve resource-wise productivity & optimization• A forward thinking person with strong communication, analytical & problem-solving skills; well organized with a track record that demonstrates self-motivation & creativity to achieve corporate goalsProject Handled: Consultant - Payroll interface stream - Oracle HCM Cloud • Responsible for setting Payroll Interface between HR data base & Vendor payroll system, Currently Leading Payroll stream migration to Oracle HCM cloud from PeopleSoft. • Responsible to take the change management requests from payroll interface point of view, proposing solutions, building payroll functional test scripts, working with HRIS teams on configuration of payroll interfaces, testing\'s all payroll scenario\'s till go live in phase wise like SIT (system integration test), UAT (User acceptance test), Payroll Parallel runs and ensure Strong coordination with businesses and developer

Experience

1. Specialist 3 - Payroll

   Sandisk

   Sep 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   I\'m happy to share that I\'m starting a new position as APAC Payroll Specialist @ Sandisk

Education

• Surana College of Management studies

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Human Resources Management and Services