HR Specialist - Contractor

Key Responsibilities:

serve as a key operational partner in payroll processing, data integrity, budget support, and HR system initiatives in a fast-paced retail environment. key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Payroll Execution & Compliance:

• Process monthly payroll for full-time, part-time Beauty Consultants (BCs), and interns with 100% accuracy and timeliness, adhering to strict internal controls and compliance standards.
• Validate monthly BC attendance records, verify leave documentation, and guide sales teams on proper leave management practices—ensuring policy consistency and audit readiness.

Data Integrity & Cross-Brand Coordination:

• Consolidate, validate, and reconcile payroll input data from multiple retail brands against established compensation guidelines and master data rules.
• Partner with CIIC (or other local vendors) to review social insurance contributions and Individual Income Tax (IIT) calculations, ensuring full compliance with Chinese labor, tax, and social security regulations.

Documentation & Audit Readiness:

• Maintain complete, organized, and audit-compliant payroll records in line with internal control and statutory requirements.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Build and sustain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders (HRBPs, Finance, Retail Operations) and external partners (payroll vendors, auditors).

Budget & Market Intelligence Support:

• Support the budgeting process for retail staff labor costs
• Prepare and analyze payroll data for internal/external BC compensation benchmarking surveys to assess market competitiveness.
• Monthly reporting for retail labor costs and sales related variable costs to help provide overview of cost efficiency across brands.

Continuous Improvement & Projects:

• Proactively contribute to payroll-related initiatives, including HRIS enhancements, system implementations, automation, and process optimization.

Skills & Competencies:

• A Bachelor degree holder with at least 3-5 years payroll working experiences in agency or multinational company.
• Familiar with China Labor Law, tax law, social security regulations and policies and related operation procedures.
• Excellent Microsoft skills, especially advanced level of MS excel and PPT.
• Good command of English in both oral and written.
• Strong sense of responsibilities and logic thinking.
• Excellent customer service, problem solving and communication skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated, detail-oriented, willing to take initiative on process enhancement.