Job Description
Job Title:  HR Operations & Payroll Specialist
Req ID:  48116
Job Location (Short):  Petaling Jaya, MYS
Employment Type:  Full Time
Segment:  Group Functions CEO
Job Category:  Human Resources
Work Location Type:  Hybrid

The Impact You'll Make

As our HR Operations & Payroll Specialist, you will play a key role in ensuring seamless HR service delivery and accurate payroll operations across Malaysia.

Your impact? You will help create a reliable, consistent, and compliant employee experience by managing core HR processes, supporting local teams, and safeguarding payroll accuracy in alignment with country-level, regional, and global HR policies.

You’ll collaborate closely with HR teams, payroll vendors, global mobility, talent acquisition, and local stakeholders, taking ownership of endtoend HR operations while enabling smooth employee lifecycle transactions and strengthening our operational foundation across the region.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Support local teams and individual employees on all HR operations through the HR ServiceHub technology platform.
  • Manage and administer payroll processes in partnership with the outsourcing payroll vendor (where applicable) while ensuring compliance and accuracy.
  • Support talent acquisition activities such as interview scheduling, background verification, employee referral payout processing, and related administrative tasks.
  • Coordinate the onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring a smooth employee experience.
  • Administer employee benefits including leave management, medical benefits, insurance updates, long‑service awards, training coordination, and related activities.
  • Oversee expatriate relocation support, employment/dependent pass applications, and collaborate with the global mobility team and external tax partners on expatriate taxation matters.
  • Maintain up‑to‑date and accurate employee personnel files and HR data records.

What We're Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience managing payroll and HR operations for Malaysia; experience across additional Asian markets is an added advantage.
  • Strong communication skills in English — verbal, written, and spoken.
  • Demonstrated customer centricity and a positive, solution‑oriented mindset.
  • High attention to detail, with strong time‑management and team‑collaboration capabilities.
  • Ability to work effectively across cultures with high sensitivity and professionalism.
  • Strong proficiency in MS Excel and its functionalities.

What You'll Get from Us

 

  1. We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
  2. You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
  3. We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
  4. You’ll receive a total rewards package that may include a range of benefits, depending on your location and contract type. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.

Ready to Make a Difference?

 

If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.

 


 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.

Information at a Glance

 

Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.

Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.000 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.

 

Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.

Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.