The Payroll Associate is responsible for managing payroll processes, ensuring accuracy, complying with regulations, resolving inquiries, and maintaining records.
Job location: Nairobi/Lagos/Mumbai
About the role:
The Payroll Associate at Sun King will ensure the integrity, accuracy, and timely delivery of payroll services across assigned Sun King markets, serving as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders and in-country third-party payroll vendors. This role will play a critical role in maintaining payroll governance, data accuracy, confidentiality, and process efficiency, while supporting continuous improvement initiatives across markets.
About the role:
The Payroll Associate at Sun King will ensure the integrity, accuracy, and timely delivery of payroll services across assigned Sun King markets, serving as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders and in-country third-party payroll vendors. This role will play a critical role in maintaining payroll governance, data accuracy, confidentiality, and process efficiency, while supporting continuous improvement initiatives across markets.
What you will be expected to do
- Manage end-to-end payroll (salaries, bonuses, deductions) and ensure accuracy for all employees.
- Co-ordinate with HRBPs, Finance, and other departments monthly for payroll inputs and fund transfer.
- Ensure adherence to tax regulations, labour laws, and statutory requirements, including filing payroll taxes and reports. Maintain monthly statutory tax receipts without fail for all countries.
- Maintain and update payroll records (e.g., new hires, terminations, transfers) in payroll systems and handle changes in job status, titles, and compensation updates.
- Compile and present payroll data, including summaries of earnings, taxes, and deductions for management.
- Resolve employee inquiries regarding payroll issues, deductions, and paychecks. Identify, investigate, and resolve discrepancies in timesheet and payroll records.
- Assist and provide audit-related documents to auditors and manage internal and external payroll audits.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are
- 3+ years of experience in payroll process management.
- Working knowledge of payroll software
- Basic knowledge of tax procedures.
- Familiarity with benefits and other wage deductions.
- Multi-tasking abilities, attention to detail, and organizational skills.
- Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
What Sun King Offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
About
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones. Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.
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