Senior Mexico Payroll Specialist

Job title: Senior Mexico Payroll Specialist

About the Role DiDi Global is seeking a Senior Mexico Payroll Specialist to lead end-to-end payroll operations for Mexico. You will manage complete payroll cycles, ensure regulatory compliance, and act as the subject matter expert on Mexican payroll rules. This role partners with HR, Finance, Tax, and external vendors to deliver accurate, timely payroll while maintaining data privacy.

What You'll Do

• Manage complete Mexico payroll cycles including semi-monthly, off-cycle, bonus, special payrolls, finiquitos, and liquidaciones
• Collect, validate, and reconcile payroll inputs, time and attendance, finance, and payroll vendors
• Perform gross-to-net validation, payroll balancing, variance analysis, approvals, funding coordination, payroll execution, and payroll close activities
• Maintain accurate payroll master data, employee records, pay elements, deductions, bank details, tax data
• Serve as subject matter expert for Mexico payroll rules, statutory obligations, internal controls, and payroll best practices
• Terminations: final payroll, finiquito, liquidacion, severance, vacation payout, aguinaldo adjustments, PTU adjustments
• SAT: ISR withholding, CFDI payroll receipts, payroll tax reporting
• IMSS: employee registrations, salary modifications, employer contributions, disability reporting, risk classification, and contribution calculations
• INFONAVIT/Fonacot: loan deductions, employer reporting, contribution calculations, and employee deduction reconciliation
• State payroll taxes: calculation, reconciliation, filing support, and payment coordination
• Strong working knowledge of Federal Labor Law, Social Security Law, Income Tax Law, audit requirements, and payroll data privacy obligations
• Regular salary, overtime, shift premiums, vacation pay, vacation premium, aguinaldo, PTU, commissions, bonuses, incentives, gross-ups, finiquitos, and liquidaciones
• Support internal and external audits, evidence collection, and remediation of payroll findings
• Partner with HR, Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Benefits, Compensation, Legal, Internal Audit, external payroll vendors, and government agencies