The Payroll Specialist is a senior role within the Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, responsible for end-to-end ownership of payroll operations for assigned countries or regions. The role involves driving payroll excellence, governance, and transformation across international operations. The specialist partners with People, Finance, Tax, Legal, and external vendors to strengthen controls and improve the employee experience. Key duties include managing monthly payroll activities, complex payroll accounting, vendor governance, leading payroll implementations, and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements. The position requires acting as a subject-matter expert, leading process improvements, and supporting audits and forecasting activities.
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This role is based in Bangkok, Thailand, and involves managing customer marketing initiatives within the Performance Marketing department. The Associate Manager will lead data-driven marketing programs designed to improve customer lifetime value. Key responsibilities include optimizing campaign performance through experimentation, developing predictive models to analyze data, and building dashboards to track performance and derive insights. The position requires close collaboration with product teams to implement data science strategies and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
This role is part of Agoda's Performance Marketing team, focusing on data-driven marketing programs to improve customer lifetime value. Responsibilities include experimenting with campaign structures and bidding strategies on search engines and partners, modeling data to understand demand elasticity and campaign impact, and building dashboards to track performance and derive insights. The position requires a quantitative background and experience with data analysis tools.
This role is part of the B2B Digital Marketing team within Agoda's B2B Marketing organization. The team delivers scalable marketing campaigns for partners across B2B2C channels, focusing on operational excellence and growth impact. The Analyst will work closely with Commercial, Product, Data, and regional Marketing teams to execute campaigns, measure performance, and provide data-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include experimenting with ad structures and bidding strategies on platforms like Google and Bing, modeling data to understand campaign impacts, and building dashboards to track performance and derive insights. Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative subject and have 2+ years of experience in data analysis from top-tier consulting, investment banking, or strategy roles within a fast-growing global tech company. Proficiency in data analysis packages such as SAS, R, SPSS, Python, VBA, SQL, and visualization tools like Tableau or Power BI is required. The role demands the ability to make decisions based on objective evidence, strong organizational skills, and the capacity to work independently.
This role is part of the Performance Marketing department at Agoda, focusing on data-driven marketing programs to improve customer lifetime value. The position involves analyzing vast amounts of data to optimize campaign performance and develop predictive models. Responsibilities include experimentation with advertising structures and bidding strategies on various search engines, modeling demand elasticity, and building dashboards to track performance and derive insights. The role requires collaboration with product teams to implement roadmaps and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
This role involves building and optimizing backend office tools for the Supply team to handle operational work. The specialist will identify and resolve operational issues, turning recurring problems into lasting process or tool fixes. The position requires optimizing workflows and collaboration with cross-functional departments to improve work movement between teams and markets. The role also entails designing and developing reporting, lists, and workflows for internal use using tools like Power Apps, Power Automate, SQL, and Python. Additionally, the specialist will drive end-to-end project initiatives from initial idea through final launch, taking ownership of outcomes and timelines.
Job Description * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize business opportunities that can be addressed through data-driven solutions * Extract insights from large and complex datasets using a variety of tools and techniques * Develop and deploy predictive models and algorithms using statistical AI/machine learning, deep learning and generative AI modeling * Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and compelling manner * Implement data-driven solutions in various environments, including integration with existing systems and processes * Stay up to date on the latest development in data science and bring new idea and technology to the team * Monitor the performance of deployed models together with algorithms and continuously improve model accuracy over time Qualifications * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in data science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field * 4+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, with a focus on industries * Descriptive Analytics * Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics (Machine learning, Forecasting, Optimization, choosing the best path) * Strong programming skills in Python and SQL along with libraries and frameworks for machine learning and statistical test, and their variation among databases * Experience with statistical and machine learning techniques * Proficiency in optimizing large, complicated SQL statements and code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial, SVN or others * Experience with data visualization tools such as Looker Studio, Tableau, and Power BI * Strong problem-solving and communication skills * Experience with Cloud technology and databases (Cloud AWS, Azure, GCP) * Extensive knowledge of Customer relationship management, Customer experience, Next best action, Credit scoring, and Insight & pattern discovery
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get To Know Our Team:** The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of the employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family. **The Opportunity:** As a senior member of our high-performing Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, you will play a critical role in driving payroll excellence, governance, and transformation across our international payroll operations. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Senior Partner will have end-to-end ownership of payroll operations for assigned countries or regions, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll delivery. In addition to managing complex payroll operations, you will act as a subject-matter expert, support strategic payroll initiatives, lead process improvements and transformation projects, and provide guidance to Payroll Partners within the team. You will partner closely with People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, People Systems, and external payroll vendors to strengthen controls, improve employee experience, and build scalable global payroll processes. **What You’ll Do:** * Own end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned countries or regions, ensuring payroll is processed accurately, on time, and in compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements. * Lead monthly payroll activities, including validation of payroll inputs and outputs, variance analysis, statutory payments, funding requirements, and payroll sign-off. * Manage complex payroll accounting activities, including payroll GL reconciliation, payroll funding reconciliation, vendor invoice validation, accruals, and issue resolution. * Act as the primary payroll subject-matter expert and escalation point for complex payroll, compliance, accounting, and employee-related matters. * Manage and govern payroll vendors against contractual obligations, SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, and regulatory requirements, driving corrective actions where necessary. * Build strong relationships with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are identified and resolved proactively. * Lead payroll implementations, migrations, integrations, vendor transitions, system upgrades, and new-country payroll setups while ensuring operational continuity and minimal employee impact. * Partner with People Systems, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Rewards, HR Operations, and other People teams to design and implement scalable payroll processes, controls, and policies. * Lead payroll readiness activities for new entities, acquisitions, reorganizations, legal entity changes, and other business transformation initiatives. * Identify payroll compliance risks and work with relevant stakeholders to implement appropriate mitigation and controls. * Own and drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and operational excellence initiatives across assigned payrolls. * Perform detailed payroll analytics, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and variance reviews to identify risks and opportunities for improvement. * Support payroll forecasting, budgeting, cash-flow planning, and funding requirements in partnership with Finance and Treasury. * Lead and support internal, external, statutory, and SOX audits, ensuring documentation, controls, and remediation actions are completed within agreed timelines. * Develop and maintain payroll SOPs, controls, process documentation, governance frameworks, and operational dashboards. * Provide guidance, coaching, and day-to-day support to Payroll Partners, helping build payroll capability and knowledge across the team. * Support the Payroll Manager with operational governance, workload prioritization, risk management, stakeholder updates, and strategic payroll initiatives. * Represent Payroll in cross-functional projects and forums and effectively communicate payroll risks, decisions, and recommendations to senior stakeholders. * Drive a strong employee-focused payroll experience by ensuring payroll inquiries and escalations are handled professionally, accurately, and within agreed service levels. **Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. * At least 5–7 years of end-to-end payroll and/or payroll accounting experience, preferably within a large, international, fast-paced organization. * Strong experience managing multi-country payroll across APAC, Europe, NAM, or multiple international regions. * Strong knowledge of payroll operations, payroll accounting, statutory compliance, taxation, social security, payroll controls, and payroll funding processes. * Proven experience independently managing complex payrolls and resolving payroll, compliance, vendor, and employee escalations. * Demonstrated experience leading payroll migrations, implementations, integrations, vendor transitions, legal entity changes, or transformation projects. * Strong payroll vendor management experience, including SLA/KPI governance, performance management, issue escalation, and service improvement. * Proven ability to lead process improvement, standardization, automation, and control enhancement initiatives. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to perform payroll variance analysis, root-cause analysis, and identify operational risks. * Good understanding of payroll accounting, GL reconciliation, accruals, payroll funding, vendor invoices, forecasting, and budgeting. * Experience supporting internal/external audits and working within a strong governance and controls environment. * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Technology, and external partners. * Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex payroll topics clearly to both operational and senior stakeholders. * Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other productivity tools. * Experience with Workday and global payroll platforms is preferred. * Experience with payroll analytics, automation, reporting tools, or Power BI would be an advantage. * Ability to coach and support junior team members and contribute to building a high-performing payroll team. * Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities and payroll deadlines simultaneously. * Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, multicultural, and continuously evolving global environment. * Demonstrates resilience, ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to remain effective under pressure. * Maintains a high level of discretion, confidentiality, integrity, and professional ethics.
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get to know our team:** The Marketing team at Agoda is highly data-driven and focused on developing at-scale, measurable marketing programs designed to improve the lifetime value of Agoda customers. The team combines a blend of the best analysts, marketing strategists and data scientists, collectively building a team that thrives on data, creative ideas and technology. . The Marketing leadership fosters a great learning environment, providing the opportunity to learn and grow by working closely with experts from a diverse variety of backgrounds from across the globe. Due to continued expansion, **there are multiple analyst roles within the marketing team across different marketing channels. While the scope will vary depending on these channels, here are some examples:** * Experimentation and optimizing campaign performance: Experiment with ads/campaign structures and bidding& pricing strategies on partners such as Google, Bing, Tripadvisor, Trivago and other search engines. Adapt to new product features and roll out changes from successful tests. * Modeling: Analyze vast amounts of data generated by experiments, develop predictive models using data science techniques (eg. understanding impact on bookings from large scale TV campaigns or demand elasticity from pricing optimization) and liaise with product teams on implementation roadmap * Reporting, analysis and insights: Building dashboards to track performance, derive insights, understand growth levers and communicate recommendations via presentations to stakeholders **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * Bachelor’s degree or higher from top university in a quantitative subject (computer science, mathematics, engineering business or science) * Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English * 2+ years experience in data crunching from top-tier consulting, investment banking, private equity or strategy/business for a fast-growing globaltech company * Experience in one or more data analysis packages or databases, eg., SAS, R, SPSS, Python, VBA, SQL and visualization tools, eg. Tableau, Power BI * Ability to move fast and be efficient, making decisions on objective evidence rather than subjective gut feel * Innate desire to take ownership, make an impact and influence outcomes * Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to work independently **It’s great if you have:** * Experience in digital marketing or ecommerce * Experience with A/B testing and other testing metrics * Strong presentation and negotiation skills * Skills that foster collaboration and team spirit #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi #NewYorkCity #Nigeria #London #Hyderabad #Pune #Mumbai #Colombia #Paris #Jakarta #Chennai #SanFrancisco #WashingtonDC #Toronto #Pakistan #LosAngeles #Dallas #Chicago #Kenya #Boston #Shanghai #Egypt #BuenosAires #Manila #Netherlands #Singapore #Rio de Janeiro #Beijing #Atlanta #Sydney #Madrid #Vietnam #SaudiArabia #Peru #Melbourne #Ireland #Russia #Bangladesh #MexicoCity #Philadelphia #Chile #SeattleArea #Noida #Kolkata #Guangdong #UnitedArabEmirates #TelAvivDistrict #Houston #Kuala Lumpur #Belo Horizonte #South Korea #Bangkok #Istanbul #Austin #Curitiba #Warsaw #Campinas #Barcelona #Ukraine #Costa Rica #Berlin #Romania #Denver #Johannesburg #Minneapolis #Manchester #Miami #Phoenix #Detroit #Coimbatore #Milan #Porto Alegre #Vancouver #Montreal #Charlotte #San Diego #Ghana #Salt Lake City #Raleigh #Hong Kong #Munich #Prague #Ecuador #Tampa Bay #Tokyo #Serbia #Lithuania #Taipei #Cracow #Zhejiang #Cape Town #Brasilia #Columbus #Ahmedabad #Indore #Kochi #Gurgaon #Chandigarh #Lucknow #Bhubaneswar #Thiruvananthapuram #Visakhapatnam #Bhopal #Jersey City #Irving #Denton #Worcester #Arlington #Overland Park #Aurora District #Baltimore #Tampa #Halethorpe #Dayton #Syracuse #Chonburi #Chiang Mai #Nakhon Ratchasima #Khon Kaen #Hat Yai #Phuket #Surabaya #Tangerang #Birmingham #Casablanca #Rabat #Camp #Petaling Jaya #George Town
Medtronic is hiring a Channel Operations Spec (Technical Service Channel Specialist) based in Bangkok, Thailand, on a full-time basis. The role supports service channel operations across SEA/APAC, coordinating with service providers and channel partners, managing installation base data, supporting process training, and ensuring accurate documentation and reporting. The position acts as a liaison between Medtronic, service providers, and channel partners to ensure consistent service delivery and governance. The role requires a bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field, plus 3+ years of experience in channel, service, or commercial operations or vendor management. Candidates need advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, strong analytical and stakeholder management abilities, and the capacity to work independently in a regional, cross-functional environment. Experience with Power BI, SAP, or healthcare/medical devices is preferred.