The Technical Specialist provides Level 2 technical support and operational maintenance for hardware, infrastructure, and end-user computing environments. The role ensures the availability, stability, and security of IT infrastructure and workplace services across the organization. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware, software, and network incidents, supporting workplace technologies like endpoints and printers, and coordinating escalations with global teams. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields and 3-5 years of experience in IT Infrastructure, Hardware Support, or IT Operations.

This role serves as the regional focal point for employee assistance within the APAC region, leading the response to critical incidents such as security threats, travel disruptions, medical emergencies, evacuations, and employee fatalities. The position requires operational leadership and case coordination to ensure employees receive timely, compassionate, and compliant support during both routine operations and high-impact crisis events. You will act as the primary liaison between the Global Protection and Security (GP&S) team and key stakeholders, including Human Resources, Legal, and Crisis Management, to minimize organizational risk and support informed decision-making. The Employee Assistance Manager is responsible for overseeing complex employee assistance cases from initial notification through resolution while maintaining strict confidentiality of sensitive information. You will develop and maintain regional procedures and playbooks, conduct after-action reviews to incorporate lessons learned, and analyze program metrics to measure effectiveness and identify trends. This role involves preparing executive-level operational reports and supporting monthly and quarterly operational reviews to drive continuous improvement in employee support capabilities.

Agoda is seeking a commercially minded and highly motivated lawyer to navigate complex competition, regulatory, consumer, and disputes issues across APAC, Europe, and other key markets. This role is ideal for a competition lawyer, disputes specialist, or regulatory lawyer with competition experience who is eager to work on a broad range of matters within a fast-moving digital platform business with a global footprint. The successful candidate will support the business on competition and antitrust issues, regulatory inquiries, litigation, and dispute-resolution matters while managing legal risks and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The position requires sound legal judgment, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage complex multi-jurisdictional matters with a practical, business-oriented approach. The role involves advising business stakeholders on competition-law risks, supporting regulatory inquiries and dawn raids, managing contentious matters, and ensuring regulatory readiness. You will coordinate external counsel, develop case strategies, and work closely with Legal colleagues and stakeholders across Product, Supply, Marketing, and Finance. Additionally, you will contribute to training, compliance materials, and risk management strategies, helping the business move quickly while maintaining strong legal and compliance standards.

As a key member of our high-performing Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, you will play a vital role in shaping a world-class global payroll process that supports our employees across the globe. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Partner will oversee the timely and accurate processing of assigned international payroll transactions, ensuring strict compliance with local laws and regulations. In this Role, you’ll get to: * Responsible for monthly payroll activities such as collating and validating inputs, outputs, and statutory payments for assigned countries. * Coordinate with external payroll vendors to ensure timely and accurate payments and filing of taxes, social security funds, provident funds, and other third-party payments to government authorities. * Manage payroll vendors by strictly adhering to the contract and SLA and ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements. * Manage inquiries relating to payroll matters from internal and external stakeholders, and provide advice as required. * Participate and support ad-hoc projects relating to new process implementations or enhancements and perform user testing on systems. * Lead and support payroll migration and integration initiatives, including vendor transitions, system upgrades, and process harmonization with minimal disruption. * Collaborate with internal People teams and external partners to set up processes, procedures, and policies for new payroll systems or countries. * Support external and internal audits. * Own and drive process improvement initiatives for respective assigned countries. What you’ll Need to Succeed: * Holds a Bachelor’s degree in any field. * At least 2 years of People Operations or end-to-end Payroll experience in an international fast-paced organization. * Experienced in managing APAC payroll. * Proven experience in payroll migration and integration projects, with a strong ability to manage complex transitions and ensure operational continuity. * Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Fluency in English is a must. * Strong analytical, articulation, and problem-solving skills, with great attention to detail. * Proven track record in process improvement and/or automation implementations. * Proficient in all MS products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. * Experience in Workday is preferred but not a must. * A team player who can operate effectively in a fast-paced and multicultural environment. * Resilience to work under tight deadlines and pressure. * High level of discretion, confidentiality, and ethics.

As a key member of the Global Payroll team in Bangkok, you will be responsible for overseeing the timely and accurate processing of international payroll transactions. You will ensure strict compliance with local laws and regulations while managing monthly payroll activities for assigned countries. This role involves coordinating with external vendors to handle tax filings and social security payments, as well as leading process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency. You will collaborate with internal People teams and external partners to establish procedures for new payroll systems and countries. Additionally, you will support external and internal audits, manage inquiries from stakeholders, and participate in ad-hoc projects related to system upgrades and process harmonization. This position offers the opportunity to drive significant improvements in payroll operations and support a diverse global workforce.

As a key member of the Global Payroll team in Bangkok, you will be responsible for overseeing the timely and accurate processing of international payroll transactions. You will ensure strict compliance with local laws and regulations while managing monthly payroll activities for assigned countries. This role involves coordinating with external vendors to handle tax filings and statutory payments, as well as leading process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency. You will collaborate closely with internal People teams and external partners to establish procedures for new systems and countries. Additionally, you will support payroll migration projects and vendor transitions, ensuring minimal disruption to operations. The role requires managing inquiries from stakeholders and participating in audits to maintain high standards of accuracy and compliance.

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.

As a key member of our high-performing Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, you will play a vital role in shaping a world-class global payroll process that supports our employees across the globe. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Accounting Analyst will oversee the timely and accurate processing of assigned international payroll transactions, ensuring strict compliance with local laws and regulations. What You'll Do: * Responsible for monthly payroll activities such as collating and validating inputs, outputs, and statutory payments for assigned countries. * Experienced in managing Payroll Accounting / GL reconciliation / Invoice processing for payroll vendor * Coordinate with external payroll vendors to ensure timely and accurate payments and filing of taxes, social security funds, provident funds, and other third-party payments to government authorities. * Manage payroll vendors by strictly adhering to the contract and SLA and ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements. * Manage inquiries relating to payroll matters from internal and external stakeholders, and provide advice as required. * Participate and support ad-hoc projects relating to new process implementations or enhancements and perform user testing on systems. * Lead and support payroll migration and integration initiatives, including vendor transitions, system upgrades, and process harmonization with minimal disruption. * Collaborate with internal People teams and external partners to set up processes, procedures, and policies for new payroll systems or countries. * Support external and internal audits. * Own and drive process improvement initiatives for respective assigned countries. * Payroll Forecasting & Budgeting knowledge. Required Qualifications: * Holds a Bachelor’s degree in any field. * At least 3 years of People Operations / Payroll accounting or end-to-end Payroll experience in an international fast-paced organization. * Experienced in managing APAC/ Europe / NAM payroll. * Proven experience in payroll migration , Payroll Implementation , Project and integration projects, with a strong ability to manage complex transitions and ensure operational continuity. * Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Fluency in English is a must. * Strong analytical, articulation, and problem-solving skills, with great attention to detail. * Proven track record in process improvement and/or automation implementations. * Proficient in all MS products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. * Experience in Workday is preferred but not a must. * A team player who can operate effectively in a fast-paced and multicultural environment. * Resilience to work under tight deadlines and pressure. * High level of discretion, confidentiality, and ethics.

The Data Center Engineering team drives the physical design of Google's data centers into the future. You will work on complex topics such as power usage, environmental sustainability, and state-of-the-art facility operations. This role requires a visionary approach to optimizing efficiency and driving continuous improvements. You will collaborate with senior executives and facilities technicians to implement infrastructure upgrades that have a significant impact. In this position, you will oversee data center projects from site due diligence through construction and operations. You will manage a comprehensive electrical scope, including power supply options, onsite generation, substation arrangements, and system resilience. You will partner with Architects and Engineers to drive technical design across multiple projects, ensuring all safety standards and Google requirements are met. You will also drive cross-disciplinary coordination for rapid construction and integrate the latest electrical technologies into infrastructure roadmaps.

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:** Strategy & Analytics is fast growing and dynamic team within Strategic Partnerships department of Agoda. Strategic Partnerships is a team of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda’s non-accommodation partners and promote Agoda’s top and bottom line growth. We design tailored business and product solutions with our partners and help them generate measurable value. Members of our team are empowered and supported to grow their market(s) or accounts. The Strategy & Analytics team’s scope includes profitability optimization, target setting, KPI management, data analytics and business strategy. *** This role is based in our Bangkok office with a hybrid setup (3 days in office per week). Relocation to Bangkok is required, and we will only consider applicants who are willing to relocate (Relocation support will be provided.)** **Key Areas of Focus:** **In this role, you’ll get to:** **Strategy**: Conduct analyses to identify growth opportunities and prioritize investment areas in APAC for Strategic Partnerships team based on analytical insights, industry trends, and changing competitive landscape. **Analytics**: Leverage data & tools to analyze SP performance and identify appropriate levers to improve performance. **Cross-functional projects**: Work with different teams inside SP (B2B, White Label, Affiliates, Financial Institutions, different markets across APAC, etc.) and outside of SP (product, marketing, supply, finance, etc.) to drive initiatives. **Performance management**: Maintain and optimize a performance management system for the department, including a large team of account managers **Data & tools**: Oversee SP data infrastructure to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. Design, manage, and oversee the maintenance of data tools to support decision making. **Performance reporting**: Preparing updates on business performance, proposals, and recommendations to senior management. **Pricing Experiments**: Optimize pricing strategy and make decisions based on A/B experiments. This is an Individual contributor role, reporting to Associate Director, Strategy & Analytics **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * **3+ years and above of total experience** with Consulting, Data Analytics, Strategy, Business Development, Business Intelligence, or other relevant fields. * Proven ability to leverage analytics and quantitative methods to break down ambiguous problems and come up with recommendations. * Growth mindset and excited to work on a variety of functional areas. * Entrepreneurial and not afraid to be hands-on on the work. * Experience working in a fast-paced and high growth environment. * Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written in English) with ability to work well across multiple stakeholders. **It’s Great if you have:** * Ability to write in SQL a plus, or willingness to learn * Ability to use Tableau a plus, or willingness to learn * Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics a plus #Analytics#LI-DN2 #Bangkok #Singapore #Bengaluru #Hyderabad #NewDelhi #Gurugram #Noida #Mumbai #Pune #Chennai #Jakarta #Manila #KualaLumpur #HoChiMinhCity #Hanoi #HongKong #Taipei #Seoul #Dubai #Istanbul #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **Equal Opportunity Employer** At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. 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