Coordinator, Payroll
Firm Summary
White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.
With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.
It’s not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.
Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.
With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.
It’s not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.
Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.
Position Summary
The Coordinator, Payroll is responsible for employee payroll processing, including expatriates and consultants. Responsibilities include salary calculations, data audits, system updates, record maintenance, and coordination with HR, Benefits, and Accounting. Also handles inquiries, reporting, and data integration across systems.
Our Functional Area
The Global Finance team is led by the Firm’s CFO, Steve Wrede, and is made up of approximately 280 team members around the world. Committed to our 2020 strategy for profitable growth, our core functions include billing and collecting Firm invoices, statutory accounting for the Firm and for individual offices, creating and distributing management reports, processing payments to vendors or reimbursements to employees and managing payroll for our people. Together, we work seamlessly across our network of offices and countries where we operate. Ours is a multicultural and supportive team, where everyone’s contribution is welcome and where we share a mutual ambition to achieve our goals and take the Firm from strength to strength.
Our team’s remit includes partner compensation and the maintenance of partner equity accounts; strategic procurement of vendor services; global tax strategies; inventory management, and finally analysis of the profitability of clients, matters and groups of timekeeper. We work with partners and with other business services groups to establish hourly billing rates as well as client-specific fee arrangements. Our Treasury team is responsible for global cash management, foreign currencies and hedging.
In consultation with Firm leaders, we set annual global revenue and expense budgets across Regional Sections and offices, including legal and business service departments. The team continuously reviews expenditures throughout the year to ensure that the Firm’s resources are being used efficiently.
Duties and Accountabilities1
Perform the full range of payroll processing activities as outlined below:
- Process payroll for employees in the U.S. including expatriates on split pay and consultants in the local offices.
- Review overtime schedules prepared by Team and upload to database.
- Calculate pro-rated salary for new hires, terminations and employees on leave.
- Maintain files for employee banking, tax forms and payroll backup information.
- Audit data changes in payroll output report, research system errors and make corrections as needed in Payroll database.
- Review payroll status reports in addition to scheduled and retroactive payroll deductions. Communicate with HR and Benefits Department as required.
- Respond to payroll inquiries from Office Administrators and other Department Managers.
- Run data bridge file to import and export data between the HR, Payroll, and Benefit Administrators.
- Prepare the payroll funding schedule for Treasury and distribute payroll reports to Accounting and Pension Coordinator.
- Other reasonable duties as the business requires.
Qualifications
- 2 or more years’ experience in payroll processing for companies based in the U.S.A.
- Highly proficient in MS Excel, Word, and Outlook (Excel pivot and VLOOKUP is a must).
- Experience in ADP systems including Vantage HCM, iReports, ADP Reporting, and ADP GL a plus
- Good written and verbal skills, ability to communicate and articulate payroll procedures to management.
- Applicants must be able to work well alone and as part of a team, have strong ethics, a high level of personal and professional integrity.
- Overtime may be required during payroll processing weeks in addition to quarterly and year-end deadlines with little or no advanced notice.
- Accounting background a plus.
- Kronos – Time & Attendance System a plus
Location & Reporting
- This role reports to the Assistant Manager, Accounting based in Manila
- Based in the Global Operations Center, Manila.
1The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.
Primary Location: Philippines-Manila
Expected Workplace: Hybrid
Job Posting: Jun 9, 2025, 4:50:18 AM