Who are we?

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Description

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 270+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.  

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

The payroll team serves as liaison to employees and with third party payroll vendors to ensure payroll processing accurately reflects company specific pay policies.

Responsibilities

Payroll Processing

• Reviews data feeds from HRSS
• Documents payroll processes and procedures
• Ensures all employees are set up in payroll system

Employee Support

• Assist to answer complex employee payroll inquires, escalating cases needed and acting as a resource to more senior Payroll Specialist

System Management  

• Verifies compliance with federal and state payroll requirements; stays current with changes in the law
• Reviews result and makes corrections to the system

Vendor Management

• Reviews and creates payroll file for transmission to vendor
• Responsible for managing the vendor(s) supporting. This includes negotiating contracts, staying abreast of system enhancements, submitting enhancement requests
   

What you will learn and grow

• Knowledge of Philippine Labor Laws & Tax Regulations (Understanding of SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG contributions, and BIR tax compliance)
• Payroll Processing Basics (Salary computation, overtime, deductions, and statutory benefits)
• Compliance & Reporting (Familiarity with government reporting requirements and deadlines)
   

Who you are:

• Final Year students or on track to graduate with Bachelor Business/Finance/Accounting in late 2026 till Mid 2027
• Residing in Metro Manila during internship period
• You have any prior experiences in payroll systems (SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle HCM)
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, formulas for payroll reconciliation.
• Understanding of General Ledger Posting and reading financial statements.
• Weekday work schedule

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability.  If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law. 

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