Full-Time Director of Global Payroll Services

Job Overview:We have an opening for a Director of Global Payroll Services who will oversee and optimize our organization’s payroll processes.As the Director of Global Payroll Services, you will lead and mentor the global payroll delivery team, collaborate with key internal stakeholders, and manage external service providers to ensure that payroll is processed smoothly and accurately for the over 40,000 employees across the organization in the Americas, APAC and EMEA.The role requires high-energy, strong leadership, outstanding communication skills, forward-thinking, and ability to partner effectively across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead global 20-person payroll team with regional managers for compliant and timely processing of payroll for 40,000 global employees.
• Partner with Finance, HR, IT, and payroll team to set a strategic direction for global payroll, time keeping, and attendance systems.
• Collaborate with Finance, IT, consultants, and cross-functional team leaders for timely and successful delivery of global projects.
• Provide leadership for the payroll delivery as we undertake the implementation of a new payroll system (ADP Celergo) in Europe.
• Ensure development of a high-performing, service-oriented team with a focus on technology-focused process improvement and compliance with Federal, State, and other jurisdictions tax and labor law requirements.
• Serve as a key partner for our stakeholders and payroll-managed service providers, using the latest technologies, such as Workday HR, Dayforce, and ADP Payroll Suites, to improve and streamline our processes.
• Lead efforts to ensure that payroll is done correctly, efficiently, and on time and that we comply with each country’s relevant payroll and regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for payroll audits to comply with SOX and local country-specific requirements.

Qualification and Skills:

• 15+ years of global payroll processing and management experience, experience in global expansion and setup, M&A integration, and vendor management.
• Technical and working knowledge of global payroll accounting rules and standards.
• Experience with ADP GlobalView, ADP Celergo, Dayforce, and other leading payroll systems, business process outsourcing, and stakeholder management.
• Strong change management skills with an ability to manage internal stakeholders to ensure payroll operations are compliant while meeting business objectives.
• Advanced working knowledge of global payroll operations, including regulations, taxes, C&B, and equity reporting.
• High degree of understanding of time keeping and attendance processes and payroll operations.
• Thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, and excels in highly complex situations with flexibility, creativity, efficiency, and prioritization.
• Strong leadership skills in building high-performing teams with mentorship driven team development.
• Bachelor’s degree with a focus on accounting, or business-related field preferred.
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation preferred.

Compensation & Benefits Details

An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.

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