Senior Director, Global Payroll Operations
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JobgetherGlobal payroll
Remote opportunity open to candidates residing anywhere in the United StatesFull-TimeDirector
SalaryAnnual base salary: $164,900–$356,100, depending on experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Incentive compensation: Eligibility for commissions or incentive compensation, depending on the role's compensation structure.
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 15 years of progressive experience in global payroll and time management, including a minimum of seven years leading multi-country operations, transformation initiatives, compliance, and senior-level teams.
- Required Skills
- Artificial IntelligenceTime Management
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
- PMP certification is required.
- At least 15 years of progressive experience in global payroll and time management.
- At least seven years leading multi-country operations, transformation initiatives, compliance, and senior-level teams.
- Experience leading payroll and time operations in a large, complex multinational organization, including global transformation, multi-country vendor management, acquisitions or divestitures, and highly regulated environments.
- Demonstrated ability to set enterprise-wide payroll strategy and establish accountability across global, regional, and local teams.
- Expertise in operating-model design, service-delivery frameworks, governance structures, roadmaps, and decision rights.
- Experience leading organizational change, process standardization, platform implementations, vendor transitions, country deployments, and adoption initiatives.
- Strong commercial and vendor-management capabilities, including service levels, contract negotiations, sourcing models, and provider accountability.
- Experience building culturally diverse global teams and developing future leaders.
- Experience developing or overseeing business-continuity, disaster-recovery, escalation, and recovery procedures.
- Practical knowledge of artificial intelligence, automation, and emerging technologies.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% for business.
- A master's degree is preferred; shared-services or outsourced-delivery experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the global payroll and time-management strategy, operating model, governance framework, and transformation roadmap.
- Oversee end-to-end payroll and time operations across multiple countries, driving accurate, timely, compliant service delivery and continuous improvement.
- Advise senior leadership on payroll strategy, operational performance, compliance, technology, and investment priorities.
- Partner with Human Resources, Finance, Tax, Legal, Technology, Audit, Procurement, and business functions.
- Oversee global payroll compliance, tax administration, statutory reporting, internal controls, and audit readiness; identify and mitigate risks.
- Establish decision rights, performance metrics, escalation procedures, and accountability frameworks across global, regional, and local teams.
- Lead payroll-provider, time-management-vendor, technology-partner, and managed-service-provider relationships, including service levels, contracts, and performance.
- Sponsor process standardization, platform implementations, automation, vendor transitions, and operating-model redesign.
- Build and develop a high-performing global team, strengthen leadership capabilities, and support succession planning.
- Ensure business-continuity, disaster-recovery, escalation, and recovery plans address payroll disruptions.
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