Global Payroll Transformation Senior Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE The Global Payroll Transformation Senior Manager is a key role that drives and supports global payroll initiatives across compliance, equity, mobility, and payroll-related projects. This position focuses on enhancing payroll processes, ensuring global compliance, and delivering continuous process improvements that improve the employee experience. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Global Payroll Transformation Senior Manager, you will identify root causes of operational challenges, collaborate cross-functionally to implement effective solutions, and evaluate systems, processes, and business requirements to optimize performance. You will also develop business cases, recommend strategic improvements, and lead the implementation of change initiatives across the global payroll function. Your responsibilities will include: - Representing Payroll as a key stakeholder in cross-functional initiatives impacting payroll operations - Leading and managing global payroll projects and cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment - Driving execution of payroll-related system implementations, enhancements, and third-party vendor integrations - Partnering with internal and external stakeholders to deliver projects on time, within scope, and aligned to business priorities - Developing and presenting business cases outlining cost, risk, service, and operational impact to support decision-making - Identifying, prioritizing, and implementing process improvements to enhance scalability, efficiency, and accuracy of payroll operations - Driving standardization of processes across regions, reducing reliance on manual interventions - Leading efforts to improve the employee and stakeholder experience related to payroll - Proactively identifying risks and implementing mitigation strategies to ensure audit readiness and operational integrity - Conducting root cause analysis on complex payroll issues and implementing sustainable solutions - Developing and delivering payroll metrics, reporting, and analytics to provide visibility into performance, risks, and trends - Helping build team capability and drive accountability, ownership, and continuous learning - Driving integration and optimization of payroll systems, including alignment with platforms such as Success Factors - Leading change management efforts related to payroll process, system enhancements, and organizational changes - Ensuring documentation of processes, controls, and procedures is comprehensive and up to date WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - A minimum of 10 years of progressive payroll experience, including leading global payroll projects and cross-functional initiatives in a complex, multinational environment - A proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, time-sensitive projects (e.g., system implementations, vendor transitions, process transformations) from planning through execution and stabilization - Demonstrated expertise in project management disciplines, including scope definition, timeline management, risk identification/mitigation, stakeholder alignment, and delivery against defined milestones - Experience managing concurrent global initiatives with competing priorities, ensuring alignment to business objectives and on-time delivery - Strong ability to operate across regions (NAM, EMEA, LATAM, APAC) with an understanding of regional dependencies, compliance considerations, and localization requirements - Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (HR, Finance, Legal, IT, external vendors) to drive alignment, remove blockers, and ensure successful execution - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience conducting root cause analysis and implementing sustainable, scalable solutions - Experience driving process standardization and transformation initiatives, reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency - Working knowledge of payroll systems, integrations