Director Global Payroll

About this role

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a global payroll strategy, focusing on process innovation, integrations, and automation.
• Oversee regional payroll leads across the U.S., Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and APAC to ensure global consistency, standard operating procedures (SOPs), local compliance, and internal financial controls.
• Lead a global team of approximately 22 payroll professionals, fostering a culture of trust, teamwork, confidentiality, and employee growth.
• Manage relationships with global payroll aggregators (e.g., TMF, Deel/ActivPayroll) and in-country providers.
• Drive payroll process optimization, leveraging Workday as the primary source of record to reduce manual data manipulation.