AVP, Global Head of Payroll

The Head of Global Payroll is a new position that will report to the Head of Global HR Operations and sit on the HR Operations Leadership Team. The Head of Global Payroll will be based at one of our major U.S. sites. About HR Operations   HR Operations is the engine room   of   the employee   experience. We own the systems, processes, and service delivery that make employment   work day   to day — payroll, time and attendance, employee data, HR service and case management, and the controls and compliance that sit beneath all of it. We serve every employee in every country, and we   are measured on   accuracy, timeliness, compliance, and the quality of the experience we deliver.   We are also central to the broader HR transformation. As HR shifts toward more strategic, consultative work with the business, that shift only holds if the operational foundation is simplified, standardized, digitized, and increasingly automated. Our mandate is to   consolidate   fragmented systems and processes into a coherent global platform, and replace manual effort with intelligent automation . Payroll is the most visible and least forgiving part of that mandate — and one of the largest opportunities within it.   Role summary   The Global Head of Payroll owns end- to -end payroll delivery across all regions, ensuring every employee is paid accurately, on time, and in compliance with local law. In parallel, this leader serves as the business owner of our global payroll and time tracking consolidation program, driving the move to a harmonized operating model, technology stack, and control framework.   The role is both operator and transformation leader: steady-state excellence today, a simplified and increasingly automated global platform tomorrow.   It requires genuine fluency in AI and automation, applied to how payroll   actually runs   — not as a concept, but as delivered efficiency, accuracy, and control.

Global payroll operations   Own day-to-day payroll execution across all countries, including off-cycles, terminations, equity and incentive payments, and year-end processing.   Establish and   monitor   global service standards — accuracy, timeliness, cost per   payslip , and issue resolution — with clear regional accountability.   Ensure statutory compliance, tax filings, audit readiness, and SOX-aligned controls in every   jurisdiction ; serve as escalation point for regulators, auditors, and   works   councils where applicable.   Manage payroll vendors and managed-service providers, including contracts, SLAs, governance cadence, and commercial performance.   Partner closely with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Total Rewards, and HR Technology on funding, accounting, reporting, and data integrity.   Global payroll and time tracking consolidation   Lead the consolidation program from design through deployment — country waves, vendor selection and transition, process standardization, and change management.   Define the target operating model and global process taxonomy; reduce local variation while respecting genuine statutory requirements.   Own program governance: scope, budget, risks, dependencies, and executive reporting to HR and Finance leadership.   Drive adoption of   consolidated   time tracking, including integration to payroll, scheduling, and labor cost reporting.   AI, automation, and continuous improvement   Set the vision and roadmap for AI and automation in payroll,   identifying   where intelligent automation, workflow tooling, and AI-assisted review reduce manual effort and error rates.   Deploy automation across high-volume, rules-based work — data validation, reconciliations, off-cycle handling, gross-to-net checks, ticket triage, and case deflection through self-service and AI assistants.   Use AI-enabled anomaly detection and predictive controls to surface errors before   pay , shifting the function from detection to