Manager – Global Payroll & Rewards

Overview

The organization is seeking an experienced, commercially minded Manager to join the Global Payroll and Rewards team. This role involves working at the intersection of payroll, compensation, equity, employment tax, technology, and workforce transformation.

In this position, you will help multinational organizations design, manage, and operate complex global rewards programs. You will leverage the organization’s technology platform and collaborate with global specialists, local payroll professionals, and technology teams to deliver solutions that simplify global workforce challenges.

Responsibilities

• Client leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact for multiple global clients, building relationships and delivering service across payroll, compensation, rewards, and workforce transformation engagements.
• Global payroll and rewards delivery: Manage and oversee end-to-end global payroll and rewards processes, ensuring high-quality delivery, adherence to KPIs and SLAs, and a consistent client experience across jurisdictions.
• Advisory and transformation: Support clients in improving payroll, compensation, and rewards operating models by identifying opportunities to enhance governance, controls, efficiency, automation, and compliance.
• Technology-enabled solutions: Use the organization’s technology platform and related tools to streamline processes, improve data quality, enhance reporting, and create scalable delivery solutions.
• Data analytics and insights: Analyze payroll, compensation, and rewards data to provide meaningful analytics and business insights that support clients’ workforce and rewards decisions.
• Risk management and compliance: Proactively identify and manage payroll, compensation, employment tax, and regulatory risks; support year-end reporting, governance activities, and compliance requirements.
• Stakeholder and vendor management: Coordinate with internal teams, clients, payroll providers, equity vendors, and third-party partners to ensure seamless delivery of integrated global rewards solutions.
• Project management: Lead client implementations, transitions, and transformational initiatives, ensuring successful execution, effective change management, and delivery against agreed objectives.
• Innovation and continuous improvement: Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and process optimization; contribute to the ongoing evolution of the rewards practice.
• Team leadership and development: Coach, mentor, and develop junior team members across a global delivery model, fostering collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Experience leading and delivering global payroll and/or rewards engagements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery against KPIs and SLAs.
• Experience providing advisory support related to payroll, compensation, rewards, governance, controls, efficiency, automation, and compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including working with clients, internal teams, payroll providers, vendors, and third-party partners.
• Proven project management experience, including leading implementations, transitions, and transformational initiatives with effective change management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using technology platforms to streamline payroll and rewards operations, improve data quality, and enhance reporting.
• Data analytics experience using payroll, compensation, and rewards data to produce actionable insights.
• Leadership experience coaching and developing junior team members within a global delivery model.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation range: $120,000–160,000

Location

• Hybrid or remote depending on location.

Additional Information

• Equal opportunity employer; does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status.
• Please note that AI is used as part of the application process.