Head of North America Payroll

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of people management with a focus on fostering an environment where employees are engaged to do their best work.
• Oversee end-to-end payroll delivery for the United States and Canada, including payroll results, reconciliations, funding, employee payments, tax and statutory obligations, year-end activities, and complex exceptions.
• Design, implement, document, and sustain a strong payroll risk and control framework, including preventive and detective controls, segregation of duties, approvals, access governance, reconciliations, exception reporting, evidence retention, and periodic control-effectiveness reviews.
• Lead remediation of control deficiencies, audit findings, compliance gaps, payroll errors, and recurring process failures; identify root causes, establish corrective actions, and escalate material risks promptly.
• Define and execute the North America payroll transformation roadmap, including operating-model redesign, process simplification, standardization, automation, technology enablement, data-quality improvement, and reduction of manual work and key-person dependencies.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 10-15 years of relevant payroll experience, including significant leadership responsibility for complex United States and Canadian payroll operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and build high-performing teams and cultures within the region and across a global organization.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and managing a highly effective payroll risk and control environment, including audit support and sustainable remediation.
• Demonstrated success transforming payroll operations through process redesign, standardization, automation, technology implementation, vendor change, or operating-model improvement.
• Strong knowledge of US and Canadian payroll operations, payroll tax, statutory reporting, year-end requirements, employee payments, reconciliations, and vendor governance.