Program Manager, International Payroll Implementation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall program management of global payroll implementations and country rollouts, from initial planning through go-live, stabilization, and transition to ongoing operations.
• Apply a consistent global implementation approach across country rollouts while coordinating country-specific payroll requirements, local stakeholders, vendors, dependencies, and readiness considerations.
• Establish and manage a repeatable implementation methodology, including templates, governance routines, readiness criteria, escalation paths, and post-implementation lessons learned.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans that capture payroll-impacting milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, risks, decision points, and critical paths across all relevant workstreams.
• Coordinate payroll-impacting dependencies across Legal, HR, Benefits, Finance, IT, Payroll, Treasury, local business stakeholders, and external implementation partners.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Finance, Operations, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional projects or programs, including demonstrated experience managing global or multi-country payroll implementations across countries with differing payroll, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-workstream initiatives with interdependent deliverables, competing priorities, external vendors, and senior stakeholder groups.
• Working knowledge of the end-to-end payroll lifecycle and the upstream and downstream processes that affect payroll, including HR data, employment terms, working time, leave, benefits, integrations, banking and payment processes, and statutory employer requirements.
• Experience working with or supporting implementations involving global payroll platforms, time and attendance platforms, HRIS/HCM systems, and related integrations.