Senior Payroll Specialist

As a Senior Payroll Specialist on the Global Payroll team you'll lead biweekly payroll processing for all U.S. salaried and hourly employees. The Global Payroll team manages end-to-end payroll operations across five continents partnering with HR Finance Accounting and Legal to deliver accurate compliant and scalable payroll services. You'll own the full U.S. payroll cycle including equity-related payroll and serve as the go-to resource for resolving employee payroll inquiries with speed and precision.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end biweekly U.S. payroll processing for salaried and hourly employees including daily payroll cycles for non-qualified stock options.
• Execute payroll input compilation from multiple sources validating data for accuracy and completeness before each cycle.
• Drive timely resolution of employee payroll inquiries in Jira within SLA performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Partner with HR Finance and cross-functional teams to process employee changes in payroll and cross-check data accuracy.
• Lead timecard tracking and reconciliation to ensure alignment between timekeeping systems and payroll records.
• Support continuous process improvements by identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency gains in payroll workflows.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience with multi-state payroll processing experience with demonstrated expertise in federal state and local tax compliance.
• Proven experience processing payroll for employee populations that receive equity compensation including restricted stock units.
• Hands-on proficiency with payroll platforms (e.g. UKG Pro Workday HCM) and HRIS integrations in a high-volume environment.
• Track record of resolving complex payroll issues independently with documented root cause analysis and process improvement outcomes.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace Slack Atlassian tools (Jira) and Apple products for daily collaboration and case management.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency cost and quality.
• Fluency with cloud-native data environments (e.g. Snowflake Databricks BigQuery) and their metadata lineage and governance capabilities at scale.

Req ID: # P76974

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