Director, Payroll
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Do you have a passion for Payroll? Do you have a desire to craft strategy and build scalable processes? The Payroll Director is a hands-on leader for Americas payroll operations (including the U.S., Canada, and Latin America) within finance. The Director will develop the overall strategic vision for global payroll, driving automation, standardization, and serving as lead contact for our vendors and our cross-functional teams for payroll processes. Join us and enjoy working in a dynamic environment!
What You Will Be Doing:
- Leading a distributed team for payroll operations, including payroll processing, payroll tax compliance, and inquiry management.
- Developing and leading the global payroll strategy and roadmap. Interlock the roadmap with cross-functional partner teams, IT, vendors, and budget planning.
- Leading/representing the team through new processes or projects (e.g. implementation of ESPP and the related impact to payroll, integration between systems, etc). The ability to think end-to-end on process changes is essential!
- Developing KPIs and relevant metrics to supervise performance and inspire change within the organization.
- Preparing quarterly business reviews and addressing senior leadership.
- Reviewing existing and crafting new processes for scale and automation, balanced with the need for accuracy and compliance.
- Point of escalation for questions, issues, or concerns from across the business and senior leadership.
- Staying ahead of global regulatory requirements and ensure Elastic is positioned for compliance.
- Standardizing documentation and procedures/process globally and ensure SOX compliant payroll policies and documentation are in place.
What You Bring:
- 12+ years in payroll in a public, global company environment.
- U.S. Workday payroll experience required. Familiarity with Ceridian and TMF a plus.
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation.
- Basic accounting knowledge and SOX experience.
- Deep knowledge of U.S. federal, state and local payroll regulations, including payroll tax, reporting and required filings.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to:
- Partner and influence for the best collective outcome with cross-functional teams at all levels, including senior leadership.
- Assess risk and communicate proactively.
- Take the complicated or convoluted and keep it simple and scalable.
- Direct a team in a rapidly growing and fast-paced environment.
- Scale processes from manual to automated.
- Think strategically and plan operationally; capable and willing to be hands-on but also sees the big picture.
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We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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