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THE OPPORTUNITY
Title: Senior Director, Global Payroll
Location: Europe (remote)
Job Summary
Iron Mountain is seeking a motivated Senior Director, Global Payroll to join our Global HR team.
In this role, you will be responsible for providing strategic direction, leadership, and expertise for Global Payroll at Iron Mountain, covering 30,000 employees in 56 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and North America.
Reporting directly to the Vice President of HR Service Delivery, you will serve as a key transformation agent leveraging artificial intelligence and automation to drive change, optimize operational payroll leadership, and deliver results in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you will:
Global Payroll Transformation: Create and influence the next phase of the Global Payroll and Time transformation roadmap, driving digital transformation by deploying Artificial Intelligence agents, Robotic Process Automation, and live Middleware Application Programming Interface integrations to build an exception-free payroll ecosystem.
Compliance & Corporate Policy Governance: Formulate and enforce global payroll policies, maintaining strict accuracy of financial information while ensuring unwavering compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) frameworks, regional data residency laws (such as General Data Protection Regulation, Personal Data Protection Act, and Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados), and stringent digital tax mandates.
Total Rewards Integration & Alignment: Partner closely with Global Benefits, Total Rewards, Finance, Treasury, and Legal teams to design and maintain robust, integrated end-to-end data flows across global benefits, equity, and allowances while overseeing the payroll integration of new business Mergers and Acquisitions.
Vendor Ecosystem Consolidation & Management: Oversee the final phase of a multi-year effort to transition remaining countries into a single outsourcing vendor solution (Strada), managing performance to deliver exceptional services.
Leadership & Team Upskilling: Lead, coach, and reskill the global Iron Mountain Payroll delivery team, shifting traditional operational staff to focus on process management, data analysis, and continuous improvement across remote, cross-cultural, and matrixed lines.
What You’ll Bring
The ideal candidate will have:
Extensive leadership experience in global payroll, with proven accountability for managing payroll operations across a complex, multi-national footprint spanning 25+ countries.
Strong knowledge of global payroll regulatory environments, digital compliance mandates, international tax treatments, worker classification guidelines (e.g., IR35, European Union directives), and payroll financial accounting.
Proven track record of spearheading large-scale global payroll transformations, specifically establishing and leading new capabilities within a Global Payroll Center of Excellence (COE).
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Accounting or similar equivalent.
A professional Payroll Certification designation is required.
Outstanding executive presence with the ability to translate technical compliance risk into strategic financial intelligence for management.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation and benefits aligned with experience.
Strategic Global Impact: The opportunity to spearhead a large-scale digital transformation that directly impacts 30,000 employees across 56 countries, shaping the future of global service delivery at Iron Mountain.
Innovation & Influence: A high-visibility platform to architect next-generation payroll solutions by deploying cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence and automation, establishing you as a key change agent within our global organization.
Flexible work options/alternative work options to support work–life balance.
Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.
If you are a visionary leader ready to shape the future of global payroll through technology and innovation, we invite you to take the next step in your career. Apply today to join our mission at Iron Mountain!
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Category: Human ResourcesSkills Required
- Extensive leadership experience managing global payroll operations across 25+ countries.
- Strong knowledge of global payroll regulatory environments, digital compliance mandates, international tax treatments, worker classification guidelines (e.g., IR35, EU directives), and payroll financial accounting.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale global payroll transformations and establishing a Global Payroll Center of Excellence (COE).
- Experience deploying Artificial Intelligence agents, Robotic Process Automation, and Middleware API integrations in payroll transformation initiatives.
- Experience overseeing vendor consolidation and managing outsourced payroll vendors (e.g., Strada).
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent.
- Professional Payroll Certification designation.
- Outstanding executive presence with ability to translate technical compliance risk into strategic financial intelligence for management.
- Leadership experience coaching and reskilling global payroll teams across remote, cross-cultural, matrixed environments.
Iron Mountain Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Iron Mountain and has not been reviewed or approved by Iron Mountain.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Inclusive, modern offerings are emphasized, including support for mental health, gender‑affirming care (with travel/lodging where needed), and family‑planning benefits. Recognition for disability inclusion is also highlighted, which aligns with accessible benefits and leave support.
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Retirement Support — A formal 401(k) program is described with automatic enrollment and a clear employer match structure, with immediate vesting referenced in the materials. Access to supporting infrastructure and guidance is noted through dedicated benefits portals and administrators.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple national medical plan options are outlined, along with care navigation, virtual primary care, and pharmacy coverage. Additional wellbeing support is described via EAP services and structured wellbeing programming.
Iron Mountain Insights
What We Do
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 220,000 organizations around the world, Iron Mountain boasts a real estate network of more than 80 million square feet across more than 1,350 facilities in 45 countries dedicated to protecting and preserving what matters most for its customers. Iron Mountain’s solutions portfolio includes records management, data management, document management, data centers, art storage and logistics, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including critical business documents, electronic information, medical data and cultural and historical artifacts.
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