Director, Payroll - LAC

Visa; Bogotá; Sur place; COP 284 765 000 - 411 327 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Visa is seeking a senior payroll leader to manage and optimize Latin America and the Caribbean payroll operations across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. You will drive end-to-end payroll delivery, governance, and strategic projects, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency while partnering with senior leaders across People, Finance, Controllership, Legal, Tax, and M&A.

The role requires deep knowledge of regional payroll regulations, multi-country integration experience, and strong

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive payroll experience across multiple countries in a large multinational.
• Experience leading regional payroll strategy with cross-functional partners.
• Strong knowledge of payroll legislation and tax across LAC region.
• Proven leadership of payroll readiness and acquisitions integrations.

Responsabilités

• Lead regional payroll strategy and end-to-end delivery across LAC.
• Maintain payroll governance, controls, and audit readiness.
• Oversee payroll systems updates and regulatory changes.
• Collaborate with People Team, Finance, Legal, Tax, and M&A to align priorities.
• Lead and develop Colombia payroll capability and regional leadership.

Connaissances

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Payroll expertise

Regulatory knowledge

Change management

Analytics

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field

Description du poste

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

The role will lead and manage the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) payroll operations, by ensuring the execution of day-to-day payroll work and strategic projects of the department, drive process efficiencies and assist in integration projects, related to the company acquisitions and global initiatives. We are looking for a candidate that has strong skillsets in leadership, stakeholder and people management. Successful leadership ensures the full execution of the tasks promptly with no errors. The role will involve leading and managing the payroll teams across 3 locations (Brazil, Mexico and Colombia) and have frequent and regular interactions with cross-functional departments and senior management, throughout the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead regional payroll strategy, governance, and operational delivery across LAC. Ensure timely and accurate end-to-end payroll delivery, legislative compliance, and effective issue resolution across supported countries.
• Maintain strong payroll governance, internal controls, audit readiness, risk management, and remediation processes.
• Ensure payroll systems and processes accurately calculate and record pay, benefits, deductions, taxes, garnishments, time, and company liabilities.
• Confirm general ledger accuracy and pay-element mapping, protect confidential payroll data, and maintain compliant payroll policies and procedures.
• Oversee system testing for upgrades and legislative changes and use analytics to improve service delivery, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Serve as the strategic payroll leader and cross-functional partner across LAC. Partner with People Team, Finance, Controllership, Legal, Tax, M&A, and business leaders to align payroll priorities with regional and enterprise objectives.
• Lead payroll readiness and operational integration for new countries, legal entities, acquisitions, and future growth initiatives.
• Provide strong local leadership in Colombia while balancing regional LAC priorities, stakeholder expectations, operational escalations, and employee experience.
• Establish clear regional ownership, accountability, and executive visibility for payroll strategy and execution across multiple countries and entities.
• Drive transformation, vendor performance, and scalable operating models. Lead process optimization, automation, systems improvements, and scalable solutions that reduce manual work and support regional growth.
• Partner with internal teams and payroll providers to improve process flow, communication, service levels, controls, and continuous improvement.
• Hold vendors accountable for service delivery, compliance, performance expectations, and timely issue resolution.
• Build organizational capability and a sustainable regional leadership structure. Lead and engage geographically dispersed payroll teams across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, with clear accountability for country deliverables and regional priorities.
• Coach and develop payroll talent through regular feedback, recognition, upskilling, cross-training, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Reduce key-person dependency and strengthen team capability to support growth, transformation, acquisitions, and operational continuity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred.
• 15 or more years of progressive payroll experience, including significant leadership of complex, multi-country payroll operations across LAC within a large multinational and matrixed organization.
• Proven experience setting regional payroll strategy and partnering with senior leaders across People Team, Finance, Controllership, Legal, Tax, M&A, and the business.
• Demonstrated leadership of payroll readiness, operational integration, and change delivery for new countries, legal entities, acquisitions, and business expansion initiatives.
• Strong and current knowledge of payroll legislation, statutory requirements, labor practices, tax considerations, and regulatory environments across LAC, including key markets such as Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.
• Deep experience in payroll governance, internal controls, audit management, compliance, risk mitigation, issue escalation, and.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.