VP, Regional Payroll — LATAM & Caribbean

State Street; México; A distancia; MXN 2.770.000 - 3.877.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

State Street in Mexico City seeks a Head of Latin America & Caribbean Payroll, Vice President, to lead regional payroll operations across Cayman Islands, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. You will drive end-to-end payroll delivery, tax filings, and compliance, while partnering with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, and external providers to ensure accuracy and timeliness.

You will build a strong control environment, oversee audits and remediation, and guide mergers, acquisitions, and entity changes.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree and/or 10–15 years of multi-country payroll leadership.
• Experience leading payrolls across Cayman Islands, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil.
• Proven ability to manage payroll tax returns, statutory payments, and banking portals.
• Design and manage payroll controls, SOX-aligned documentation, audit support.
• Experience leading payroll workstreams for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or integrations.
• Fluent English and Spanish; Portuguese strongly preferred; Workday experience preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Lead regional payroll operations and vendor partnerships.
• Oversee end-to-end payroll delivery across the Cayman Islands, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil, including payroll results, reconciliations, funding, employee payments, statutory liabilities, and exceptions.
• Oversee accurate and timely payroll tax returns, social security filings, statutory declarations, payments, year-end reporting, and supporting documentation.
• Build and maintain a strong risk and control environment, including preventive and detective controls, maker-approver requirements, four-eye reviews, segregation of duties, access governance, reconciliations, and audit evidence.
• Lead remediation of control deficiencies, audit findings, compliance gaps, late or inaccurate filings, payment issues, and recurring payroll defects; elevate material risks promptly.
• Represent the region on transformation, governance, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, employer transfers, legal-entity changes, and vendor transitions.
• Lead payroll due diligence and integration planning, including review of vendors, registrations, portal and bank access, historical filings and liabilities, collective bargaining requirements, employee data, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
• Monitor regional payroll, tax, labor, social security, banking, and regulatory developments and coordinate timely implementation of required changes.
• Manage third-party providers against service levels, compliance obligations, control expectations, and corrective-action commitments.
• Drive standardization, automation, payroll technology, process improvement, documentation, business continuity, cross-training, and performance reporting.
• Build strong partnerships with HR, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Benefits, Compensation, Technology, Internal Audit, country representatives, and external providers.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Multi-country payroll

English fluency

Spanish fluency

Project management

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Workday

Descripción del empleo

State Street in Mexico City seeks a Head of Latin America & Caribbean Payroll, Vice President, to lead regional payroll operations across Cayman Islands, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. You will drive end-to-end payroll delivery, tax filings, and compliance, while partnering with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, and external providers to ensure accuracy and timeliness.

You will build a strong control environment, oversee audits and remediation, and guide mergers, acquisitions, and entity changes.