Global Mobility Payroll Specialist

Hitachi, Ltd.; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Payroll Expert for Global Mobility & Travel Compliance to design and drive future-state payroll processes supporting international assignments and cross-border mobility. You will partner with HR, Tax, Legal and external providers to ensure compliant, scalable payroll operations across jurisdictions.

The role requires deep global payroll expertise, experience with multi-country payroll, and proven ability to implement governance and control frameworks within a complex

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Global Payroll Operations supporting international or cross-border employee populations.
• Strong knowledge of employment tax, social security, and payroll compliance requirements.
• Experience with shadow payroll and international assignment payroll administration.
• Proven experience working with outsourced payroll providers and multi-country payroll environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design global payroll processes, governance models, and control frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Global Payroll subject matter expert within the Business Travel Compliance program.
• Design and implement end-to-end payroll processes supporting international business travel compliance requirements.
• Develop operational models for employment tax, social security, payroll reporting, and compliance administration.
• Establish payroll standards supporting immigration, Posted Worker Directive (PWD), tax, and social security compliance.
• Define interfaces, data exchanges, and integration requirements between payroll providers and compliance solutions.
• Assess impacts across global payroll platforms, including ADP, Ramco, and local payroll providers.
• Develop governance, audit, reconciliation, and control frameworks to ensure compliance and operational effectiveness.
• Support solution design, testing, UAT activities, deployment, and transition into business-as-usual operations.
• Partner with HR Operations, Global Mobility, Tax, Finance, Legal, and external vendors to design and implement the target operating model.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives while monitoring process performance and resolving complex payroll and compliance issues.

Skills

Global Payroll Operations

Cross-border payroll

Payroll tax knowledge

Stakeholder management

Workday knowledge

Tools

ADP

Ramco

Workday

Job description

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Payroll Expert for Global Mobility & Travel Compliance to design and drive future-state payroll processes supporting international assignments and cross-border mobility. You will partner with HR, Tax, Legal and external providers to ensure compliant, scalable payroll operations across jurisdictions.

The role requires deep global payroll expertise, experience with multi-country payroll, and proven ability to implement governance and control frameworks within a complex