Global Payroll Governance & Quality Lead

Biopharma Careers; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 207,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Remote work allowance

Professional development funding

Job summary

Biogen Poland is seeking a Governance and Quality Lead in the Global People Services team to strengthen payroll governance and quality controls across the U.S. and international operations.

You will drive governance routines, manage risks, oversee remediation efforts, and coordinate with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, IT and Internal Audit to ensure audit readiness and continuous improvement. The role emphasizes rigorous documentation, process standardization, access governance, and timely remediation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in payroll, HR operations, internal controls, audit, risk management, compliance, shared services, or GBS operations.
• Strong experience with payroll controls, preferably in a multi-country or complex payroll environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of payroll processing, reconciliations, and vendor-managed services.
• Experience designing or improving control frameworks, SOPs, RACIs, and governance routines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead payroll quality controls and governance routines, including pre-pay and post-pay review procedures.
• Strengthen compliance and audit readiness across Payroll, HR Operations, and Centralized Learning.
• Standardize processes, RACIs, SOPs, and control documentation throughout the payroll lifecycle.
• Govern payroll data access and segregation of duties, enhancing access provisioning and governance.
• Provide independent oversight of provider performance and governance routines.
• Monitor service quality, identify risks, and validate corrective actions.
• Partner with external providers and regional stakeholders to ensure process compliance.
• Collaborate with HRIT, IT, Finance, and external providers to enhance system controls.
• Drive projects aimed at streamlining People Services models, such as payroll vendor consolidation.
• Maintain audit readiness and operational discipline through effective documentation standards.
• Escalate significant payroll control deficiencies or unresolved vendor performance concerns.
• Balance local country requirements with global governance standards.

Skills

Payroll controls

Risk management

Compliance

HR systems

Audit experience

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday

ADP

UKG

Dayforce

ServiceNow

Job description

Biogen Poland is seeking a Governance and Quality Lead in the Global People Services team to strengthen payroll governance and quality controls across the U.S. and international operations.

You will drive governance routines, manage risks, oversee remediation efforts, and coordinate with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, IT and Internal Audit to ensure audit readiness and continuous improvement. The role emphasizes rigorous documentation, process standardization, access governance, and timely remediation