Global Payroll Governance & Services Lead

Siemens Energy; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Health benefits

Paid time off

Global team

Country-specific rewards

Job summary

Siemens Energy is seeking a Global Payroll Service Lead to define and govern the global payroll service, ensuring compliance, accuracy, timeliness and auditable processes across countries.

You will own the end-to-end payroll service, partner with Transformation and SSC teams, and guide governance through lift-and-drop, changes and strategic roadmapping beyond stabilization and transformation.

Qualifications

• Extensive end-to-end payroll experience across multiple countries.
• Strong knowledge of payroll controls, statutory requirements, and post-payroll activities.
• Experience governing vendors, shared services and country teams.
• Ability to translate operational complexity into global standards and governance guardrails.
• Proven stakeholder management across HR, Finance, Tax and IT.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global Payroll service scope, service catalogue, critical process inventory and ownership model and validate that Payroll processes, country specifics, handover documents, operational dependencies and local deviations are captured before transition.
• Act as design authority for Payroll standards, controls, exception principles and decision rights during the lift-and-drop phase.
• Partner with Transformation and SSC readiness teams to confirm payroll readiness by country, provider, process and control area and review and elevate payroll risks that could impact employee pay, statutory compliance, finance posting, payment execution or audit evidence.
• Own the end-to-end global Payroll service on behalf of the Governance organization and govern SSC and vendor delivery against Payroll standards, service expectations, controls and agreed KPIs.
• Approve global Payroll process changes, local deviations and service model updates where governance approval is required.
• Maintain strategic roadmap for Payroll service evolution after stabilization and transformation start and provide expert input to acquisitions, country moves, vendor changes, system changes and regulatory impacts.

Skills

Global payroll governance

Multi-country payroll

Stakeholder management

Process governance

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Siemens Energy is seeking a Global Payroll Service Lead to define and govern the global payroll service, ensuring compliance, accuracy, timeliness and auditable processes across countries.

You will own the end-to-end payroll service, partner with Transformation and SSC teams, and guide governance through lift-and-drop, changes and strategic roadmapping beyond stabilization and transformation.