Global Payroll Process Lead (f/m/d)

Siemens Energy; Katowice; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Energy is seeking a Global Payroll Service Lead to define and govern the global payroll service. You will ensure compliant, accurate, timely, and auditable payroll across countries during the transition and beyond.

You will own the payroll governance framework, validate country specifics, and partner with Transformation and SSC teams to confirm readiness. A strategic roadmap will guide evolution in a complex, global environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of end-to-end payroll experience in multi-country environments.
• Strong knowledge of payroll controls and statutory requirements.
• Experience governing vendors and shared services through governance models.
• Ability to translate operational complexity into global standards and guardrails.
• Excellent stakeholder management across HR, Finance, Tax, IT and external providers.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global Payroll service scope, service catalogue and ownership model and validate country specifics and deviations before transition.
• Act as design authority for payroll standards, controls and decision rights during lift-and-drop phases.
• Partner with Transformation and SSC readiness teams to confirm payroll readiness by country, provider and process.
• Own the end-to-end global Payroll service and govern SSC and vendor delivery against standards, KPIs and service expectations.
• Approve global Payroll process changes, local deviations and updates where governance approval is required.
• Maintain a strategic roadmap for Payroll service evolution post-stabilization and contribute to acquisitions and regulatory changes.

Skills

End-to-end payroll experience

Payroll governance

Statutory compliance knowledge

Stakeholder management

Vendors/SSC governance

Global payroll experience

Job description

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. "We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

As the Global Payroll Service Lead you will be accountable for defining the global Payroll service, protecting the process and control framework, and acting as the permanent global business owner for Payroll service governance after go-live. You will ensure that Payroll service is transferred from the current delivery model into the future Siemens Energy environment while remaining compliant, accurate, timely and auditable.

How You Will Make an Impact

• 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.

What You Bring

• Deep end-to-end Payroll experience (5 years +) across multi-country, outsourced, co-sourced or shared service environments on global scale.
• Strong knowledge of payroll controls, statutory requirements, payroll calendars, sign-off, payment controls and post-payroll activities.
• Experience governing vendors, shared services, regions and country teams through clear service ownership methods.
• Ability to translate operational complexity into global standards, issue decisions and pragmatic governance guardrails.
• Strong stakeholder management across HR, Finance, Tax, Treasury, IT, Compliance and external providers

Who is Siemens Energy

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• Opportunity to work with a global team
• Additional rewards based on your country will be further discussed with the hiring team