Global Payroll Process Lead (f/m/d)

Siemens Energy; Kraków; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Health benefits

Paid time off

Global team

Country-specific rewards

Job summary

Siemens Energy seeks a Global Payroll Service Lead to define the global Payroll service, protect the process and control framework, and own Payroll governance after go-live. You will ensure a compliant, accurate, timely, and auditable payroll service as the business owner during transition into the future Siemens Energy environment.

You will lead governance across countries, vendors, and SSC readiness, driving standards, controls, and KPIs to ensure payroll readiness and delivery globally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of end-to-end payroll experience in multi-country/global settings.
• Strong knowledge of payroll controls, statutory requirements and posting processes.
• Experience governing vendors, shared services, or SSC across regions.
• Ability to translate complexity into global standards and governance.
• Excellent stakeholder management across HR, Finance, Tax, IT and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global Payroll service scope and governance framework.
• Act as design authority for payroll standards during transition.
• Partner with Transformation and SSC readiness teams to confirm payroll readiness by country.
• Own end-to-end global Payroll service and govern vendor delivery against KPIs and standards.
• Approve changes and deviations requiring governance approval.
• Maintain strategic roadmap for Payroll evolution post-stabilization.

Skills

Payroll management

Global governance

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Policy development

Job description

Snapshot of Your Day

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.

Snapshot of Your Day

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.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

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