Global Payroll Process Lead (f/m/d)

Siemens Energy; Lisboa; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Career growth and development

Health and wellness benefits

Paid time off and holidays

Global teamwork

Country-specific rewards

Résumé du poste

Siemens Energy is seeking a Global Payroll Service Lead to define and govern the global payroll service across countries. You will protect the process framework and ensure compliant, accurate and auditable payroll delivery after go-live.

You will partner with Transformation and SSC teams, align with country specifics, manage vendor relationships, and drive the payroll roadmap post-stabilization, while ensuring timely employee pay and statutory compliance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of global payroll experience across multiple countries.
• Knowledge of payroll controls, statutory requirements and post-payroll activities.
• Experience governing vendors and regional/global SSC teams.
• Ability to translate operations into global standards and governance guardrails.
• Strong stakeholder management across HR, Finance, Tax, and IT.

Responsabilités

• Define and maintain the global Payroll service scope, catalogue, critical process inventory and ownership model.
• Act as design authority for Payroll standards, controls 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.
• 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 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.

Connaissances

Payroll governance

Stakeholder management

Vendor governance

Global payroll

Governance standards

Outils

HRIS systems

Payroll software

Description du poste

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