Global Payroll Strategy Lead: Governance & Compliance

Siemens Energy; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth and development

Health and wellness benefits

Paid time off and holidays

Global teamwork

Country-specific rewards

Job summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Payroll governance

Stakeholder management

Vendor governance

Global payroll

Governance standards

Tools

HRIS systems

Payroll software

Job description

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.