Global Payroll Director: Strategy, Compliance & Transformation

Corpay; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) enrollment

Virtual fitness

Robust PTO

Employee discounts

Job summary

Corpay is seeking a Sr. Director, Global Payroll to lead the payroll strategy and governance for the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand from our Atlanta office.

You will drive end-to-end payroll, ensure compliance, and build scalable processes with senior leadership collaboration. The role oversees global payroll operations, governance, and transformation, partnering with HR, Finance, Tax, and Legal to deliver accurate, on-time payments and compliant processes across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant payroll experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years
• Global payroll experience strongly preferred, ideally including at least 1–2 years of direct global or multi-region payroll leadership
• Significant experience leading payroll teams within a complex organization
• Demonstrated experience managing payroll operations across multiple countries, regions, or business units
• Strong knowledge of payroll operations, controls, governance, and regulatory requirements
• Experience leading and developing geographically dispersed teams
• Demonstrated ability to standardize processes while recognizing country-specific payroll requirements
• Strong experience managing organizational change, transformation, or payroll operating-model improvements
• Experience partnering with HR, Finance, Benefits, Compensation, and other cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with employees, operational teams, and senior leadership
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining close enough to payroll operations to identify and resolve issues
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple regions and time zones

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year global payroll strategy aligned with enterprise growth, employee experience, risk tolerance, and financial objectives.
• Lead, develop, and retain high-performing regional payroll teams; establish clear accountabilities, service standards, succession plans, and professional development pathways.
• Create a consistent global operating model while preserving the local expertise and market-specific practices required for compliance.
• Chair payroll governance forums and provide executive-level reporting on service performance, control effectiveness, regulatory risk, transformation progress, and material issues.
• Own end-to-end payroll delivery for regular, supplemental, off-cycle, bonus, commission, equity-related, termination, and other payments within scope.
• Ensure accurate and timely gross-to-net calculations, funding, payments, statutory remittances, reconciliations, year-end processing, and employee tax documentation.
• Establish globally consistent calendars, cutoffs, approvals, data-quality checks, exception management, and service-level agreements.
• Improve the employee and manager experience through clear communications, responsive case management, self-service, and measurable resolution standards.
• Maintain business continuity and disaster-recovery plans for payroll processing, funding, banking, critical vendors, and key-person dependencies.

Skills

Global payroll leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Payroll governance

Strategic planning

Data analytics

Change management

Vendor management

Workday experience

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8+ yrs payroll

Master's degree + 6+ yrs payroll

Tools

Workday

Job description

Corpay is seeking a Sr. Director, Global Payroll to lead the payroll strategy and governance for the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand from our Atlanta office.

You will drive end-to-end payroll, ensure compliance, and build scalable processes with senior leadership collaboration. The role oversees global payroll operations, governance, and transformation, partnering with HR, Finance, Tax, and Legal to deliver accurate, on-time payments and compliant processes across