Global Payroll Strategy & Governance Director

Corpay; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Assigned workspace in the Atlanta офис

Company-issued equipment

Formal hands-on training

Job summary

Corpay, a global payments leader, seeks a Sr. Director, Global Payroll in Atlanta to own strategy, governance, and execution of payroll across multiple regions.

You will drive a consistent operating model, ensure timely payments, and lead cross-functional collaboration with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, and Audit. You will establish calendars, data quality controls, and SLAs while maintaining compliance, continuity plans, and data security.

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 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.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for critical payroll incidents, directing root-cause analysis, remediation, employee communications, and prevention plans.
• 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.
• Maintain compliance with applicable wage-and-hour, tax withholding, social insurance, pension/superannuation, leave, termination, reporting, record-retention, data privacy, and payment requirements in every country of operation.
• Design and operate a robust payroll control framework, including segregation of duties, approval authorities, access controls, change controls, reconciliations, audit trails, and issue remediation.
• Partner with Legal, Tax, Finance, and local advisers to monitor regulatory change, assess impact, implement requirements, and document decisions.
• Support internal and external audits, statutory inspections, financial-control testing, and remediation activities; ensure evidence is complete, timely, and defensible.
• Protect sensitive employee and payroll data in partnership with Privacy and Information Security, including appropriate cross-border data handling and vendor controls.
• Own the payroll technology and integration roadmap across HRIS, time and attendance, benefits, finance/ERP, treasury, banking, tax, and…

Job description

Corpay, a global payments leader, seeks a Sr. Director, Global Payroll in Atlanta to own strategy, governance, and execution of payroll across multiple regions.

You will drive a consistent operating model, ensure timely payments, and lead cross-functional collaboration with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, and Audit. You will establish calendars, data quality controls, and SLAs while maintaining compliance, continuity plans, and data security.