Sr. Global Payroll Optimization Specialist

Flowserve Corporation; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowserve Corporation is seeking a strategic payroll partner to drive transformation and optimization of global payroll operations, shaping multi-country initiatives and system implementations. You will partner with HR, Finance, and Technology to elevate service delivery, strengthen controls and embed scalable solutions.

This high-impact role leverages US payroll expertise and requires strong regulatory awareness, governance, and a continuous improvement mindset to deliver measurable outcomes

Qualifications

• Experience with vendor migrations in payroll.
• Proven project management experience in time/attendance or payroll systems.
• Attention to detail and data auditing for migration projects.
• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity.
• Experience with Kronos time and attendance.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement in English.
• Ability to create and run payroll reports.
• BS/BA degree and 5–7 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee payroll time logs, corrections, tax adjustments and interfaces.
• Ensure accurate payroll close with data collection and policy application.
• Communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Document and maintain payroll procedures.
• Review and improve payroll processing to standardize and scale.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year-end reports as needed.
• Ensure service levels and compliance with SOX and internal policies.
• Address issues and provide timely resolutions.
• Support employees with compliant payroll answers.
• Run and create reports and participate in special projects.

Skills

Vendor migration

Project management

Attention to detail

Confidential data handling

Kronos time & attendance

Relationship building

English communication

Escalation management

Data reporting

Excel skills

BS/BA degree in relevant field

Education

BS/BA in relevant field

Tools

ADP WFN

Job description

Company Overview: If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

Role Summary

We are seeking a strategic payroll partner to drive the transformation and optimization of our global payroll operations. This role goes beyond execution—you will shape and deliver complex, multi-country payroll initiatives, including vendor migrations, system implementations, and process standardization.

Leveraging deep U.S. payroll expertise and strong global regulatory awareness, you will partner with senior stakeholders across HR, Finance, and Technology to elevate service delivery, strengthen controls, and embed scalable, compliant solutions.

This is a high-impact role for someone who combines project leadership, technical payroll expertise, and a continuous improvement mindset to influence change and deliver measurable business outcomes on a global scale.

Responsabilities

• Oversee payroll time logs, time corrections, tax adjustments and all other electronic paper or interfaces related to the company’s ongoing payroll processes.
• Ensure payroll is closed accurately by performing all data collection, reconciliation, and application of payroll policies for area of responsibility.
• Communicate with all levels of the organization effectively by responding in a timely manner and providing friendly customer service.
• Document and maintain payroll procedures.
• Review and continually improve payroll processing with the key objective to simplify, standardize and build capacity on the team.
• Communicate with all levels of the organization effectively by responding in a timely manner and providing friendly customer service.
• Prepare relevant weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year-end reports on an as needed basis.
• Ensure exceptional service and meet all service level requirements for payroll.
• Address issues and provide resolution when service level requirements are not accomplished.
• Ensure compliance with existing controls including SOX compliance, internal audit, Flowserve policies, payroll procedures, and country, state or city laws.
• Review and audit all hours, earnings, deductions, manual checks, and special actions prior to each payroll processing.
• Provide strong support to our employees by providing answers that are compliant with payroll laws and union agreements.
• Ensure data integrity in the payroll system and systems that impact payroll.
• Perform special projects at the request of as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must have experience with vendor migration
• Proven record of project managing experience (Time and attendance, Benefits, HCM or payroll vendor system set-up or change)
• Must possess an attention to detail and accuracy as it relates to payroll project tracking and migration data auditing.
• Must have strong ethical standards and ability to work with confidential data.
• Familiarity with of Kronos time and attendance system.
• Relationship building with Region HR, payroll staff, technical team, other HR teams and business leaders to ensure consistent quality service delivery.
• Possess strong customer service focus and understand proper customer relationship practices.
• International Payroll, US Payroll experience.
• Excellent English communication skills both oral and written and ability to communicate with all levels in the organization.
• Strong escalation skills with the ability to own, de-escalate, determine root cause, and implement risk avoidance improvements.
• Ability to run and create reports.
• Be comfortable with technology and possess excellent Excel skills and MS office usage
• BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 5-7 years relevant experience

Preferred

• Background working with ADP and other vendors in addition to ADP is a plus.
• US payroll experience (ADP WFN product )

Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.

Req ID

R-20996

Job Family Group

Human Resources

Job Family

HR Payroll

Equal Opportunity Employer

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