VP of Global Payroll & Compliance Leader

Future Standard; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Future Standard seeks a Vice President of Payroll Administration to lead enterprise payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payments across the organization. You will own end-to-end payroll, including processing, off-cycle filings, garnishments, and G/L interface into Corporate Accounting.

You will partner with HR, Treasury, Tax, and Audit to modernize processes, strengthen controls, and guide a distributed team through growth and system changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, human resources, or a related field.
• 12+ years of payroll experience with at least 5 years leading a payroll organization in a multi-state environment.
• Demonstrated command of payroll tax, wage and hour regulation, garnishment administration, and year-end reporting requirements.
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise payroll and time platform, and comfort working alongside systems teams on configuration, testing, and integrations.
• Experience leading a payroll system implementation, conversion or shared-services transition preferred.
• Exposure to international payroll and equity compensation reporting preferred.
• Experience with Ceridian Dayforce preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the full payroll cycle for all pay groups, ensuring accuracy and on-schedule release.
• Partner with in-country providers and local finance teams for international payroll across countries and currencies.
• Direct off-cycle payments, retroactive adjustments, bonus/commission runs, severance, relocation, and equity payroll events.
• Maintain a documented control environment over payroll and ensure audit readiness.
• Lead, develop, and retain the payroll team with clear objectives and succession planning.
• Own payroll tax registrations, deposits, filings, and W-2 issuance/amendments.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-country payroll

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder collaboration

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance/HR

Tools

Ceridian Dayforce

Payroll/time platform

Job description

Future Standard seeks a Vice President of Payroll Administration to lead enterprise payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payments across the organization. You will own end-to-end payroll, including processing, off-cycle filings, garnishments, and G/L interface into Corporate Accounting.

You will partner with HR, Treasury, Tax, and Audit to modernize processes, strengthen controls, and guide a distributed team through growth and system changes.