Director, Global Payroll

Summary

Join Anaplan as our Director of Global Payroll and lead our US, UK, and international payroll teams. Partner with various departments to deliver excellent payroll services, manage risk, and scale operations. Develop and implement strategies to optimize global payroll administration while ensuring compliance and accuracy. This role reports to the Corporate Controller and offers a hybrid work schedule with two days a week in our Northern VA office. You will oversee domestic and international payroll processing, recruit and develop top talent, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This leadership position requires extensive experience in multi-state and multi-country payroll management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, business, or other relevant or related field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressive experience overseeing the processing of multi-state and multi-country payrolls for large exempt and non-exempt workforce with hands-on responsibilities
• Experience with Workday systems and ADP WFN
• Experience transforming a payroll function to maximize automation, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
• Strong project management experience including the ability to manage project plans, dependencies, critical path activities, and milestones
• Highly analytical, aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and demands
• Excel in hyper-growth environments; versatile, capable of managing multiple projects and tasks
• Communicate effectively with teammates and various levels of management as well as external contacts
• Reliable, with a strong work ethic
• Demonstrates professionalism and maturity in handling confidential information

Responsibilities

• Oversee teams of domestic and international payroll full cycle processing for US and International subsidiaries
• Recruit and develop the best-in-class talent that will be subject matter experts and points of contact for all internal and external payroll inquiries
• Develop and execute a strategic plan to scale and optimize the global payroll administration that can support new and existing payrolls in various regions
• Actively engage and collaborate with cross-functional teams and leadership to ensure business objectives and priorities are met and executed effectively
• Lead, coach, mentor, and train the team, including completion and achievement of SMART goals
• Design and implement workflows and internal controls within systems to ensure all payroll transactions are processed accurately, timely and in compliance with International, federal, state, local, and country-specific laws and regulations
• Monitor the latest payroll and wage laws and regulations to ensure tax and benefits compliance is maintained within systems
• Ensure quarterly and annual filings and reporting requirements are executed with accuracy and are filed timely for all jurisdictions
• Participate in the design and implementation of internal controls and documentation per International/Federal/State compliance requirements
• Manage payroll-related financial closing activities for the month/quarter/year-end and external audits: payroll journal entries, payroll-related account reconciliations, and related balance sheet flux analytics
• Lead or assist on special tasks and projects as needed (e.g., M&A payroll integration, entity set up, system implementations, etc.)

Benefits

Hybrid work schedule, with two days/week in a future office in Northern VA