Director of Payroll - Global

Role Summary:

The Director of Payroll – Global Shared Services provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for multi-country payroll delivery within a centralized, global shared services model. This role is responsible for driving consistent, compliant, and scalable payroll operations across regions, while ensuring robust governance, internal controls, and financial rigor in a public company / SOX-regulated setting. The role serves as a key partner to Finance, HR, Internal Audit, and Technology and acts as a global payroll subject-matter expert, with deep experience leveraging ADP, CloudPay, and Workday, and owning payroll accruals, controls, and audit readiness at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Global Payroll Oversight & Shared Services Leadership

• Provide strategic oversight for end-to-end global payroll operations delivered through a shared services model.
• Lead and develop global payroll teams supporting multiple regions and countries.
• Serve as the primary global escalation point for complex payroll issues, controls, and risk events.




• Drive alignment between in-country payroll execution and global payroll standards.

Governance, Risk & SOX Controls
• Own and maintain global payroll governance frameworks, including SOPs, segregation of duties, and approval workflows.
• Ensure payroll processes comply with SOX and internal control requirements.
• Partner with Internal Audit and External Audit to support walkthroughs, testing, and remediation.
• Identify and mitigate payroll-related risks across regions, vendors, and systems.

Financial Management, Accruals & Close
• Own global payroll accrual processes including wages, bonuses, commissions, leave, severance, and statutory costs.
• Partner with Finance on month-end and year-end close, GL postings, and reconciliations.
• Ensure payroll data is audit-ready and supports public company reporting standards.

Payroll Systems & Technology Enablement
• Provide leadership

📌 Director Of Payroll Hyderabad Secunderabad (India)
🏢 Zeta Global
📍 India