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Title And Summary
Senior Analyst Payroll
Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Payroll Analyst to join our Payroll Governance team. This individual contributor role is responsible for defining, executing, and monitoring global payroll controls, ensuring compliance with SOX and internal governance standards, and maintaining audit readiness across a multinational payroll environment.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in payroll controls, audit support, and data governance,
with the ability to partner across multiple teams to strengthen the global control workplace and mitigate payroll risk.
Role
- Payroll Controls Design & Governance
- Define, document, and maintain global operational and SOX payroll controls.
- Identify and design additional controls as needed to address emerging risks, regulatory changes, or audit findings.
- Ensure payroll control frameworks align with internal governance standards and SOX requirements.
- Partner with regional payroll leads to ensure controls are clearly understood, implemented consistently, and scalable globally.
- Global Controls Execution & Monitoring
- Ensure payroll controls are executed consistently across all regions, including appropriate evidence collection and retention.
- Perform periodic control testing to assess design effectiveness and operating effectiveness.
- Monitor control execution status and follow up on missing or incomplete control evidence.
- Support remediation of control gaps, ex