Cssmerge Senior Payroll Director at Atoms leading global payroll operations across 30 countries and multiple legal entities. Responsible for managing payroll systems, vendors, and transforming payroll infrastructure to support company growth.
Responsibilities
Own global payroll end to end: Lead payroll for the Atoms Group across roughly 30 countries and several hundred legal entities, owning the function, the team, the systems, and the vendors.
Run the operating model: Own the Workday and ADP architecture, with Workday as the system of record for data aggregation, HR and payroll workflows, and approvals, and ADP handling processing, payment execution, and tax remittance.
Lead the transformation: Consolidate fragmented international processes, improve accuracy, and rebuild payroll infrastructure that was designed for a company several times smaller.
Own vendor strategy: Evaluate, select, and govern dedicated international payroll partners across EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, where the current setup is not yet sufficient for our entity complexity.
Serve a layered workforce: Pay corporate, executive, and a large and fast-growing hourly population without letting accuracy or service quality slip as headcount climbs.
Build the team: Right-size and develop a payroll organization that is lean relative to its scope, and set the standard for what great payroll looks like here.
Qualification
You bring 15+ years in payrollYou have deepYou thrive in a fast-pacedWorkday re-implementation experience
Required
You bring 15+ years in payroll, including at least 10 years leading people, with teams across multiple geographies or offshore Centers of Excellence.
You have run complex multi-country payroll across a large number of legal entities spanning multiple continents, with real command of international compliance, tax, and statutory requirements across EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
You have deep, hands-on Workday experience including implementation. Re-implementation is a strong plus.
You know the Workday and ADP operating model, and you have evaluated or run dedicated international payroll vendors such as Safeguard Global, Papaya Global, or CloudPay.
You have owned end-to-end payroll transformation rather than steady-state operations alone: consolidating systems, improving accuracy, and improving the employee experience.
You have scaled inside a high-growth company that stayed lean on G&A. Time at a payroll service provider or payroll software company is a plus.
You thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
