Senior Program Manager - Global Payroll

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Responsibilities

Working at Atlassian

Atlassian's can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassian' have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Your future team

We're hiring a Senior Program Manager, reporting to our Global Payroll Program Manager

As a Senior Program Manager, you will help shape our Program Management organisation as a senior individual contributor.

You will have diverse program management capabilities and will guide successful outcomes by influencing others and going deep into project, processes and any issues. Also, you will understand the business strategy and align with our technical teams to this to accelerate the programs.

Atlassian is looking for a passionate Global Payroll Program Manager to join our Global Payroll Team.

You are a good fit for this role if you have excellent communication skills, are creative, detail oriented, and have a customer focused mindset.
You will be part of a fast-paced, fun, global team who engage with one another regularly and have many opportunities to learn and grow in our roles. We're looking for someone that will bring their whole self to work and add more of that special spice that makes our TEAM great!

What you'll do

• Manage a portfolio of work which can range from specific end to end programs to managing an intake process

• Manage often high-volume and high complexity dependencies and risks between teams by aligning partners

• Report on success metrics for programs including major risks

• Deliver strategy with the leadership team

• Guide, facilitate and close technical discussions to unblock program outcomes

• Apply your technical understanding to support and negotiate delivery timelines

• Advocate for change in program management and deliver best practices

• Maintain documentation for payroll processes and procedures and assist the Operations team with documentation

• Assist with payroll system implementations and testing - Existing Geos and new Geos

• Global Compliance reviews and implementations

• Lead post-M&A implementation / integration for Payroll Operations

• Assist Global Payroll Program Manager with ad-hoc projects

• Assist Global Payroll team with ad-hoc projects

Your background

• 7+ years of program leadership experience on software teams as Program Manager

• Experience leading projects spanning multiple teams in multiple timezones, covering all of the following

• Create and hold accountability for the schedule

• Make critical decisions quickly to keep project on track

• Track and managing risks and dependencies

• Communication to your teammates and partners

• Collaborate across teams to evolve standards

• Payroll and Audit experience essential

• Strong Excel experience

• Confluence and Jira experience is favourable

• Critical thinker and problem solver

• Applicant must be detail-oriented

• Must be able to work under tight deadlines

• Candidate should have good customer service and excellent communication skills

• Candidate should have strong organisational, time management and prioritisation abilities

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders throughout the company and navigate sometimes undefined roles and responsibilities

• Embrace and drive change

• Have a can-do attitude and be confident calling out risks when necessary

Qualifications

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise,