Process Excellence Manager - Global Payroll

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work. If you join FinOps, you will be part of a finance organization that empowers our stakeholders to achieve more through trusted services that ensure accuracy, timeliness, privacy, and accessibility. We offer unique opportunities to drive projects that improve our efficiency and effectiveness across our global footprint by leveraging innovative automation and technology solutions. 

Global Payroll provides trusted payroll solutions to over 200,000 employees in 103 countries. The Process Excellence Manager – Global Payroll role provides strategic oversight and governance for all technology programs and projects across Payroll Operations and Payroll Accounting. Key responsibilities include understanding program requirements and objectives, ensuring the alignment of payroll technology improvement initiatives with business goals, managing the stakeholders and teams involved in these programs, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.  This role will drive business value by working collaboratively with both Microsoft teams and external suppliers.  This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, apply your financial and technical acumen in new areas, and be on the forefront of new technology adoption in the financial services space.   

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Apply data-driven methodologies to efficiently manage initiatives and drive prioritization while ensuring optimization throughout the process. 

• Build relationships, collaborate across teams, and coordinate timelines for complex, cross-discipline projects. 

• Oversee projects from conception to implementation, including root cause analysis, business requirements' development, process mapping, user acceptance testing, and deployment. 

• Drive the future state capabilities and systems roadmap, clearly communicating business impact and success metrics. 

• Translate business requirements into build requirements, working with technical teams. 

• Ensure readiness for process, tools, and system changes among people, suppliers, and partners. 

• Define data policies and governance to maintain pay data channel integrity and reliability. 

• Present business case justifications for prioritization of resources and technology investments aligned with strategic objectives. 

• Establish a