Sr. Director, Time Reporting, Payroll & Stock Services

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Job Summary

We are looking for a Global Sr. Director of Time Reporting, Payroll & Stock Services to manage our Time Reporting, Payroll & Stock Services teams, made up of 35 employees across 3 regions, while concurrently transforming our global Time Reporting and Payroll systems.  Time Reporting is currently a shared responsibility between Payroll (in 11 countries) and HR (in 26 countries).  Approximately 50% of the company's 14,000, and growing, workforce is paid on an hourly basis with overtime and other complex compensation plans.  This new leader will be accountable for all global time reporting processes and controls, as well as implementing a global time reporting system, in conjunction with a scheduling tool, to be utilized by our Global Datacenter Operations teams.  The global time reporting system will be implemented over the course of several years in conjunction with the conversion of a majority of our countries’ payroll systems, and in coordination with changes to our HR employee management, benefits systems, and possibly other Operation’s system requirements.   

Responsibilities

As the leader of this Time Reporting, Payroll & Stock Services transformation, you will be responsible for: 

• Oversight of time keeping responsibilities globally, including 20+ countries currently managed by Human Resources, largely on a manual basis 

• Implementation of a global time keeping system over the course of 3 - 4 years, including a scheduling system for use by our Operations teams (and other add-on systems they may wish in the future).  Integration with Workday and and changes thereafter, and integration with the company's new Benefex benefits system

• Conversion of approximately 20 countries, over the next 3 - 4 years, onto the ADP Celergo platform for payroll processing purposes, ensuring integration with Workday and the new global Workforce time keeping system

• Ensure the payroll platforms properly tax and report benefits from the new Benefex system being implemented globally over the next 4 years by HR, including the consequences of a “Flexwallet” in many of our jurisdictions

• Coordination of the above across Finance, HR, IT, and Operations, ensuring all time and pay system implementations are accurately completed on time and on budget

• Coordination with Operations on additional system requirements impacting Time and/or Pay, which they may wish to add in the future 

• Training of all employees and managers globally on the functionality and benefits of the new time keeping system

• Assistance with training of Operations managers on the use of the new scheduling, and other future modules

• The institution of proper controls both internally financially, and externally with ADP and Workforce, our global time system, with respect to information security

• Organization of your team in the most efficient manner to accomplish the above noted transformations, as well as management of the ongoing operations of Time Reporting, Payroll and Stock Services as noted below

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