VP, People Operations Manager - Global Payroll & HRIS

Skills

About the Role

You will support the Workday implementation, including data migration, testing, payroll readiness, documentation, training, and change management. You will administer and optimize Workday after launch while managing global payroll operations, reconciliations, vendors, compliance, reporting, employee data, and employee inquiries.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience in People Operations, payroll, HRIS, HR technology, or a related field.
• Hands-on payroll operations experience.
• Global or multi-country payroll experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Workday or another enterprise HRIS.
• Direct Workday implementation experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with HRIS implementation, migration, configuration, or significant system transformation is highly desirable.
• Understanding of HRIS data, payroll, benefits, Finance, and employee lifecycle processes.
• Ability to reconcile complex datasets and resolve discrepancies.
• Strong Excel skills and experience with large datasets, reporting, and analysis.
• Project management skills.
• Written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the Workday implementation, including requirements gathering, business-process design, configuration, integrations, and data migration.
• Prepare, cleanse, validate, and migrate employee and payroll data.
• Develop and execute user acceptance testing and resolve identified issues.
• Support payroll parallel testing and payroll-readiness activities.
• Establish HRIS processes, controls, documentation, and governance.
• Create process documentation, SOPs, training materials, and resources.
• Support Workday change management, training, and communications.
• Administer Workday business processes, employee data, reporting, security, updates, and issue resolution after go-live.
• Improve, automate, and scale People processes through Workday and other technologies.
• Administer global payroll with internal teams and third-party payroll providers.
• Review payroll inputs and outputs for accuracy, completeness, and timely payment.
• Perform payroll audits, reconciliations, and variance analyses and resolve discrepancies.
• Coordinate employee lifecycle changes affecting payroll.
• Partner with Finance on payroll funding, reconciliation, reporting, and accounting requirements.
• Align HRIS, payroll, benefits, and employee data across systems and vendors.
• Support payroll compliance across applicable jurisdictions.
• Manage payroll vendor relationships and resolve service or accuracy issues.
• Maintain payroll calendars, controls, documentation, and SOPs.
• Maintain employee data accuracy and integrity across People systems.
• Analyze People and payroll data for trends, discrepancies, and operational improvements.
• Respond to employee and manager inquiries about payroll, HR data, systems, and access.
• Support audits, compliance requests, reporting, onboarding, transfers, and offboarding.
• Handle sensitive employee information with discretion.

Benefits

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• Flexible paid time off
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents
• Paid parental leave
• Family planning benefits for US employees
• Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts/lunches
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace