Global Payroll Director

Why Verifone

• Established in 1990, Verifone has been a leader in electronic payment technology.
• One of the largest providers of electronic payment systems globally.
• Diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment.
• Collaborates with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners worldwide.
• Focuses on innovation, excellence, and customer satisfaction.
• Proudly maintains an in-office work culture for career development and business results.

About the role

Payroll Delivery

• Own end-to-end payroll processing across 41 countries, covering approximately 3,500 employees.
• Manage a multi-platform environment spanning ADP GlobalView, ADP Streamline, Deel, and standalone country solutions.
• Maintain accuracy, timeliness, and audit readiness across all pay cycles.
• Develop and enforce payroll controls, reconciliation processes, and exception-handling procedures.

Responsibilities

Compliance

• Ensure statutory compliance across all operating jurisdictions: tax withholding, social contributions, mandatory benefits, and local labor law.
• Maintain GDPR-compliant data handling across all payroll platforms and vendor integrations.
• Lead the function's response to regulatory inquiries, audits, and country-specific legislative changes.
• Partner with Legal and local advisors to stay ahead of regulatory change, not behind it.

Transformation and Process Improvement

• Lead the ongoing transformation of the global payroll function.
• Identify and implement process improvements that reduce error rates, cycle time, and manual effort.
• Evaluate and implement AI and automation tools within the payroll function; build the business case and manage adoption.
• Set and communicate a forward-looking operating model for the function.

Vendor Management

• Own the performance and contractual obligations of all payroll vendors, including ADP and Deel.
• Develop SLA oversight, escalation protocols, and performance review cadences for all payroll vendors.
• Lead contract renewals and renegotiations in partnership with Finance and Legal.
• Evaluate the vendor landscape on an ongoing basis and make recommendations where change is warranted.

Financial Integrity

• Partner with Finance to ensure accurate GL mapping, reconciliation, and period-end close processes.
• Provide payroll cost reporting that meets the standards of a financial control environment.
• Ensure multi-currency payroll is handled with appropriate exchange rate discipline and documentation.

Team Leadership

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the global payroll team across all regions.
• Build team capability in line with the function's transformation agenda, including AI literacy.
• Manage performance proactively: development plans, corrective action, and succession thinking.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to hire into gaps and build a bench for the future.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10 or more years of payroll experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role managing multi-country payroll.
• Experience managing payroll across multiple countries spanning more than one region.
• Demonstrated track record of leading a meaningful operational transformation in payroll or a comparable function.
• Hands-on experience implementing or adopting AI or automation tools in an operational payroll environment.
• General awareness is not sufficient.
• Working knowledge of GDPR and multi-jurisdictional statutory payroll compliance (tax, social contributions, mandatory benefits).
• Proven ability to manage enterprise payroll vendor relationships, including SLA oversight and contract negotiation.
• Direct people management experience, including performance management and team development.

Preferred Experience

• With ADP GlobalView, ADP Streamline, ADP Azets, Deel, or Workday specifically.
• Familiarity with EMEA statutory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience in payments, technology, or a matrixed global organization.
• Experience with payroll-to-GL integration and multi-currency reconciliation at scale.
• Experience managing payroll in countries served by standalone or non-standard platforms.
• Familiarity with Workday Global Payroll Connect (GPC) or equivalent HCM-to-payroll integration architecture.