Senior Director, Global Payroll

The Role

The Senior Director, Global Payroll leads strategy and execution of Light & Wonder’s global payroll operations to ensure accurate, compliant, and scalable delivery across all regions. This role is critical in enabling business continuity, mitigating regulatory risk, and establishing strong governance and operational consistency.

About the Role

Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Responsibilities

• Direct global payroll operations, ensuring accurate and timely processing across all regions.
• Define and implement payroll policies, controls, and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable regulations.
• Manage payroll systems, data integrity, and external partners to support operational effectiveness and scalability.
• Identify and execute process improvements to enhance efficiency, standardization, and service delivery.
• Lead, develop, and evaluate a global payroll team to ensure strong performance and capability development.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support business initiatives, workforce changes, and risk management.
• Provide oversight and support for payroll readiness during organizational changes, including acquisitions and restructures.
• Ensure alignment of payroll operations, practices, and team behaviors with Light & Wonder’s vision, mission, and values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of progressive payroll experience, including managing global payroll operations across multiple countries and regions.
• 5+ years of leadership experience overseeing global payroll teams, including experience leading distributed or multi region teams.
• Experience across both in-house and outsourced payroll models and experience leading payroll system implementations or enhancements (e.g., ADP, Workday, or similar platforms) preferred.

Physical Requirements

This position requires 25% - 30% travel. The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.

Benefits

The targeted pay range for this role is $170,000-$180,000. The total compensation package for this position may also include applicable incentive compensation, such as an annual performance bonus.

Pay

The targeted pay range for this role is $170,000-$180,000.

Schedule

The Light & Wonder requires a minimum of four days per week in the office. The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.