Lead End-to-End Payroll Process Design: Analyze current global payroll workflows to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and areas for standardization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design streamlined, compliant, and scalable payroll processes that align with organizational goals and local regulations. Drive Process Optimization and Automation: Apply process improvement methodologies, such as Lean Six Sigma, to enhance payroll system efficiency. Identify opportunities for automation using the latest HR technologies to reduce manual intervention, minimize errors, and accelerate processing times. Partner with Stakeholders: Work closely with People Services, People Technology & Experience team, Centers of Excellence, and external vendors to implement new payroll solutions and ensure seamless integration of systems across multiple geographies. Ensure Compliance and Internal Controls: Develop and embed robust controls within payroll processes to meet internal policies, SOX requirements, and country-specific legal standards, safeguarding data accuracy and confidentiality. Support Payroll Process Implementation: Lead and support the rollout of newly designed payroll processes, providing training, documentation, and change management guidance to internal teams and end users. Leverage Data and Analytics: Collaborate with analytics teams to collect, monitor, and interpret payroll data, developing KPIs and dashboards to measure process effectiveness and drive data-driven decision making for continuous improvement. Champion Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of innovation by regularly reviewing payroll operations, soliciting feedback, and implementing best practices to elevate the employee experience and maintain payroll excellence worldwide. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year's holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Analytics, Operations Management, or relevant field - Preferred OR relevant 7+ years of relevant work experience. Proficient in evaluating existing process flows for Workday/Payroll, mapping against functionality available vs used, developing new process flows and/or implementing new functional capabilities to improve service delivery that yield a higher degree of customer centricity/intuitiveness. 5+ years of proven relevant work experience in process design/redesign and change management. Solid technical skills and understanding of systems architecture of Workday, ServiceNow, Payroll, other systems/platforms. Experience with quality management, process simulations and creating detailed standard operating procedures. Proficiency in data analysis, with the ability to leverage HR metrics and analytics tools. Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to identify and address process gaps. Strong project management abilities, including the capacity to support in planning, execution, and monitoring projects within set timelines. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders within all levels of an organization. Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and precision in process design and documentation. Lean Six Sigma Certification, desired