About the Role
- Country: PORTUGAL
- State/Province/County: Lisboa
- City: Lisbon
- Country: PORTUGAL
- State/Province/County: Porto
- City: Porto
- Country: ROMANIA
- State/Province/County: Bucuresti
- City: Bucharest
- Country: CZECHIA
- State/Province/County: Praha, Hlavni mesto
- City: Prague
- Country: CZECHIA
- State/Province/County: Jihomoravsky kraj
- City: Brno
We are looking for a senior leader to be responsible for defining, driving and implementing the overall strategy and governance for payroll and time & attendance (T&A) globally with the support of a team of global experts, driving standardization & efficient / lean processes, working with internal and external partners. This role will also work closely with the Regional teams responsible for day to day execution as well as third party providers. This senior role is key ensuring strong governance over payroll and T&A operations as well as to the success of our transformation away from Siemens AG towards a self-sufficient, effective and efficient setup for a global player in energy technology with 100,000 employees in 90+ countries.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Highly Experienced in HR Operations, Payroll Management and T&A
- Multi-country and multi-provider payroll service delivery
- Expertise in diverse Payroll service delivery models, including full outsourcing
- Transformation Projects within HR Operations, Payroll and T&A
- In-depth knowledge of HR and payroll principles and practices
- Good understanding of HCM systems and dependencies with Payroll (Workday HCM experience preferable)
- Good understanding and experience with T&A solutions i.e UKG
- Strong Leadership and solution oriented skills
- Collaborative style, happy to interact with many stakeholders e.g., in HR Centers of Competence and HR in the Regions, IT department, Finance department, management...
- Able to build trust and empower teams to deliver successfully
- Thrives in a global environment, working flexibly where required
- Prepared to work in English language most of the time
- Lead the payroll and T&A transformation globally ensuring standardization of payroll operations during payroll implementations and transitions
- Own governance of payroll and T&A operations, working closely with the regional execution teams and third party providers
- Act as process /service owner in various payroll and T&A initiatives and maximize the effectiveness of tools and supporting processes to drive continuous improvement and change initiatives
- Drive the definition of global principles and standards for payroll and T&A processing and guarantee consistency across the regions and including efforts towards global process standardization while allowing local flexibility when required
- Ensure process design and control framework is implemented and actively supervised, supports fiscal and regulatory compliance requirements and is in alignment with the Global strategy
- Collaborate with and request feedback from internal and external business partners and other functions and process owners across the organization to ensure processes, roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and followed and payroll operations run successfully

