Payroll Input Management & Reconciliation Manage and govern payroll-related inputs across Europe & Americas regions, ensuring timely and accurate submission before payroll cut-off. Perform end-to-end reconciliation of payroll-impacting data across Employee Central, SAP, ADP, and related payroll systems. Validate effective dates, pay-impacting fields, and manual payroll inputs to minimize defects and ensure payroll accuracy. Investigate discrepancies, replication failures, and data mismatches across systems and drive timely resolution. Support payroll readiness by ensuring transactions are processed in line with service level expectations and compliance requirements. Coordinate with internal and external teams to ensure clarity on payroll inputs, ownership, dependencies and escalation paths. Manage stakeholder communications for issues related to payroll data flow, manual interventions, and process exceptions. Support transition and centralization initiatives by aligning on operating models, responsibilities, and controls. Process Governance & Controls Contribute to the development and adherence of RACI, escalation frameworks, and payroll control mechanisms. Ensure audit readiness through accurate documentation, process traceability, and compliance with payroll and employee data standards. Support continuous review of desktop procedures, knowledge articles, and process documentation. Work across Employee Central (EC), SAP, ADP, and related systems to process, validate, and troubleshoot payroll-impacting changes. Support payroll process centralization by identifying process gaps, handoff risks, and opportunities for simplification. Collaborate on system and workflow improvements that reduce manual effort and improve data quality. Contribute to initiatives focused on reducing manual touchpoints, increasing efficiency, and improving stakeholder experience. 5-7 years of experience in payroll operations, employee data, or a related HR shared services environment. Strong experience in managing payroll inputs, validations, and reconciliation activities. Good understanding of payroll operations across Europe and Americas or multi-country environments. Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across functional and regional teams. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven environment. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Experience working with SAP, ADP, and Employee Central (EC). Knowledge of payroll integrations, payroll cut-off governance, and replication/reconciliation concepts. Experience in global payroll centralization or payroll transformation initiatives. Familiarity with low-code / no-code platforms for workflow automation and process improvement. Exposure to compliance, audit controls, and operational governance in payroll or employee data environments.
