Senior Director of Global Payroll

What We Need

Corpay is currently looking to hire a Sr. Director, Global Payroll, within our Corpay Corporate division. This position falls under our Human Resources line of business and is located in Atlanta, GA. In this role, you will be accountable for the strategy, governance, execution, and continuous improvement of payroll across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

As the executive leader, you will ensure employees are paid accurately and on time, statutory obligations are met, controls are effective, and payroll services scale with business growth. You will report directly to the Senior VP, HR and regularly collaborate with Human Resources, Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit, Information Security, and business leaders.

As a Sr. Director, Global Payroll Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

• Assigned workspace in the Atlanta office
• Company-issued equipment
• Formal, hands-on training

• Define and execute a multi-year global payroll strategy aligned with enterprise growth, employee experience, risk tolerance, and financial objectives.
• Lead, develop, and retain high-performing regional payroll teams; establish clear accountabilities, service standards, succession plans, and professional development pathways.
• Create a consistent global operating model while preserving the local expertise and market-specific practices required for compliance.
• Chair payroll governance forums and provide executive-level reporting on service performance, control effectiveness, regulatory risk, transformation progress, and material issues.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for critical payroll incidents, directing root-cause analysis, remediation, employee communications, and prevention plans.

• Own end-to-end payroll delivery for regular, supplemental, off-cycle, bonus, commission, equity-related, termination, and other payments within scope.
• Ensure accurate and timely gross-to-net calculations, funding, payments, statutory remittances, reconciliations, year-end processing, and employee tax documentation.
• Establish globally consistent calendars, cutoffs, approvals, data-quality checks, exception management, and service-level agreements.
• Improve the employee and manager experience through clear communications, responsive case management, self-service, and measurable resolution standards.
• Maintain business continuity and disaster-recovery plans for payroll processing, funding, banking, critical vendors, and key-person dependencies.

• Maintain compliance with applicable wage-and-hour, tax withholding, social insurance, pension/superannuation, leave, termination, reporting, record-retention, data privacy, and payment requirements in every country of operation.
• Design and operate a robust payroll control framework, including segregation of duties, approval authorities, access controls, change controls, reconciliations, audit trails, and issue remediation.
• Partner with Legal, Tax, Finance, and local advisers to monitor regulatory change, assess impact, implement requirements, and document decisions.
• Support internal and external audits, statutory inspections, financial-control testing, and remediation activities; ensure evidence is complete, timely, and defensible.
• Protect sensitive employee and payroll data in partnership with Privacy and Information Security, including appropriate cross-border data handling and vendor controls.

• Own the payroll technology and integration roadmap across HRIS, time and attendance, benefits, finance/ERP, treasury, banking, tax, and…