GBS – Global Payroll Principal Analyst, Americas

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

Responsibilities & Key Competencies include:

• Provide thought leadership to deliver a world-class payroll services
• Capable of acting as a change manager to create new relationship opportunities with payroll teams around the globe
• Ability to manage and inspire cross-functional global teams
• Ability to formulate and articulate a perspective and present it in a way to create understanding and alignment
• Strong financial acumen to develop business cases and to ensure successful implementation of the solutions
• Support delivery of policy change

Project Management

• Create, manage, and track progress against the project plan consisting of multiple service lines and tracks of work
• Manage cross-division and cross-function initiative interdependencies and securing required resources and funding. Where necessary, facilitate prioritization regarding shared resources across workstreams
• Track and manage risks, actions, issues, decisions, and metrics for the overall project
• Escalate and drive risks and issues to resolution
• Manage project business case realization
• Manage and report on project financial spend to budget

Execution

• Deliver to project objectives, deliverables, workplan, and charters
• Ensure delivery of new business processes, capabilities and new tools
• Ensure the GBS project team members are completing deliverables in alignment with the timelines
• Directs project execution by assigning tasks, managing project resources, working with subject matter resources, tracking project schedules, mitigating risks/issues, and developing and executing contingency plans

Change Management

• Ensure project has a robust strategy and plan for change management. Ensure delivery of the strategy and plan
• Ensure execution of the project communication and training plan
• Influence and collaborate with key stakeholders, including; Divisional Leadership, GBS and GBS stakeholders, Global Finance, Information Systems, and functional leads

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 7+ years business experience working and leading payroll operations, leadership related projects including system implementations and acquisitions especially in the Americas
• The position requires strong leadership, collaboration, project management, communication, and change management skills.
• Experience leading global and transformational cross-functional projects
• Organizational skills and clear and concise communications are a MUST
• Business acumen and critical thinking that can lead teams to solutions
• Demonstrated proficiency to effectively present complex topics in an easy-to-understand manner and facilitating meetings with directors, vice presidents, and business owners
• Ability to diagnose problems which could be related to strategy, process, technology, or people and put in place appropriate actions/measures
• Functional knowledge of payroll and other financial through the full life-cycle
• Must be a self-starter and quick learner with ability to assertively engage with resources at all levels within the organization
• Proven capacity to manage simultaneous processes from start to finish
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft suites (O365, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
• Experience partnering with the Information Systems department and leading system implementation projects
• Global awareness and sensitive to multiple cultures
  • Language: Fluent in English. Spanish and Portuguese is a plus
  • Shared Services Experience is a global/regional environment
• Travel: Occasional, limited travel, occasionally international, to other BSC sites may be required

Benefits

• Life-Work Integration
• Community
• Career Growth