Senior Director, Global Payroll

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership over the 100+ member global payroll function responsible for the accurate, timely, compliant delivery of recurring bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly payroll for all ≈ 83,000+ Cisco worldwide employees.
• Complete regional and local payroll compliance, including related tax filings and payments, as well as preparation of periodic regulatory reporting documents (eg Form W-2, 941).
• Acquisition integration, including partnering with Cisco’s Mergers &Acquisition teams on migration of acquired company payroll platforms to Cisco standard processes and tools.
• Partner with other Cisco functions (IT, P&C) as well as the Finance Transformation Office (FTO) on transformation projects.
• Drive continuous process, efficiency, and control improvements, including with upstream business partners whose processes impact payroll.
• Lead quarterly Payroll Quality Service Reviews for Financial Shared Services organization.
• Manage key vendor relationships with payroll platform and managed services payroll vendor.
• Accountability for payroll team budget, including both people and vendor related elements.
• Career development of key resources with a focus on leadership and global process management skills. Facilitate career development pathways for direct reports as well as key staff members in aggregate payroll team.

Qualification & Requirements

Key skills and Capabilities:

• Strong executive management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills.
• System acumen as well as experience and / or knowledge of the high-volume global transaction processes
• Strong leadership, change management, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, implement, and monitor a strong control and compliance framework.

Our minimum requirements for this role:

• Minimum 15 years experience in payroll, including experience leading a global payroll organization

Benefits

• Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation Policy
• Other Perks and Benefits…