Head of Global Payroll, Workday
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree Business, Finance, Accounting or relevant field
- 10+ Years payroll leadership experience in a high growth public company
- Experience leading global payroll teams across different time zones and countries
- Experience with several cross-functional payroll projects (working with human resources, benefits, compensation or other teams)
- Knowledge of accounting, HCM and payroll systems
- A passion for people, processes, innovation and process improvements
- Experienced in applying concepts/philosophies for appropriate problem-solving and decision-making
- Proven ability to be highly collaborative
- Excellent interpersonal abilities, and communication skills
- Driven to make a positive difference with the team and with the company
- A track record of transformation with a strategic vision for the team and an ability to execute
What the job involves
- Oversee payroll policies, procedures and systems to ensure timely and accurate payment of a global workforce
- Set global payroll strategy and enable team to execute on that strategy
- Monitor all payrolls to ensure audit procedures exist to identify risk (both departmental and SOX)
- Own all key department processes and key controls to ensure risks are identified and the correct controls are in place to eliminate or reduce risk
- Lead payroll compliance team to ensure compliance with existing and emerging compliance regulations on a global basis
- Lead payroll mobility team to properly handle withholding and reporting for mobile members of our workforce – including tax equalization, and shadow payrolls
- Consult with legal and other internal and external advisors on resolution to various situations that arise
- Ensure strong customer service and communication from payroll to the employee population
- Collaborate closely with people and purpose team on identification of employee related benefits and execution of changes
- Establish and manage annual payroll budget
- Manage vendor relationships with payroll vendors and external consulting firms
- Provide leadership and career development for the team
- Engage with Workday customers and prospects to showcase the workday system
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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