Payroll & Implementation Specialist, Clio

• You’re a detail-oriented, audit-minded payroll professional who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments
• You bring strong project ownership, a compliance mindset, and experience supporting payroll implementations, vendor changes, major system updates, and operational change
• You’re comfortable partnering across teams, managing multiple priorities, and getting hands-on in payroll operations to ensure successful delivery
• 5+ years of payroll experience, with exposure to global payroll operations, payroll implementations, transformations, or major process and system changes
• Strong knowledge of payroll operations and controls, including reconciliations, approvals, variance analysis, audit-ready documentation, and compliance-focused process design
• Experience supporting vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, or system upgrades that impact payroll inputs, deductions, funding, reporting, or employee experience
• Strong project management and cross-functional partnership skills, with the ability to coordinate across Payroll, HRIS, Benefits, Finance, Legal, and People teams
• Familiarity with payroll platforms and tools such as CloudPay, Remote, Workday integrations, or similar systems
• A high level of attention to detail, ownership, and comfort working independently in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Demonstrated interest in elevating your craft using AI

Desirable

• We are currently seeking a Payroll & Implementation Specialist to join our Payroll team
• As a Payroll & Implementation Specialist, you’ll lead global payroll projects and transformation initiatives, including system implementations, vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, major system updates and upgrades, country launches, and M&A integrations
• You’ll help ensure payroll and benefits-related changes are delivered safely, compliantly, and with strong operational adoption
• Lead global payroll projects end-to-end, including implementations, migrations, vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, major system updates/upgrades, country launches, and M&A integrations
• Support discovery, requirements gathering, current- and future-state process mapping, data readiness, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare for payroll and benefits-related changes
• Partner cross-functionally with PSA (HRIS), Total Rewards, Benefits, Finance, Legal, and regional People teams to ensure payroll and benefit changes are implemented safely, compliantly, and with strong operational adoption
• Support payroll processing and key validations to understand current-state workflows, identify risks or control gaps, and improve implementation outcomes
• Help strengthen payroll controls, documentation, audit readiness, and continuous improvement efforts across systems, processes, and vendor-supported workflows