Global Payroll and HR Technology Lead – Workday
Galderma
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Krakow • Poland
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About the role
- Own and oversee global payroll delivery performance across all countries, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll outcomes.
- Establish and maintain a global payroll operating model, including roles and responsibilities, governance forums, escalation paths, and service performance standards.
- Define and monitor payroll KPIs/SLAs (accuracy, timeliness, controls, cost-to-serve, issue resolution), driving continuous improvement and transparency.
- Lead global and cross-country payroll projects (e.g., vendor transitions, process standardization, system changes, harmonization of calendars/cut-offs, control improvements).
- Act as overall project manager for payroll initiatives: scope, business case, planning, stakeholder management, risk/issues, decision-making cadence, and delivery governance.
- Own HR technology governance for Workday (and connected HR applications), ensuring system integrity, security-by-design, and stable operations.
- Provide functional leadership on Workday architecture and configuration choices, ensuring consistent design principles and controlled change.
- Govern the integration landscape between Workday and downstream/upstream systems, ensuring stable interfaces and clear ownership.
- Enable reporting and people analytics needs by ensuring accurate data structures, consistent definitions, and fit-for-purpose reporting solutions.
Requirements
- Significant experience in global payroll leadership and/or multi-country payroll operations in a matrix, international environment.
- Demonstrated project leadership experience delivering complex, cross-country payroll and/or HR technology initiatives.
- Strong Workday functional knowledge, including governance, configuration principles, release/change management, and reporting foundations.
- Solid understanding of HR master data concepts, integrations, and end-to-end HR/payroll process dependencies.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to translate operational data into actions, prioritization, and business cases.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills across HR, Finance, IT, vendors, and senior leadership.
- Strong risk/control mindset (audit readiness, internal controls, data privacy, segregation of duties).
- Fluent English (written and spoken).
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Hard Skills & Tools
global payroll deliverypayroll KPIspayroll SLAsproject managementHR technology governanceWorkday architecturedata structuresreporting solutionsHR master data conceptsintegrations
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementanalytical skillsrisk/control mindsetcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingprioritizationdecision-makingcontinuous improvementtransparency