Job Title:
Senior Analyst, Payroll Governance
Overview:
Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Payroll Analyst to join our Payroll Governance team. This individual contributor role is responsible for defining, executing, and monitoring global payroll controls, ensuring compliance with SOX and internal governance standards, and maintaining audit readiness across a multinational payroll environment.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in payroll controls, audit support, and data governance, with the ability to partner across multiple teams to strengthen the global control environment and mitigate payroll risk.
Role
1. Payroll Controls Design & Governance
• Define, document, and maintain global operational and SOX payroll controls.
• Identify and design additional controls as needed to address emerging risks, regulatory changes, or audit findings.
• Ensure payroll control frameworks align with internal governance standards and SOX requirements.
• Partner with regional payroll leads to ensure controls are clearly understood, implemented consistently, and scalable globally.
2. Global Controls Execution & Monitoring
• Ensure payroll controls are executed consistently across all regions, including appropriate evidence collection and retention.
• Perform periodic control testing to assess design effectiveness and operating effectiveness.
• Monitor control execution status and follow up on missing or incomplete control evidence.
• Support remediation of control gaps, execution failures, or documentation deficiencies.
3. Audit Support & Risk Management
• Determine payroll audit readiness across regions by assessing control execution, documentation quality, and issue remediation status.
• Serve as a key liaison for internal and external payroll audits, partnering with regional payroll leads to coordinate responses.
• Liaise closely with the SOX team to support control testing, walkthroughs, and remediation activities.
• Prepare and review audit documentation, evidence packages, and responses to audit inquiries.
• Track audit findings, management responses, and remediation actions through closure.
4. User Access Reviews & Security Controls
• Perform User Access Reviews (UARs) for payroll systems to ensure appropriate segregation of duties and access controls.
• Manage the Logical Access Management (LMA) process, including access provisioning reviews, removals, and periodic recertifications.
• Partner with IT, Security, and Payroll teams to remediate access related risks and audit findings.
All About You
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in payroll compliance, SOX controls, audit, or payroll governance within a multinational environment.
• Strong understanding of global payroll processes, internal controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated experience defining, executing, and testing SOX and operational controls.
• Experience supporting internal and external audits, including audit readiness and remediation tracking.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong documentation capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across regions and functions.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, and able to manage multiple compliance deliverables concurrently.
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