Payroll Transformation Lead

Job Description

Job Description

This is a remote position, the selected candidate can reside and perform the work from anywhere within the United States.

As a Global Payroll Transformation Lead, you will have the opportunity to contribute the business strategy across functional areas, enable payroll operational excellence through transforming and automating processes and integrating latest technology. You will be working with internal and external stakeholders to align on the best solution and practices on the market to meet specific business objectives.

This position will enable you lead technological advancements and solutioning through understanding company needs and the current technology development on the market and industry. This is an exciting opportunity to work with global and diverse teams of professionals across the GM Globally and be able to create positive and rapid impact to the GM Family and your professional growth.

Role Responsibilities

The transformations specialist is expected to lead the business side of global payroll process improvement and standardization. Working closely with HR, finance, people services, IT and other global payroll teams to define the current process gaps, market best practice standard processes, and lead end to end transformation initiatives. Additional responsibilities include:

• Lead system implementation projects
• Work with global cross-functional teams to define payroll operation templates
• Benchmark processes with other similar structured companies.
• Identify gaps with Best in Class and opportunities to consolidate and improve processes
• Identify any risks regarding changes and develop a strategy to address them
• Lead in-country local business team to migrate local payroll processes to the global payroll standards
• Deploy common processes, re-engineer and streamline work efforts
• Implement common KPIs/metrics across all countries
• Develop and present improvement recommendations to other members of the organization
• Identify any potential financial impact and ability to seek the appropriate guidance from the respective technical groups

Role Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, HR, or IT or related areas
• Project Management and Global system deployment experience
• Knowledge of functional payroll systems/processes understanding (Power BI, Workday, etc.) helpful
• Ability to work cross-functionally with all levels of the organization
• Ability to manage data that includes entry, storage, organization and analysis of data
• Excellent communication, team building and planning skills
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities, handle multiple projects and manage time effectively
• Analytical savvy, technical & problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated process improvement and technology thinking skills
• Proactive work style, desire to take on additional responsibilities
• Ability to work independently
• Available to travel up to 20% as needed

Additional Job Description

Compensation: The median level of salary compensation for this role is $109,283.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

The policy of General Motors is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, General Motors is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected] . In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.