Harbor

Global Payroll Manager

Harbor
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaSeniorLeadWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in managing multi-country payroll operations with a strong focus on compliance, process optimization, and team leadership. Proficient in Workday Payroll, including configuration, reporting, and integrations, while ensuring confidentiality and data protection.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Workday Payroll ExpertiseMulti-Country Payroll ManagementTeam Leadership and DevelopmentCompliance and Data PrivacyAdvanced Excel Proficiency

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own accurate, confidential, and timely delivery of payroll across the U.S., UK, Canada, and additional jurisdictions
  • Manage multi-country payrolls delivered through a PEO partner, including payroll review and approval, issue resolution, compliance oversight, and service-level management
  • Review and approve payroll inputs, reconciliations, variance analyses, and reports
  • Liaise with Finance on payroll reporting requirements
  • Maintain accurate payroll database information
  • Process payroll data for employee lifecycle events, including hires, salary increases, bonuses, commissions, garnishments, benefit deductions, and separations
  • Calculate adjustments, special pays, retroactive payments, overpayments, separation payments, and manual payments
  • Prepare payroll-related year-end schedules and verify year-end returns
  • Track time-entry compliance and oversee timesheet adjustments
  • Support audits, unemployment claims, employment-verification requests, and employee payroll inquiries
  • Improve payroll processes through automation, Workday functionality, standardized processes, data-driven insights, and vendor management
  • Support payroll integration activities for acquisitions, new countries, and organizational growth
  • Serve as payroll subject-matter expert for Workday, Rise, OSV, integrations, configurations, testing, reporting, controls, and future payroll solutions
  • Validate benefit system configurations and deductions, process benefit-related payroll entries, and assist with healthcare renewals and open enrollment
  • Lead, mentor, and scale a global payroll team while establishing operating rhythms, service standards, procedures, coaching, and performance metrics

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • At least seven years of progressive payroll experience, including ownership of complex, multi-country or multi-jurisdictional payroll operations
  • Strong knowledge of global and multi-jurisdictional employment, payroll, tax, and pay-practice requirements
  • Advanced, hands-on Workday Payroll experience in Canada, U.S. and UK, including configuration, testing, integrations, reporting, troubleshooting, and process optimization; required
  • Experience with ADP and OSV strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated experience managing, coaching, and developing a team of payroll professionals across countries or time zones
  • Strict adherence to confidentiality, data privacy, and data protection
  • Ability to understand benefit plans and application to payroll
  • Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and highly organized
  • Strong customer service, communication, and time management skills
  • Strong mathematical skills and ability to perform accurate calculations
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to determine root causes of issues and find solutions
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including strong use of Excel to generate and analyze complex reports

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Full-time, fully remote work arrangement
  • Opportunity to work from anywhere in the United States during CST/EST hours
  • Professional development and continuous learning opportunities in Workday, compliance, tax, controls, and regional regulations
  • Coaching and professional development as part of team management responsibilities

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Hard Skills
Payroll ProcessingPayroll ReconciliationVariance AnalysisPayroll ReportingCalculating AdjustmentsPayroll Database ManagementAudit SupportBenefit Deductions ProcessingTime-Entry Compliance TrackingData-Driven Insights
Soft Skills
Detail-OrientedSelf-MotivatedHighly OrganizedStrong Customer ServiceEffective Communication
Tools & Technologies
WorkdayADPOSVMicrosoft OfficeExcel
Industry Keywords
Global PayrollMulti-Jurisdictional PayrollEmployment ComplianceTax RequirementsPay-Practice Requirements