Global Payroll Process Lead (f/m/d)

Location: Hybrid (Remote/Office) in Poland (Krakow, Wrocław, or Warsaw), Czechia (Prague), or Portugal (Lisbon).

Company

hirify.global is an energy technology company with approximately 100,000 employees in more than 90 countries, developing energy systems and technologies supporting the energy transition.

What you will do

• Define and maintain the global Payroll service scope, service catalogue, critical process inventory, and ownership model.
• Ensure payroll processes, country specifics, handover documents, operational dependencies, and local deviations are captured before transition.
• Act as design authority for Payroll standards, controls, exception principles, and decision rights during the lift-and-drop phase.
• Confirm payroll readiness by country, provider, process, and control area, and identify and escalate risks affecting pay, compliance, finance posting, payments, or audit evidence.
• Own global Payroll service governance and govern shared service centre and vendor delivery against standards, service expectations, controls, and KPIs.
• Approve process changes and local deviations, maintain the service evolution roadmap, and provide expertise for acquisitions, country moves, vendor or system changes, and regulatory impacts.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of deep end-to-end Payroll experience across multi-country, outsourced, co-sourced, or shared-service environments on a global scale.
• Strong knowledge of payroll controls, statutory requirements, payroll calendars, sign-off, payment controls, and post-payroll activities.
• Experience governing vendors, shared services, regions, and country teams through clear service ownership methods.
• Ability to translate operational complexity into global standards, make issue decisions, and establish pragmatic governance guardrails.
• Strong stakeholder management across HR, Finance, Tax, Treasury, IT, Compliance, and external providers.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work culture with colleagues from more than 130 nationalities.
• Career growth and development opportunities.
• Company-paid health and wellness benefits.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• Opportunity to work with a global team.
• Additional country-specific rewards discussed with the hiring team.