Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services

Thermo Fisher Scientific - Pittsburgh, PA

Full-time - Manager

Pittsburgh, PA

10,001+ employees

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are crucial to our business, enabling educated and sound decisions that drive our Mission and establish us as a stable and trusted industry leader. The Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services plays a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of both large and small scale programs and projects within the global payroll organization. This includes overseeing various acquisitions and implementations, managing costs, quality, planning, resource allocation, and benefits realization. The successful candidate will ensure that all projects adhere to best practices and standard approaches for Thermo Fisher, ensuring controlled execution and timely achievement of goals. The Senior Manager will implement standard methodologies to enable the successful delivery of a broad scope of country payroll programs across Thermo Fisher's global footprint. Key responsibilities include scope management, project vision and blueprint development, benefits and quality management, partner management, portfolio management, and program planning. Integral to these responsibilities will be financial management, maintaining logs of risks, issues, assumptions, actions, resource forecasting, change control, dependency management, and project reporting. This role requires a strategic mindset and execution skills, with a proven track record in the payroll space and the ability to influence both internal and external partners. In this highly visible role, the Senior Payroll Manager will oversee 8 - 12 project managers and the global payroll portfolio of projects. Collaboration with business partners and key vendors (such as ADP and Workday) is essential to ensure project execution is timely, accurate, and within budget. The Senior Payroll Manager will serve as the subject matter expert regarding payroll capabilities, supporting the Payroll Director to optimize Global Payroll performance and GBS value. This role will also involve identifying key initiatives for actionable improvements, addressing training needs, mentoring employees, and supervising portfolio progress to create a stable, standardized, and consistent approach that meets and exceeds customer and leadership expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day activities of 8 - 12 project managers across the globe.
• Establish and maintain a program road map from concept to conclusion.
• Ensure alignment of project scope and schedule to meet project objectives.
• Demonstrate wide-ranging experience and use professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues.
• Set standards and processes for the portfolio and ensure all constituents are aligned.
• Ensure legal and compliance considerations are fully accounted for in all requirements.
• Facilitate meetings regarding portfolio on a regular basis.
• Handle small and large tasks and time allocations for multiple projects and across multiple departments simultaneously.
• Lead project-related reporting and communication.
• Compile and lead project related financial and important metric information.
• Coordinate project closure to distill good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.
• Ensure efficient change control methods and processes are used.
• Ability to coordinate across cross-functionally.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and work-related experience, required.
• Extensive experience working in a multifaceted payroll position within a global delivery environment, required.
• Experienced knowledge of ADP GlobalView/Celergo, Workday HCM/Time and/or mergers & acquisitions, required.
• Advanced program or project management experience in the global payroll space, required.
• Strong leadership presence, required.

Nice-to-haves

• CPP/PMP certification, a plus.
• APAC, EMEA and LATAM payroll knowledge, preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Annual incentive plan bonus
• Healthcare
• Range of employee benefits
• Outstanding career and development prospects
• Innovative and forward-thinking organization
• Exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.