Western Digital Director Global Payroll Services 

Mexico, Veracruz 

370564861

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

As the Director of Global Payroll Services, you will lead and mentor the global payroll delivery team to ensure that payroll is processed smoothly and accurately across the organization and over 30 countries including direct labor in manufacturing sites. You will be a key partner for our stakeholders and payroll-managed service providers, using the latest technologies, such as Workday HR, Dayforce, and ADP Payroll Suites, to improve and streamline our processes. You will ensure that payroll is done correctly, efficiently, and on time and that we comply with each country's relevant payroll and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

· Collaborate with IT, Consultants, and cross-functional team leaders for timely and successful delivery of global projects.

· Partner with IT and payroll team in collaborative way to set a strategic direction for global payroll, time keeping, and attendance systems.

· Ensure development of a high-performing, service-oriented team with a focus on technology-oriented process improvement and compliance with Federal, State, and other jurisdictions tax and labor law requirements.

· Responsible for payroll audits to comply with SOX and local country-specific requirements.

Qualification and Skills:

· 15+ years of global payroll processing and management experience, experience in global expansion and setup, M&A integration, and vendor management.

· Technical and working knowledge of global payroll accounting rules and standards.

· Experience in ADP or other leading payroll systems, business process outsourcing, and stakeholder management.

· Strong change management skills with an ability to manage internal stakeholders to ensure payroll operations are compliant while meeting business objectives.

· Advanced working knowledge of global payroll operations, including regulations, taxes, C&B, and equity reporting.

· High degree of understanding of time keeping and attendance processes and payroll operations.

· Thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, and excels in highly complex situations with flexibility, creativity, efficiency, and prioritization.

· Strong leadership skills in building high-performing teams with mentorship driven team development.

· Bachelor’s degree with a focus on accounting, or business-related field preferred.

· Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation preferred.

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.