Sr. Director Payroll
Hybrid (Austin, TX)$201.6kFull-timePosted 5d ago
About the role
Senior leadership role responsible for end-to-end global payroll operations, transformation, compliance, and employee experience across AMD’s global footprint, partnering with Finance, Tax, Legal, IT, and regional leaders to scale payroll operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a globally distributed payroll organization, establishing clear accountability, succession depth, and consistent capabilities across regions.
- Own end-to-end payroll delivery across countries and entities, including regular and off-cycle payrolls, terminations, equity and incentive payments, and year-end processing.
- Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll execution in accordance with local labor, tax, statutory, and reporting requirements.
- Establish and monitor global service standards, operational metrics, controls, audit readiness, and issue resolution, with clear regional accountability.
- Lead the global payroll and time-tracking transformation roadmap, including operating model design, process standardization, technology consolidation, vendor transitions, integrations, and change management.
- Define scalable global processes and controls that reduce unnecessary local variation while respecting statutory and business requirements.
- Partner with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Total Rewards, HR Technology, IT, and business leaders on payroll funding, accounting, reporting, data integrity, policy, and employee experience.
- Provide payroll leadership for mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, new-country or entity expansion, and major policy or program rollouts.
- Own payroll vendor and managed-service-provider strategy, including selection, contracts, service levels, governance, risk, and commercial performance.
- Serve as the senior subject matter expert and escalation point for complex global payroll, compliance, audit, and employee pay matters.
- Establish and execute an automation and AI roadmap for payroll, applying responsible solutions to validation, reconciliations, gross-to-net review, anomaly detection, case management, and self-service.
- Ensure automated and AI-enabled processes include appropriate data protection, human review, auditability, accuracy monitoring, and governance.
- Own payroll reporting, forecasting, and analytics, and provide executive-level visibility into payroll costs, service performance, risks, controls, and strategic initiatives.
- Foster a culture of execution excellence, continuous improvement, collaboration, inclusion, and employee-centered service.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
Required:Global payroll managementPayroll transformationU.S. payroll & tax knowledge
Benefits
- Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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