Payroll, Travel & Expense Lead

Payroll, Travel & Expense Lead

The Payroll, Travel & Expense Lead will play a critical role in managing payroll execution and corporate expense operations within a managed-service environment. This position offers an opportunity to support both payroll and travel and expense operations, providing exposure to U.S. and selected international payroll processes while contributing to process improvements and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate biweekly U.S. payroll activities and support payroll processing for selected international employee populations.
• Collect, organize, and validate payroll inputs before sending data to external payroll providers.
• Review provider outputs for accuracy, completeness, and reasonableness.
• Reconcile payroll activity according to established procedures and control requirements.
• Work with People partners and vendors to investigate payroll issues and determine corrective actions.
• Respond to questions from employees, business teams, accounting partners, and external providers.
• Assist Compensation Accounting with payroll-accounting inquiries.
• Complete SOX and audit-control procedures and retain appropriate support.
• Support routine operations, process improvements, and special initiatives.
• Administer the corporate-card program, including applications, credit-limit changes, cancellations, payments, and reconciliations.
• Coordinate with Finance Global Business Services, Expense Accounting, Business Operations, department leaders, external providers, and credit partners.
• Explain corporate-card and expense-reporting policies to employees and stakeholders.
• Respond to employee service tickets and troubleshoot Workday-related process or system issues.
• Enforce travel and expense policies and support related compliance activities.
• Follow up on delinquent expense balances and reimbursement collections involving separated employees.

Essential Skills

• Payroll Operations
• Payroll Reconciliation
• Microsoft Excel
• Payroll Compliance
• Payroll Controls
• Workday HCM
• Workday Payroll
• EMEA Payroll
• APAC Payroll
• Payroll Tax

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Four to six or more years of payroll and/or travel and expense experience.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliverables in a dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, planning, and organizational ability.
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently, within an internal team, and with outside vendors.
• Resourceful, adaptable approach to new processes and operational challenges.
• Understanding of payroll processes and applicable regulations.

Work Environment

This role operates in a cross-functional corporate payroll and expense environment, involving frequent collaboration with internal People, Finance, Accounting, Business Operations, and department stakeholders. The position requires regular interaction with outsourced payroll and expense providers, and is tied to deadline-driven work involving payroll calendars, reconciliations, controls, and employee inquiries. Eligible full-time employees receive a benefits package that includes PTO, paid holidays, sick time, parental leave, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, and life and AD&D insurance, subject to applicable plan terms.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of New York, NY.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $78750.00 - $90000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits (subject to the terms of applicable plans/policies/agreements, which will be made available to you after commencing employment), including: 20 days of PTO, approximately 13 paid holidays, and 80 hours of paid sick time per full calendar year; 16 weeks paid parental leave; competitive healthcare benefits; 401k plan; and life and AD&D insurance.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in New York, NY.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 6, 2026.