Senior Global Payroll Operations Manager

At Cloud Factory, we are a mission-driven team passionate about unlocking the potential of AI to transform the world. By combining advanced technology with a global network of talented people, we make unusable data usable, driving real-world impact at scale.

More than just a workplace, we’re a global community founded on strong relationships and the belief that meaningful work transforms lives. Our commitment to earning, learning, and serving fuels everything we do as we strive to connect one million people to meaningful work and build leaders worth following.

Our Culture

At Cloud Factory, we believe in building a workplace where everyone feels empowered, valued, and inspired to bring their authentic selves to work. We are:

• Mission-Driven:
  We focus on creating economic and social impact.
• People-Centric:
  We care deeply about our team’s growth, well-being, and sense of belonging.
• Innovative:
  We embrace change and find better ways to do things together.
• Globally Connected:
  We foster collaboration between diverse cultures and perspectives.

If you’re passionate about innovation, collaboration, and making a real impact, we’d love to have you on board!

We are seeking a senior-level professional to lead our mission critical payroll operations, owning and overseeing the end-to-end payroll and pay ecosystem globally. This role is designed as a hands‑on expert with deep executional ownership, operating with high autonomy in a complex, global environment.

The role will be responsible to work closely with Technology, Delivery, Finance, Legal, and external payroll providers to ensure payroll and pay processes are accurate, compliant, scalable, and delivered with operational excellence. While this role also contributes to broader compensation strategy and governance, its primary focus is on pay execution, payroll integrity, and operational rigor.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong analytical capability with exceptional attention to detail, and who thrives in environments where precision, accountability, and cross‑functional collaboration are critical.

• Lead the end-to-end global payroll operations, including governance, timelines, controls, validation, and issue resolution across multiple countries and employment models.
• Act as the single point of accountability for payroll accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Partner with external payroll vendors and internal Finance and Tech teams to ensure seamless execution and continuous improvement.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve payroll discrepancies, root causes, and systemic issues.
• Drive standardization and documentation of payroll processes, controls, and escalation paths.

• Elevate payroll to strategic insights by transforming raw payroll data into executive‑ready insights, proactively identifying cost drivers, operational risks, and opportunities for global process optimization and efficiency gains through automation.
• Establish data governance by designing and owning the strategic roadmap for payroll data integrity, reporting, and analytics, partnering with Finance to ensure seamless reconciliation, variance analysis, and accurate financial forecasting.
• Develop and maintain a suite of clear, reliable metrics and executive dashboards that provide senior leadership with the foresight needed to make informed decisions regarding global workforce cost and operational performance.

• Act as the primary strategic partner to Technology, Finance, Delivery, and Talent leadership, championing the design and control of reliable, scalable payroll systems, integrations, and data flows.
• Provide trusted, expert guidance to senior leaders on global payroll complexity, regulatory trade‑offs, and risk mitigation strategies related to workforce changes.
• Govern cross‑functional processes with Finance (funding, accounting, audits) and Technology (system integrity) to ensure operational rigor and maintain a highly controlled, compliant, and scalable global pay ecosystem.

• Ensure payroll compliance with local…