Lead Payroll Specialist

Open Text

Open Text is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

At Open Text, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent that AI can’t replace to help us shape the future of information management.

As a Lead Payroll Specialist, you will own and drive end‑to‑end payroll operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery across the assigned payroll portfolio. You will act as a trusted expert, proactively identifying improvements, managing risks, and supporting audits, while contributing to a smooth and compliant payroll experience for employees and stakeholders.

• Start to end payroll processing for France and other EMEA payrolls; excellent knowledge of France payroll and employment compliance.
• Handle all payroll input/output, benefits administration, compliance administration, tax, and financial year‑end administration annually, quarterly and ad‑hoc.
• Oversee payment dispensations related to payroll activity.
• Support all admin tasks linked to payroll compliance.
• Maintain excellent attention to detail and be proactive, anticipating and preparing in advance.
• Plan and deliver on key tasks and deadlines.
• Train other team members and stay current with professional knowledge.
• Resolve queries and tickets from internal and external parties and auditors, ensuring timely submissions.
• Take responsibility as a self‑starter, delivering effective and efficient results.
• Investigate, perform root cause analysis, review processes and policies, identify risks and work with leads and managers to manage payroll operation risks.
• Support and lead large projects, delivering results in a given capacity.
• Manage team members’ operational activities and professional development.
• Assume regional or hub responsibilities.
• Ensure all operational processes and procedures are followed, leading continuous improvement, streamlining, harmonisation and automation.

• 8+ years of payroll experience with strong knowledge of finance, HR and compliance.
• Fluent communication in French.
• Keep payroll managers and lead payroll specialists informed about legislative changes, streamlining opportunities and risks.
• Proactive communication of issues or concerns, making decisions and discussing them with payroll leads and cross‑functional teams.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with cross‑functional teams, understanding their processes to anticipate risks.
• Communicate effectively to all audiences, both written and spoken.
• Lead payroll team meetings, discuss operational activities, streamlining, harmonisation and automation opportunities with excellent implementation and technical knowledge.
• Be a main contact for managing risks to payroll operations within the portfolio, supporting and guiding colleagues.
• Excellent communicator, capable of speaking to small or large audiences.

Salary Range: $x - $x; depending on the candidate’s education, experience, skills, geographic location and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

We offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page. As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Open Text’s commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, as expressed in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy, which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion or other basis protected by applicable laws.

As part of our commitment to transparency, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in various stages of our recruitment process, including resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling and communications. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, reduce bias and enhance candidate experience. All decisions regarding hiring are made by qualified human professionals, and we continuously monitor our AI systems to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable regulations.