Payroll & Total Rewards Director

• Lead the global Total Rewards and Payroll strategy, ensuring alignment with business and talent objectives
• Oversee compensation, benefits, payroll governance, and workforce cost management across multiple countries
• Ensure payroll accuracy, monitoring, controls, compliance, and reporting processes are effectively managed
• Drive salary reviews, bonus cycles, incentive programs, and reward frameworks to ensure competitiveness and internal equity
• Lead organizational design and workforce planning initiatives to support business transformation and operational efficiency
• Partner closely with Finance and HR leadership on budgeting, forecasting, payroll cost analysis, and workforce analytics
• Deliver HR dashboards, workforce metrics, and executive reporting to support strategic decision-making
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and drive continuous improvement initiatives across payroll and HR operations
• Lead and develop a high-performing team across Total Rewards, Payroll, HR Analytics, and Organizational Design
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on reward strategy, organizational effectiveness, and workforce cost efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field; postgraduate studies are a plus
• 10 years of HR experience, including significant exposure to Total Rewards, Payroll, HR Controlling, or Organizational Effectiveness
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience in a senior HR role within multinational or complex organizations
• Strong expertise in compensation & benefits, payroll governance, workforce planning, and HR analytics
• Solid understanding of organizational design, job architecture, and workforce cost management
• Strong financial and analytical skills, with experience in budgeting, forecasting, and payroll cost control
• Experience working in multinational environments; exposure to retail or technology sectors is considered a plus
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and project management skills
• Experience with HRIS, payroll systems, and reporting tools
• Fluent in English; additional languages will be considered an advantage

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Career development and growth opportunities