Global Process Owner Payroll in England

The Global Process Owner (“GPO”) for Payroll is responsible for overseeing and optimizing payroll policies and processes across multiple regions and departments on a global scale. This leadership role ensures that processes are standardized, efficient, and aligned with the company's strategic goals. The GPO will drive continuous improvement initiatives, implement best practices, and maintain compliance with international regulations. They will work closely with cross‑functional teams to manage the end-to-end process, implement technology solutions, and ensure consistent quality and performance across all regions. The GPO plays a critical role in enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and improving the overall business process experience for both internal stakeholders and customers.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Process Improvement and Management: Initiates process and system changes and enhancements; works with the payroll operations team and other cross‑functional business partners to prioritize process and system improvement initiatives impacting the global payroll process, including planning, and managing the overall project roadmap. Drive improvements and establish best‑in‑class processes for global payroll and related programs which meet jurisdictional compliance requirements, deliver outstanding employee experience, and enable our global expansion programs. Draft the current “as‑is” and “to‑be” business process, business requirements, and use cases in the business case requirements document; signs off on the final business case; approves cross‑functional business requirements that impact the global payroll process.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain a relationship with key stakeholders within Finance, HR and other related business units, and continuously optimize the service delivery and leadership model. Prior to deploying new processes and significant system enhancements, confirm business readiness of the global payroll operations team; as needed, communicate process and system changes to the extended user community. Continuously partner with the HRIT, Benefits, Finance and other related organizations to ensure that the end‑to‑end payroll input and output processes are optimized. Communicate the priorities, partner requirements and sequential steps in operationalizing the Global payroll transformation roadmap and ensuring alignment across the organization.
• Payroll Transformation Projects: Develop policies and strategies for global payroll that enable centralized and simplified processes. Partner with HR Ops team to define and govern payroll policies. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including IT, Finance, and Supply Chain, to ensure seamless system implementation and functionality of new payroll systems. Develop Global Payroll Improvement roadmap with prioritization and impact. Establish a framework, structure, and processes to stabilize and sustain outcomes and delivery post‑launch; collaborating with and gaining cross‑functional partnership to enable and drive ownership of execution by respective teams.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Proven experience in payroll operations in a global organization.
• Experience with SAP, Workday, ADP payroll platforms, or other payroll systems.
• Expertise in the end‑to‑end global payroll process and high level of understanding of general business operations and internal control concepts; ability to assess and provide input into impact of a business process/system change.
• Ability to collaborate and gain input yet operate autonomously to make decisions in the gray space, taking calculated risk.
• Strong understanding of payroll, time and attendance, and employee data management processes.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Diplomacy and tact in navigating sensitive and confidential situations.
• Influence to bring expertise and translate technical details to non‑technical users or stakeholders of the systems.

TO APPLY

Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies. McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.