The North America Payroll Director leads the company’s payroll function and team for approximately 17,000 employees across all U.S. states and Canadian provinces.

• Develop and execute a strategic plan to optimize the North American payroll practices, team, and technology.
• Design and implement workflows and internal controls to ensure payroll is consistently accurate, timely and in compliance with all applicable laws.
• Ensure compliance with federal, provincial, state and local payroll and wage tax requirements.
• Working closely with IT, evaluate current and alternative payroll technology, and implement improvements to payroll processing and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to increase efficiencies and synergies, streamline processes to enhance the end-user experience and execute accordingly.
• Develop reporting capabilities, providing data analytics and metrics to support decisions.
• Oversee payroll administration through the company’s shared service center and field HR. team members.
• Participate in recruiting, training and developing payroll experts at the company’s shared service center and local HR.
• Participate in acquisition due diligence and integration.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 10 years leading multiple high-volume, high-frequency multi-state, and province hourly and salaried payrolls within an organization of more than 5,000 employees.
• Demonstrated experience building or transforming a large-scale payroll function.
• Demonstrated experience leading and executing large-scale projects.
• Experience managing acquisition payroll integration.
• Experience with SAP and SuccessFactors highly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in system implementations preferred.
• Travel Requirements: Up to 15-25%, including international

Additional Requirements

• Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety and environmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors.
• Successful candidates must adhere to all safety protocols and proper use of Holcim approved Personal Protection Equipment (“PPE”), including but not limited to respirators. Subject to applicable law, employees that are required to wear respirators must be clean shaven where the respirator seal meets the face in order to pass the qualitative and quantitative fit tests.