Senior Director Global Payroll Operations
Acuity
Senior Director Global Payroll Operations
Acuity
Accounting services from bookkeeping to CFOs
Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.
We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.
Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.
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The Senior Director, Global Payroll & Time is responsible for the strategy, operating model, transformation, and end-to-end delivery of payroll and time services across the global enterprise. This leader will establish and execute a multi-year strategy that delivers accurate, timely, compliant, and scalable services while creating a consistent experience for associates and leaders across countries. This role requires more than deep payroll knowledge or implementation experience. The Senior Director must be an enterprise leader who can translate business strategy into a global payroll and time roadmap, influence senior executives, lead through organizational complexity, and create accountability across internal teams, business stakeholders, technology partners, and third-party providers. The role requires practical knowledge of artificial intelligence and the ability to apply AI, automation, and emerging technologies to simplify processes, improve efficiency, strengthen controls, and enhance the payroll experience. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience leading payroll and time operations within a large, complex multinational organization. This individual will bring a proven record of scaling services, simplifying fragmented processes, strengthening compliance and controls, improving vendor performance, and establishing a globally consistent operating model while appropriately addressing country-specific requirements.
Global Strategy and Operating Model: Define and execute the global payroll and time strategy, operating model, governance framework, and transformation roadmap. Establish scalable global standards that support business growth, acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and evolving workforce needs.
Global Service Delivery and Operational Excellence: Lead end-to-end global payroll and time operations, ensuring accurate, timely, compliant service delivery. Drive continuous improvement through performance metrics, operational excellence, risk management, and service quality enhancements.
Executive and Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on payroll and time strategy, performance, compliance, and investments. Build strong partnerships across HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, Technology, and business leaders to align solutions with enterprise priorities.
Regulatory Compliance, Tax, and Controls: Provide oversight of global payroll compliance, tax administration, statutory reporting, and internal controls. Ensure regulatory requirements are met, risks are proactively managed, and audit readiness is maintained.
Governance and Enterprise Accountability: Establish governance, performance management, escalation protocols, and accountability frameworks. Monitor operational, financial, compliance, and technology risks while driving transparency and measurable outcomes.
Vendor and Commercial Management: Lead relationships with payroll, time, technology, and managed-service providers. Oversee vendor performance, service delivery, contract management, negotiations, and value realization.
Transformation and Technology Enablement: Sponsor and lead global transformation initiatives, including process standardization, automation, technology implementation, vendor transitions, and operating model enhancements that improve efficiency and scalability.
Organizational and Talent Leadership: Build and develop a high-performing global team. Foster accountability, leadership capability, succession planning, collaboration, and a culture of continuous improvement and inclusion.
The range for this position is $164,900.00 to $356,100.00 USD. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, click here.
We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Accommodation in the Application Process: Acuity Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws requiring reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities in employment. This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation in the application process. If you believe you need reasonable accommodation to assist with our online application system or any aspect of the application process, please contact Human Resources at (770) 922-9000, and select option 4. Please be prepared to identify the requisition / position applied for and the aspect of the application process for which you believe accommodation is needed. The company will engage in an interactive process with you to better understand the request and to determine whether reasonable accommodation is needed and available.
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