Senior Director Payroll - U.S. Business Shared Services

Senior Director Payroll – US Shared Services

Take on a high-impact leadership role supporting payroll operations across our U.S. Shared Services environment. As Senior Director of Payroll, you’ll play a critical role in delivering seamless payroll services, reporting, and analytics across multiple GardaWorld business entities nationwide.

This is more than payroll—it’s an opportunity to directly shape and lead the execution of how we scale, standardize, and strengthen our processes in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Partnering closely with HR and HRIS, you’ll drive and implement improvements that enhance efficiency, data integrity, and security while ensuring our people are supported with accuracy and excellence.

What’s in it for You

• Work Site Location: St. Louis, MO
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, 401(k) with employer matching contributions, paid time off (PTO) policy, paid holidays, disability coverage, and life insurance options.
• Career Growth: Career growth opportunities at GardaWorld
• Travel: Up to 50% to support business needs as they arise

Your Responsibilities

• Supervise the day-to-day activities of the Payroll Organization.
• Responsible for Processing Multi-state Payroll across multiple business entities, totaling 55,000+ employees and growing
• Drives payroll process and procedures change to continually maximize productivity and drive success.
• Ensuring payroll timeliness, accuracy, and service to employees.
• Keep current on payroll and tax changes impacting the organization and advise upper management.
• Partners with HRIS team to develop and validate employee data.
• Become a key stakeholder with future HRIS system implementations
• Ensure all local, state, and federal payroll compliance requirements are met without issue
• Implement safeguards to ensure employee data privacy and protection.
• Assist with managing our relationship with Ceridian, our payroll and HR software provider.
• Uses knowledge of human resource policies and procedures to incorporate best practices into the company's HR processes, methodologies, and output.
• Drives timely use of data analysis to maintain and improve HR operations, processes and reporting.
• Maintains accurate system setup and table maintenance, including configuration and customization changes.
• Partner with HR and business operations to understand and define business problems and issues, analyzing data and presenting insights that drive decisions on HR system usage.
• Understand end-to-end process and underlying data sources to identify data inconsistencies and make recommendations to improve data integrity.
• Continually identify opportunities to innovate and create better system solutions, focusing on driving efficiencies within the HR organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Your Qualifications:

• Authorized to work in the United States
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting finance or HR required
• Minimum Ten (10) years of payroll management experience
• Five (5) years of Ceridian or ADP experience preferred
• JD experience with SuccessFactors/ECP is a plus
• Experience with HRIS System Implementations preferred
• Excel Proficient (VLOOKUPs, IF statements, conditional formatting etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to manage third party vendor relationships to maintain systems and recommend system enhancements.
• Experience working with unions and collective bargaining agreements.
• Solid interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills with focus on customer service.
• CPP would be a plus

Your Skills and Competencies:

• Executive-level payroll leadership across multi-entity, multi-state environments
• Strong command of payroll compliance (federal, state, and local regulations)
• Expertise in payroll systems, HRIS, and data governance
• Strategic and hands-on process improvement and operational execution
• Advanced analytical skills with ability to translate data into business insights

GardaWorld: Make the World a Safer Place

In the United States, GardaWorld Security remains the only guarding security company to be Certified by Great Place to Work. This could be more than a job - 26% of our corporate employees started as frontline workers.

GardaWorld Security is a global champion in sophisticated and tailored security solutions, employing and training highly skilled and dedicated professionals across the globe, offering a wealth of opportunities to individuals looking to gain experience and develop professionally in a growing industry.

It is the policy of GardaWorld Security Services to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, or disability in accordance with applicable federal laws. In addition, GardaWorld Security Services complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to hiring, placement, assignment, promotion, termination, layoffs, recalls, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. It is also the policy of GardaWorld Security Services not to honor requests that employees be assigned on the basis of sex or any other classification protected by law, unless such request is based on a bona fide occupational qualification for that assignment.