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About the Role

Boeing delivers one of the largest and most complex payrolls in the world. We are on a focused journey of system modernization and operational effectiveness to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant pay for our global workforce. We are seeking a Senior Global Payroll Compliance Lead to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain payroll governance, policy, and audit readiness.
• Design and embed preventative and detective controls aligned with legislation, collective bargaining agreements, and Boeing internal standards.
• Act as a subject matter expert on wage and hour laws, statutory entitlements, tax requirements, and other pay-related regulations.
• Build and document payroll and HR processes that support standardized operations and repeatable compliance.
• Drive complex transformation initiatives to standardize workflows and reduce operational risk.
• Develop and implement consistent policies, operating models, and SOPs across business units and regions.
• Lead change management activities, including impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, training, and adoption strategies.
• Leverage deep technical knowledge of payroll and HR systems to design integrated compliance frameworks.
• Define monitoring and automated controls that operate within and across systems to detect anomalies and measure risk.
• Support system implementations and integrations to improve end-to-end payroll accuracy and control effectiveness.
• Partner with the payroll team, senior executives, HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Labor Relations, and IT to operationalize compliance solutions.
• Translate complex pay and regulatory concepts into clear, actionable guidance and controls.
• Facilitate training and communication for diverse audiences and drive consistent application of policies.
• Lead transformation of pay practices and compliance frameworks across regions to stabilize and improve large HR/payroll functions.
• Own payroll risk management: lead audits, approve high-risk adjustments, oversee reconciliations, and drive remediation.
• Establish KPIs and continuous improvement cycles to measure control effectiveness and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in HR operations and payroll compliance in large, complex, multi-state and international environments.
• Deep knowledge of global payroll legislation, tax rules, wage and hour laws, entitlements, and compliance best practices.
• Hands-on experience with payroll and HR systems: Workday, ServiceNow, UKG, CloudPay, ADP, SAP, or equivalent.
• Track record of designing and implementing controls, monitoring frameworks, and audit programs.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret payroll data, identify trends, and recommend corrective actions.
• Exceptional communication skills — able to convey technical and legal requirements to non-technical stakeholders.
• Change management and leadership experience: mentoring, coaching, and leading cross-functional teams.
• Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Skills

• Workday
• ServiceNow
• UKG
• CloudPay
• ADP
• SAP
• Change management
• Leadership
• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Cross-functional team leadership
• German
• French
• Polish
• Dutch

Location

• Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• London, United Kingdom
• Warsaw, Poland
• Gdansk, Poland
• Berlin, Germany
• Frankfurt (Neu-Isenburg), Germany

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Up to 10% travel

Experience Level

• Senior
• 10+ years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or higher (preferred)
• Certification(s) in payroll, compliance, or related areas (e.g., CPP, FPC) is a plus

About the Company

• Boeing delivers one of the largest and most complex payrolls in the world.
• We are on a focused journey of system modernization and operational effectiveness to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant pay for our global workforce.