Iron Mountain
Senior Director, Global Payroll
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Senior Director, Global Payroll
Senior Director, Global Payroll – Europe (Remote)
About Iron Mountain
At Iron Mountain, we believe work makes a significant impact when executed with purpose—positively affecting our customers, employees, and planet. We’re dedicated to finding motivated people like you to join our team and drive meaningful change together. Whether you’re starting your career or seeking a career shift, we encourage you to explore possibilities with us.
Iron Mountain offers expert, sustainable solutions across records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage and logistics. We partner daily with 225,000+ global customers to preserve critical artifacts, optimise inventory, and safeguard data privacy in innovative, socially responsible ways.
The Opportunity
Title
Senior Director, Global Payroll
Location
Europe (remote)
Job Summary
Iron Mountain is hiring a motivated Senior Director, Global Payroll to join our Global HR team. In this role, you’ll provide strategic leadership and expertise overseeing payroll operations for 30,000 employees across 56 countries, spanning Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and North America.
Reporting directly to the Vice President of HR Service Delivery, you’ll drive transformation through artificial intelligence and automation, optimise global payroll operations, and deliver results in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Global Payroll Transformation
- Lead and influence progress for the next phase of the Global Payroll and Time transformation roadmap.
- Deploy AI agents, robotic process automation (RPA), and middleware API integrations to build an exception-free payroll ecosystem.
- Foster a digitally empowered payroll operating model.
Compliance & Governance
- Formulate and enforce global payroll policies while ensuring:
- Accuracy of financial information and strong compliance with:
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
- Regional data residency laws (e.g., General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Personal Data Protection Act, Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados)
- Digital tax mandates
- Accuracy of payroll processing to the lowest possible audit risk level.
- Accuracy of financial information and strong compliance with:
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Total Rewards Integration
- Collaborate with Global Benefits, Total Rewards, Finance, Treasury, and Legal teams to:
- Design and maintain integrated end-to-end data flows for global benefits, equity, and allowances.
- Oversee merger and acquisition (M&A) payroll integration.
Vendor Ecosystem Management
- Oversee the final phase of a multi-year vendor consolidation initiative, transitioning all remaining countries onto a single outsourcing vendor solution (Strada).
- Performance management to guarantee top-tier service delivery.
Leadership & Team Growth
- Lead, coach, and upskill the global Payroll delivery team by:
- Transitioning traditional operational Payroll team members to focus on:
- Process management
- Data analytics
- Continuous improvement across remote, culturally diverse, and matrixed teams.
- Transitioning traditional operational Payroll team members to focus on:
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have:
- Extensive leadership experience in global payroll with direct accountability for managing payroll operations across:
- 25+ high-growth, multi-national markets
- Profound knowledge of:
- Global payroll regulatory environments and digital compliance mandates
- International tax treatments and worker classification guidelines (e.g., IR35, EU directives)
- Payroll financial accounting and data handling
- Proven success, demonstrated through:
- Spearheading large-scale global payroll transformations, particularly the creation of a Global Payroll Center of Excellence (COE)
- Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Accounting (or equivalent)
- Certification:
- Professional payroll certification required
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Plus, you’ll bring:
- Executive presence to translate complex compliance risks into strategic financial insights for leadership
- A passion for agile innovation aligned with dynamic business needs
Benefits
Iron Mountain offers:
- Competitive compensation and benefits aligned with your experience
- Strategic impact behind ground-breaking global payroll transformation affecting 30,000+ employees worldwide
- High-visibility platform to architect, deploy, and influence next-gen AI and automation-based payroll solutions
- Flex work arrangements to balance work and life
- Continuous learning opportunities and professional growth
Company Overview: Iron Mountain
As a global leader in storage and information management, Iron Mountain serves 225,000+ customers in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of assets, from critical business data to invaluable cultural and archival materials.
Our commitment spans providing cost-efficient, risk- easing, compliance-focused solutions—enabling sustainable and digital transformation, secure storage, data resilience, and expert logistics.
Values & Beliefs
Iron Mountain thrives on a foundation of shared ethics, integrity, and collective action. Explore our Values and Code of Ethics to understand how we uncover boundless potential through collaboration.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Iron Mountain embraces and invests in equality. We recruit without regard for race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or expression.
To assist with accommodations, please email: accommodationrequest@ironmountain.com.
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Note: Impactful work begins here. Join us to redefine global payroll futures through expertise, empathy, and innovation.
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