Global Payroll Transformation Manager

Job title
- Global Payroll Transformation Manager
- Ref #
- 221009
- Location
- Qatar - Doha
- Job family
- Corporate & Commercial
- Closing date: 29-Jun-2025

**About the role**
You will be responsible to drive the transformation of the organization’s global payroll processes and systems to streamline and standardize payroll operations across all outstations, through implementing a global payroll solution across circa 85 countries, ensuring automation, system integration with service providers, and compliance with local regulations.

Key responsibilities
- Project manage and coordinate global payroll system implementations across Outstations to ensure no risk to accuracy or timeliness of the payrolls in outstations during the cutover.
- Develop and execute a global payroll transformation strategy aligned with organization’s goals and objectives to drive efficiency and cost savings. Lead transformation of global payroll processes and system to drive efficiency, standardization, and automation across multiple countries.
- Collaborate with Outstation colleagues, HR, HO Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to ensure the success of these global payroll transformation initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with local payroll regulations and statutory requirements in all countries of operation through working with the GBS outstation team.
- Establish and implement standardized workflows for operational efficiency and to ensure performance consistency.
- Develop and implement global payroll policies, procedures, and guidelines, ensuring consistency and compliance.
- Identify opportunity for process automation and system enhancements to reduce manual interventions by GBS outstation staff.
- Establish payroll performance dashboard to monitor accuracy, timeliness and compliance.
- Manage suppliers to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing and reporting. Manage ongoing relationships with payroll vendors, to ensure service level agreements are met and escalations are addressed promptly to ensure agreed service levels.
- Stay updated with global payroll trends, regulations, and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement and innovation in payroll processes within Qatar Airways.

**Be part of an extraordinary story**
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community. Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. Together, everything is possible

**Qualifications**:
**About you**
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 6 years of job-related
- Proven experience as a Global Payroll Transformation Manager or in a similar role, leading global payroll transformation initiatives.
- In-depth knowledge of global payroll processes, systems, regulations, and compliance requirements.
- Strong project management skills with experience managing large-scale payroll implementation across multiple countries with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross functional teams and stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to foster teamwork among team members.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.

**Preferred**
- Experience with global payroll systems and software and ERP Interfaces (preferably Oracle).

**About Qatar Airways Group**

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community

**About Qatar Airways Group**

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passi