Description
The Payroll Subject Matter Expert (SME) is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of an assigned payroll portfolio, primarily supporting North America. The role serves as the primary functional expert for payroll processes, systems, controls, and compliance while providing leadership, guidance, and oversight to the third-party payroll vendor analysts.
The Payroll SME partners closely with Human Resources, Finance, Tax, IT, General Mobility, and external vendors to ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll delivery. In addition to operational ownership, the role leads payroll-related projects, supports transformation initiatives, drives continuous improvement, and provides backup support across payroll portfolios as needed.

Responsabilidades

Payroll Operations & Leadership
- Own the end-to-end payroll process for assigned portfolios, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery.
- Lead and coordinate third-party payroll analyst teams, providing functional direction, guidance,



and oversight throughout the payroll cycle while ensuring adherence to service levels, quality standards, controls, and compliance requirements.
- Review payroll results, reconciliations, control reports, and exceptions; identify risks and discrepancies; and direct corrective actions to ensure payroll accuracy and control effectiveness.
- Approve payroll completion and coordinate funding, payment execution, and ad-hoc/off-cycle payments as required, ensuring employees and third parties are paid accurately and on time.
- Partner with HR, IT, Finance, Tax, Global Mobility, payroll vendors, and other stakeholders to resolve payroll issues and implement sustainable solutions.
- Guide third-party payroll analysts in identifying and resolving payroll discrepancies, and coordinate root cause analysis, testing, and corrective actions related to HCM-to-payroll interfaces, integrations, and data integrity.
- Support payroll accounting, reconciliations, tax-related activi

📌 Payroll SME Noth America (Buenos Aires)
🏢 Weatherford
📍 Buenos Aires