Head of Global Payroll

Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 1000+ customers in 58+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.

Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.

At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Role Overview

Harvey is entering an exciting phase of global growth. Following our recent Workday implementation and global expansion to several new countries, with more to come, we are seeking a Head of Global Payroll to build, lead, and mature our global payroll function. This leader will own end-to-end payroll operations across all jurisdictions, ensure compliance and control at scale, and deliver a world-class employee experience as we expand internationally. The ideal candidate is a hands-on, systems-savvy payroll executive who has built global payroll operations in dynamic, fast-scaling environments and who can seamlessly balance strategy and execution.

What You'll Do

• Implement key controls in Workday Payroll to ensure complete accuracy of payroll information

• Define and execute the comprehensive global payroll strategy for rapid growth and new countries such as in the Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, UK and more

• Build a scalable operating model (in-house plus local partners) and expansion playbook

• Hire and lead a high-performing team with a culture of accountability and continuous improvement

• Own end-to-end multi-country payroll: processing, funding, statutory remittances, reporting, and year-end (e.g., W-2, T4, P60, TDS/Forms 16, PAYG)

• Ensure accurate, timely, compliant pay for all populations and pay types, including equity and variable compensation

• Reduce cycle time while ensuring quality through root-cause analysis and automation, with strong data quality and employee focus

• Own payroll in Workday. Partner with HRIS and Finance to optimize HCM, Time & Absence, and Payroll integrations; strengthen links to finance, timekeeping, benefits, equity, and banking

• Lead configuration, testing, change management, and controls to deliver an automated, auditable environment

• Build and maintain a global payroll control framework (standard processes, reconciliations, segregation of duties, approvals)

• Ensure compliance with tax withholding, social contributions, and reporting across jurisdictions

• Partner with Legal, Tax, and Finance on regulatory changes, and benefits/equity/bonus treatment. Lead audits, remediation, and continuous control monitoring

• Launch payroll in new countries: select and manage local providers, establish banking/funding workflows, and implement statutory filings and benefits.

• Partner with People, Compensation, Stock Administration, Accounting, Finance, Legal, and IT on aligned data, policies, and processes.

• Support accounting close activities, journals, and reconciliations.

• Elevate employee experience with clear communications, self-service resources, and reliable service levels.

What You Have

Required

• 12+ years of progressive payroll leadership experience, including ownership of multi-country payroll operations in high-growth tech or similarly dynamic environments.

• Demonstrated expertise implementing and operating payroll within Workday, including HCM and Time & Absence integrations.

• Deep knowledge of US payroll practices and some of the following jurisdictions: Australia, UK, Ireland, India, Canada.

• Proven track record building and leading global payroll teams and standing up new country payrolls and entities.

• Strong command of payroll compliance, statutory reporting, and controls, including SOX or similar internal control frameworks.

• Experience with equity compensation, variable pay, and pension (401K, etc) compliance and operations considerations.

• Exceptional process design, project management, and change management skills with a bias for automation and continuous improvement.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across Finance, HR, Legal, and IT.

Preferred

• Professional payroll and/or equity certifications (e.g., CPP, CIPP, CIPP/E, Global Payroll Management certifications).

• Experience with global payroll aggregator models and local in-country providers; comfort negotiating and managing vendor SLAs.

Compensation Range

$195,000-$280,000 USD

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