Senior Global Payroll Specialist

As the Senior Global Payroll Specialist, you will play a critical role in supporting PartnerRe's global payroll operations across multiple countries, primarily in North America, Europe, and APAC. Combining hands-on payroll execution with operational leadership, you will act as a payroll subject matter expert, mentor, and project lead while remaining actively involved in day-to-day payroll delivery. You will also be a key contributor to payroll transformation and technology modernization initiatives. What You'll Do - Process end-to-end payroll activities across multiple countries, including regular, off-cycle, bonus, and year-end payrolls - Review, validate, reconcile, and balance payroll data, earnings, deductions, taxes, and benefits, completing audits and quality reviews - Investigate and resolve complex payroll issues and employee inquiries while partnering with vendors and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery - Prepare payroll reports and maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation - Support compliance with payroll legislation, statutory requirements, year-end reporting, filings, audits, and payroll controls - Monitor legislative changes and assess their payroll impacts - Administer payroll-related benefit deductions and contributions, and support leave, disability, retirement, and wellness programs - Partner with HR and vendors to resolve benefit-related issues - Provide day-to-day guidance, knowledge sharing, onboarding, training, and mentoring across the payroll team - Act as a payroll subject matter expert and escalation point, coordinating team and stakeholder activities and leading project workstreams without formal people management authority - Serve as a key subject matter expert on payroll transformation and technology modernization initiatives - Contribute to requirements gathering, process design, solution validation, testing, user acceptance testing, parallel payroll validation, and defect resolution - Identify automation and process improvement opportunities, and support related change management, training, and transition activities What You Bring - 7+ years of progressive payroll experience - Strong payroll compliance and statutory knowledge - Global payroll exposure, particularly in the United States and Canada - Experience leading projects or acting as a senior payroll resource - Demonstrated ability to influence and lead work without formal authority - Strong analytical, problem-solving, reconciliation, and issue-resolution skills - Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across HR, vendors, and payroll teams - Ability to manage sensitive employee and payroll information with discretion and confidentiality Great-to-Haves - A recognized payroll designation - Experience supporting payroll transformation, technology modernization, automation, testing, or user acceptance testing - Experience with payroll-related benefits administration and vendor coordination Compensation and Benefits The expected base salary range for this position, when hired into our Toronto location, is CAD per year. For positions based in other jurisdictions, compensation will be determined in alignment with local regulations, market benchmarks, and internal compensation frameworks. The above range reflects the typical base salary range for candidates hired into this position. The actual salary will vary depending on a number of factors, including job location, experience, qualifications, education/training, skills, market conditions, and alignment with the role's requirements. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may participate in our annual incentive program, payment under which is at the discretion of PartnerRe and subject to individual and company performance. Eligible employees also have the opportunity to participate in an array of benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, a health spending account, a defined contribution pension plan, life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, etc. Working Arrangement PartnerRe operates with a hybrid work approach that balances in-office collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Our employees are required to be in the office 3 days a week. Our goal is to create an environment where employees can connect, innovate, and perform at their best. This position is for an existing vacancy within our organization.