Why Harvey

At Harvey were 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 were 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 700 customers in 58 countries strong product-market fit and world-class investor support were 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 were 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 Youll 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

$195000-$280000 USD

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