Senior Payroll Specialist - North America

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

As a Senior Payroll Specialist, you will process weekly and biweekly payroll for exempt and nonexempt employees in an outsourced payroll model, with primary focus on Canadian payroll. The team supports approximately 12,000 employees across North America, including the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada.

In addition to payroll responsibilities, you will support the AI Transformation Program for HR and the Office of General Counsel (OGC). In this capacity, you will contribute to modernization efforts by assisting with AI and automation projects, supporting project coordination, and helping improve adoption of new tools and processes.

You will report to our Team Lead North America Payroll.

Your Responsibilities:

• Execute the end-to-end payroll process for US, Puerto Rico, and Canada; ensuring payroll is delivered accurately, on time, and in compliance with applicable requirements.
• Collect, validate, consolidate, and submit payroll inputs to the external payroll vendor, ensuring data is complete, accurate, and supported.
• Reconcile vendor payroll outputs; identify discrepancies, resolve issues, and confirm readiness for final payroll approval.
• Be an escalation point for complex payroll questions from employees, managers, HR, Finance, and other internal stakeholders.
• Prepare, review, verify payroll documentation, declarations, reconciliations, statutory reports, and internal reporting requirements.
• Maintain payroll controls, process documentation, and audit evidence to support internal controls, compliance reviews, and audits.
• Monitor payroll deadlines, labor law requirements, tax and social security obligations, and statutory changes that may affect payroll operations.
• Maintain data integrity across payroll, HR, time, and finance systems.
• Identify and support process improvements to make improvements within payroll processing.
• Analyze payroll issues, causes, and trends; recommend improvements to reduce errors, strengthen controls, and improve the employee experience.
• Support payroll-related projects, system changes, testing, process transitions, standardization, and automation projects.
• Provide guidance and knowledge sharing to less experienced colleagues while modeling quality, accountability, and collaboration.
• Support the Team Lead and Manager with operational coordination, issue resolution, workload prioritization, and regional process governance.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in a multinational, shared service, or outsourced payroll environment.
• Knowledge of Canadian payroll processes, statutory compliance, payroll controls, reconciliations, and audit support.
• Experience working with external payroll vendors and managing payroll outputs, escalations, and service quality.
• Canadian Payroll Association PCP certification or American Payroll Association FPC, CPP.
• Experience with Workday Payroll and Time.
• Advanced English required; additional language skills preferred based on country or regional scope.
• Comfortable supporting process improvements, projects, and automation projects.
• Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools and automation technologies to improve payroll processes.
• Independently navigate a global matrix organization and strengthens collaboration across HR, Finance, Payroll Tax, Legal, vendors, and regional teams.
• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies.

What We Offer:

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans. 

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.