BNY Mellon | Vice President, Payroll

Responsibilities

• We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Payroll to join our Payroll – Time and Attendance.
• This role is located in Pune.In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:Position Summary: The Vice President, Global Time and Attendance, will lead the strategy, governance, and end-to-end delivery of Time, Labor, and Absence services across multiple countries.
• The role requires deep subject matter expertise, strong people and operational leadership, and the ability to influence senior leaders, works councils, vendors, technology partners, payroll teams, and country stakeholders.
• Compliance and risk: Maintain compliance with labor laws, working-time regulations, shop agreements, internal policies, audit requirements, record-retention standards, and payroll control expectations.
• Works council engagement: Partner with Employee Relations, Legal, and local leadership to prepare and support works council consultations, information requirements, approvals, and implementation of policy or system changes.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of timekeeping processes, working-time rules, absence interactions, payroll dependencies, compliance controls, and employee data management.
• Demonstrated leadership of multi-country operations and complex stakeholder groups across different regulatory and cultural environments.
• Proven experience engaging works councils, employee representative bodies, Legal, Employee Relations, and country leadership on policy, process, or technology change.
• Strong vendor-management experience, including performance governance, commercial oversight, escalations, service recovery, and change delivery.
• Experience with enterprise Time and Attendance platforms, payroll integrations, functional design, testing, implementation, and production support; exposure to tools such as SAP Fiori or Oracle is advantageous.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, negotiation, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead global teams, manage competing priorities, and deliver measurable improvements in service, risk, cost, and employee experience.

BNY (The Bank of New York Mellon)

BNY is a global financial services company focused on custody and asset servicing, treasury services, and wealth and investment management. Its history goes back to 1784, when Alexander Hamilton helped found the Bank of New York.

BNY's Indian centres hire finance professionals for fund accounting, fund reporting, reconciliations, corporate finance and controls roles.

• Industry: Custody, asset servicing and wealth & investment management
• Headquarters: New York, USA
• In India: Large operations and technology centres in Pune and Chennai