Global Time & Attendance Product Strategy Lead

📋 Description

• Ensure that Time & Attendance systems and processes are designed and implemented across all countries in accordance with statutory requirements, minimizing compliance risks and facilitating robust audit outcomes.

• Integrate compliance considerations into every phase of T&A project delivery, ensuring that all initiatives take into account country-specific labor laws, working time regulations, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), and payroll compliance requirements from initial design to go-live.

• Serve as the primary compliance liaison for T&A-related initiatives, translating legislative requirements into effective system controls, coordinating responses to audits, and developing governance frameworks that ensure regulatory adherence while allowing for scalable delivery.

• Collaborate with T&A, Payroll Operations, Product, and Implementation teams to embed country-specific labor law requirements (working time regulations, overtime rules, rest periods, CBAs, statutory accruals) into system design and configuration.

• Ensure compliance reviews are integrated into project lifecycles, encompassing requirements gathering, configuration validation, testing, and go-live readiness.

• Champion the importance of embedding compliance from the beginning rather than addressing it post-implementation.

• Work alongside country compliance and legal experts to interpret statutory obligations (maximum working hours, mandatory breaks, overtime calculations, accrual logic, record retention, etc.).

• Convert legislative requirements into precise system configuration rules, technical specifications, and operational controls.

• Simplify complex legal terminology into actionable requirements that Product and Operations teams can consistently implement.

• Act as the primary compliance contact for all T&A-related initiatives, ensuring alignment between Compliance, Product, Payroll Operations, and Implementation teams.

• Establish governance checkpoints and review mechanisms that confirm regulatory alignment without hindering delivery.

• Define global standards while accommodating specific legal requirements of each country.

• Proactively identify compliance gaps or control weaknesses before they result in operational or regulatory exposure.

• Evaluate potential impacts in collaboration with subject matter experts.

• Recommend pragmatic corrective actions, prioritize remediation efforts, and escalate significant risks when necessary.

• Coordinate both internal and external audit requests concerning Time & Attendance systems and processes.

• Collaborate with country compliance experts and operational stakeholders to compile comprehensive, accurate, and defensible documentation.

• Ensure that audit evidence and control documentation are submitted in a timely manner.

• Monitor remediation actions stemming from audit findings until they are resolved.

• Develop and maintain T&A compliance documentation, including control narratives, process maps, risk registers, and change logs.

• Establish documentation standards that guarantee processes are transparent, traceable, and ready for audits across all operating countries.

• Ensure compliance impact assessments are integrated into system and process change management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience with global payroll Time & Attendance systems (e.g., Workday Time Tracking, UKG, ADP, Ceridian Dayforce) across various jurisdictions.

• Strong understanding of T&A compliance requirements, including working time directives, overtime calculations, rest period enforcement, accrual methodologies, and statutory record-keeping obligations.

• Knowledge of the influence of collective bargaining agreements on T&A configuration and operational processing.

• Ability to translate functional requirements into scalable system controls.

• Capability to interpret labor legislation and convert statutory requirements into operational controls and system functionalities.

• Experience in coordinating audit responses and preparing compliance documentation for regulatory or internal reviews.

• Proven track record of identifying and mitigating compliance risks in multi-country environments.

• Comfort in operating within regulated environments where accuracy and defensible documentation are critical.

• Strong project management skills, with experience in embedding compliance into agile or hybrid delivery frameworks.

• Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Operations, Implementation, Legal, Compliance) without direct authority.

• Experience in establishing governance structures that balance risk management with business enablement.

• Capable of working effectively in complex, matrixed global organizations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex regulatory requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in creating structured documentation that withstands audit and regulatory scrutiny.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with country-based compliance experts and global stakeholders across time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously).

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Mental health support services.

• Stock options.

• Learning budget.

• Home office budget & IT equipment.

• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.