Job ID: r20811

What You'll Do
The Global Payroll Director is responsible for delivering a high‑quality, compliant, and scalable payroll experience for Criteo employees across over 20 countries. This hands‑on leadership role has end‑to‑end accountability for integral payroll strategy, operations, governance, controls, vendor management, and continuous improvement.

Leadership and team management

Lead the global payroll function and ensure payroll is processed accurately, timely, and in compliance with country regulations, tax requirements, internal policies, and control standards.

Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching, and development to the payroll team, creating clear accountability, strong engagement, and high performance.

Build team capability across global payroll operations, compliance, stakeholder management, systems, and project execution.

Establish clear roles, responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations across the payroll organization.

Promote a collaborative, transparent, and solutions‑oriented team culture aligned with Criteo values.





Ensure the team is appropriately structured and resourced to support current operations and future business needs.

Payroll operations and compliance

Oversee end‑to‑end payroll operations across all countries in scope, including regular payroll, off‑cycle payroll, year‑end activities, statutory reporting, reconciliations, and employee payments where applicable.

Ensure payroll practices comply with local legislation, tax regulations, labor requirements, data privacy obligations, SOX/internal control standards, and company policies.

Maintain a robust internal control framework for payroll, including process documentation, key controls, review mechanisms, and issue remediation.

Monitor operational performance, risks, service levels, and recurring issues, and drive corrective and preventive actions.

Partner with Accounting, Finance, and Treasury to ensure payroll funding, reconciliation, journal entries

📌 Global Payroll Director (Barcelona)
🏢 Criteo Deutschland
📍 Barcelona