Strada Pay CoE Team Lead (SPIs)
Strada · Hyderabad · onsite · Posted 67d ago
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About this role
Join us on a journey of endless possibilities
At Strada, possibility isn't just a promise – it's the foundation of everything we do. We believe in unlocking potential for every colleague, creating a journey of growth, discovery, and impact.
With the support, resources, and opportunities we provide, you'll build a fulfilling future – working on meaningful projects that span industries and regions, contributing to outcomes that matter.
Strada is a people, payroll, and technology leader simplifying international workforce management. Operating in 180+ countries, we design and deliver people-first solutions powered by cloud-based technology – helping organizations grow and enabling workforces to perform at their best.
Learn more at www.stradaglobal.com
To learn more about us, visit stradaglobal.com
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced and strategic Team Leader – COE (Global Payroll Reporting & Configuration) to lead a high‑performing team responsible for delivering the core configuration, calculation logic, and reporting frameworks that power Strada Pay.
In this leadership role, you will guide a team of COE Specialists who design, build, and maintain complex payroll reports, calculation rules, and client/country‑specific configurations across our global payroll platform. You will ensure global consistency, technical excellence, compliance, and innovation — while embodying and reinforcing our values: Anticipate, Own, Challenge, Empower, Care.
Your leadership will strengthen the quality and scalability of our platform, streamline operational processes, and elevate Strada Pay's value for clients worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
Anticipate
You foresee upcoming regulatory, technical, or client needs and proactively position the team to deliver scalable, future‑ready solutions.
Own
You take full responsibility for the team's output and the accuracy, quality, and stability of the configurations and reports they deliver.
Challenge
You constructively challenge assumptions, legacy processes, and inefficient designs — encouraging innovation and smarter solutions.
Empower
You coach and develop your team, ensure knowledge flows across functions, and remove blockers so people can do their best work.
Care
You create an environment of trust, respect, and psychological safety — and ensure that every employee whose pay depends on Strada Pay receives a flawless, compliant outcome.
Required
Qualifications & Experience
At Strada, we support your whole self—offering a range of benefits for your health, wellbeing, finances, and future. These include health coverage, wellbeing programs, paid leave (vacation, sick, parental), retirement plans, learning opportunities, and more.
All offers are contingent on successful completion of background checks, where permitted by law and as appropriate for the role. These may include identity, education, employment, and in some cases, criminal history verification, checks against global watchlists, credit reports, and/or drug testing. You'll be informed of the specific checks applicable to your role and location during the recruitment process.
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Strada is dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that embracing differences strengthens our teams and drives innovation and success.
Diversity Policy Statement
Strada is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination based on legally protected characteristics. We actively support the advancement of underrepresented groups and provide reasonable accommodations for disabilities and religious practices. Applicants may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting their recruiter.
Authorization to work in the Employing Country
To be considered, you must have current and future work authorization in the country where you're applying, without the need for visa sponsorship by Strada.
Please note: This job description does not limit Strada's right to assign or reassign responsibilities, including to subsidiaries, partners, or future business purchasers.
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
Disclaimer
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Strada business units.
At Strada, possibility isn't just a promise – it's the foundation of everything we do. We believe in unlocking potential for every colleague, creating a journey of growth, discovery, and impact.
With the support, resources, and opportunities we provide, you'll build a fulfilling future – working on meaningful projects that span industries and regions, contributing to outcomes that matter.
Strada is a people, payroll, and technology leader simplifying international workforce management. Operating in 180+ countries, we design and deliver people-first solutions powered by cloud-based technology – helping organizations grow and enabling workforces to perform at their best.
Learn more at www.stradaglobal.com
To learn more about us, visit stradaglobal.com
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced and strategic Team Leader – COE (Global Payroll Reporting & Configuration) to lead a high‑performing team responsible for delivering the core configuration, calculation logic, and reporting frameworks that power Strada Pay.
In this leadership role, you will guide a team of COE Specialists who design, build, and maintain complex payroll reports, calculation rules, and client/country‑specific configurations across our global payroll platform. You will ensure global consistency, technical excellence, compliance, and innovation — while embodying and reinforcing our values: Anticipate, Own, Challenge, Empower, Care.
Your leadership will strengthen the quality and scalability of our platform, streamline operational processes, and elevate Strada Pay's value for clients worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Strategy
- Provide strategic direction, coaching, and day‑to‑day leadership to a multi‑country team of COE specialists.
- Set clear performance expectations, ensuring accountability for quality, accuracy, efficiency, and delivery timelines.
- Build a culture of innovation, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Plan capacity, prioritize work, and allocate resources across competing client and platform demands.
- Drive cross‑team alignment through structured governance, knowledge sharing, and global standards.
- Operational & Technical Excellence
- Ensure high‑quality delivery of all calculation rules, country/client configurations, and reporting frameworks owned by the COE.
- Oversee team execution of product releases, configuration updates, and regulatory changes across markets.
- Maintain consistency of global payroll design while allowing for local statutory variations.
- Ensure rigorous documentation, version control, configuration libraries, and reusable assets.
- Identify process inefficiencies and drive improvements that reduce defects, rework, and manual intervention.
- Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
- Act as the primary liaison among COE, Product, Engineering, Implementation, Operations, and Country Champions.
- Influence product roadmaps by translating frontline technical insights into scalable platform enhancements.
- Provide leadership oversight during client implementations, expansions, and complex solution requests.
- Partner with Compliance & Country SMEs to ensure alignment with statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Support Sales and Pre‑Sales teams by validating solution feasibility and contributing technical expertise.
- Compliance, Quality & Risk Management
- Guide the team in monitoring global payroll regulatory changes and assessing configuration impacts.
- Ensure timely updates to Strada Pay's calculation engines, country logic, and statutory reporting.
- Lead quality governance, including defect reviews, impact assessments, and root‑cause analysis.
- Establish strong internal controls and enforce consistent QA processes across the team.
- Platform Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Foster a mindset of challenging the status quo — improving rule design, reporting logic, automation, and platform scalability.
- Champion the development of standard templates, reusable configuration assets, and global frameworks.
- Promote the adoption of AI‑driven tools, validation engines, and diagnostics embedded in Strada Pay.
- Drive initiatives that improve client experience, reporting accuracy, data visibility, and operational efficiency.
Anticipate
You foresee upcoming regulatory, technical, or client needs and proactively position the team to deliver scalable, future‑ready solutions.
Own
You take full responsibility for the team's output and the accuracy, quality, and stability of the configurations and reports they deliver.
Challenge
You constructively challenge assumptions, legacy processes, and inefficient designs — encouraging innovation and smarter solutions.
Empower
You coach and develop your team, ensure knowledge flows across functions, and remove blockers so people can do their best work.
Care
You create an environment of trust, respect, and psychological safety — and ensure that every employee whose pay depends on Strada Pay receives a flawless, compliant outcome.
Required
Qualifications & Experience
- 7+ years of experience in global payroll, payroll configuration, HR technology, or similar domain.
- 2–3+ years of team leadership or people‑management experience in a technical or operational function.
- Strong expertise in payroll calculation logic, statutory rules, and cross‑country variability.
- Demonstrated experience with complex reporting frameworks and data models.
- Proven ability to lead teams in fast‑paced, matrixed, multi‑country environments.
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and conflict‑resolution abilities.
- Experience with Strada Pay, Workday, SAP, Oracle, or enterprise payroll/HCM platforms.
- Multi‑country payroll expertise and familiarity with global compliance landscapes.
- Experience with SAFe/Agile environments, product‑driven organizations, or configuration COEs.
- Background in automation, testing frameworks, data analytics, or integration workflows.
- Team delivery quality, accuracy, and compliance.
- Reduction in defects, rework, and escalations.
- Efficiency of global templates, rules, and reusable components.
- Positive feedback from Product, Engineering, Implementation, and Country SMEs.
- Team engagement, development, and retention.
- Contribution to platform improvements and innovation velocity.
- Anticipate Customer Needs – We stay ahead of trends so our customers can grow and succeed.
- Own the Outcome – We take responsibility for delivering excellence and ensuring things get done right.
- Challenge Ourselves to Work Smarter – We move faster than the world around us to drive change and accomplish more.
- Empower Each Other to Solve Problems – We tackle challenges head on, ask tough questions, and collaborate to find the best solutions.
- Care About Our Work and Our People – We understand that what we do impacts millions, and we have a responsibility to get it right.
At Strada, we support your whole self—offering a range of benefits for your health, wellbeing, finances, and future. These include health coverage, wellbeing programs, paid leave (vacation, sick, parental), retirement plans, learning opportunities, and more.
All offers are contingent on successful completion of background checks, where permitted by law and as appropriate for the role. These may include identity, education, employment, and in some cases, criminal history verification, checks against global watchlists, credit reports, and/or drug testing. You'll be informed of the specific checks applicable to your role and location during the recruitment process.
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Strada is dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that embracing differences strengthens our teams and drives innovation and success.
Diversity Policy Statement
Strada is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination based on legally protected characteristics. We actively support the advancement of underrepresented groups and provide reasonable accommodations for disabilities and religious practices. Applicants may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting their recruiter.
Authorization to work in the Employing Country
To be considered, you must have current and future work authorization in the country where you're applying, without the need for visa sponsorship by Strada.
Please note: This job description does not limit Strada's right to assign or reassign responsibilities, including to subsidiaries, partners, or future business purchasers.
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
Disclaimer
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Strada business units.
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SAPcomplex reporting frameworksenterprise payroll HCM platformspayroll calculation logicStrada Payhr technologyGlobal PayrollWorkdaydata modelsOracle DBData Analyticsintegration workflowsautomation testing frameworkspayroll configurationStatutory Rules
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At NGA Human Resources, we provide you with the advantage of a truly global business environment and the opportunities of a fast-paced, agile and growing organization
Working at NGA HR will give you the opportunity to be part of a truly global team working with colleagues in more than 50 cities across the world.
We also have a wide network of employees which form NGA HR's Global Service Delivery Network (GSDN) €“ working hard to put the client at the center of everything they do. The GSDN consists of Global, Regional and Local delivery centers around the world €“ they are at the heart of our HR & Payroll Outsourcing business.
Many of our teams have global responsibilities and we encourage everyone to connect and work together to best support our business.
NGA Human Resources makes HR and payroll processes work well for businesses. We currently support large enterprise businesses in nearly 200 countries. Most of our clients have employee operations in multiple countries, making the rewarding and management of the workforce highly complex.
To remove this complexity, and the risk of non-compliance and data security, we provide the technology and services that make these multinationals need to ensure employees are paid on time, accurately, with the correct additions and deductions, and adhering to the legal and tax regulations of the local country.
Globally, each payroll run, we process the pay cheques of hundreds of thousands of people working in all major sectors including banking, retail, manufacturing, transport, hospitality. In parallel, we design, build and manage on Premise and digital HR systems..
Increasingly, we€™re being asked to support businesses setting up or expanding into the growth economies of LatAm, Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific. We are also playing a fundamental role in the digital transformation of workforce processes for organizations as they ready themselves for success in the digital economy.
To ensure efficient, productive workforces, we support legacy on Premise human capital management systems (HCM) and deliver the latest cloud-based HR-as-a-Service solutions to these organizations.
These solutions introduce standardized, highly visible and auditable global HR processes that integrate easily with other back office systems. The data produced in these can be aggregated, analyzed and the intelligence used to make smart business decisions.
In summary, at NGA Human Resources, we take the complexity, risk and hassle of managing HR and payroll processes and data away from businesses, so they can focus on strategic business delivery.
Working at NGA HR will give you the opportunity to be part of a truly global team working with colleagues in more than 50 cities across the world.
We also have a wide network of employees which form NGA HR's Global Service Delivery Network (GSDN) €“ working hard to put the client at the center of everything they do. The GSDN consists of Global, Regional and Local delivery centers around the world €“ they are at the heart of our HR & Payroll Outsourcing business.
Many of our teams have global responsibilities and we encourage everyone to connect and work together to best support our business.
NGA Human Resources makes HR and payroll processes work well for businesses. We currently support large enterprise businesses in nearly 200 countries. Most of our clients have employee operations in multiple countries, making the rewarding and management of the workforce highly complex.
To remove this complexity, and the risk of non-compliance and data security, we provide the technology and services that make these multinationals need to ensure employees are paid on time, accurately, with the correct additions and deductions, and adhering to the legal and tax regulations of the local country.
Globally, each payroll run, we process the pay cheques of hundreds of thousands of people working in all major sectors including banking, retail, manufacturing, transport, hospitality. In parallel, we design, build and manage on Premise and digital HR systems..
Increasingly, we€™re being asked to support businesses setting up or expanding into the growth economies of LatAm, Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific. We are also playing a fundamental role in the digital transformation of workforce processes for organizations as they ready themselves for success in the digital economy.
To ensure efficient, productive workforces, we support legacy on Premise human capital management systems (HCM) and deliver the latest cloud-based HR-as-a-Service solutions to these organizations.
These solutions introduce standardized, highly visible and auditable global HR processes that integrate easily with other back office systems. The data produced in these can be aggregated, analyzed and the intelligence used to make smart business decisions.
In summary, at NGA Human Resources, we take the complexity, risk and hassle of managing HR and payroll processes and data away from businesses, so they can focus on strategic business delivery.
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