VP, People Operations Manager - Global Payroll & HRIS

As VP, People Operations Manager - Global Payroll & HRIS at Galaxy Digital, you will lead a hands-on, execution-focused role supporting the company's global workforce. You will play a critical role in two key areas: global payroll operations and the implementation of Workday, with a targeted go-live date of January 1, 2027. In your first three to six months, success means delivering a clean and well-controlled Workday go-live, ensuring payroll readiness and data integrity, and establishing scalable processes for steady-state People Operations.

What you'll do

• Serve as a key People Operations partner for Galaxy's Workday implementation ahead of the January 1, 2027 go-live, partnering with internal stakeholders and external implementation resources on requirements gathering, business process design, system configuration, integrations, and implementation activities.
• Coordinate and execute data preparation, cleansing, validation, and migration activities to ensure accurate employee and payroll data within Workday.
• Develop and execute user acceptance testing (UAT), document results, identify issues, and work with appropriate stakeholders through resolution.
• Support payroll parallel testing and other payroll-readiness activities ahead of go-live.
• Help establish scalable HRIS processes, controls, documentation, and governance, including process documentation, SOPs, training materials, and resources for People team members, managers, and employees.
• Support change management, training, and communications associated with the Workday launch.
• Following go-live, manage ongoing Workday administration, including business processes, employee data, reporting, security/access, system updates, and issue resolution.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve, automate, and scale People processes through Workday and other technologies.
• Support the end-to-end administration of payroll across Galaxy's global employee population, partnering with internal teams and third-party payroll providers as appropriate.
• Review payroll inputs and outputs to ensure employees are paid accurately, completely, and on time.
• Perform payroll audits, reconciliations, and variance analyses, proactively investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Coordinate employee lifecycle changes impacting payroll, including new hires, terminations, compensation changes, bonuses, benefits deductions, leaves, and other employee changes.
• Partner with Finance on payroll funding, reconciliations, reporting, and related accounting requirements.
• Work with People team partners to ensure HRIS, payroll, benefits, and employee data remain aligned across systems and vendors.
• Support payroll compliance requirements across applicable jurisdictions, partnering with internal and external subject-matter experts as needed.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with payroll vendors, escalating and resolving issues while holding partners accountable for service and accuracy.
• Maintain payroll calendars, controls, documentation, and standard operating procedures.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and strengthen global payroll processes as Galaxy continues to grow.
• Maintain a high standard of employee data accuracy and integrity across People systems.
• Produce and analyze People and payroll data to identify trends, discrepancies, and opportunities for operational improvement.
• Support employee inquiries related to payroll, HR systems, and People processes, providing a high level of service and discretion.
• Partner cross-functionally across People, Finance, Legal, Technology, and other teams on projects affecting employee data and operations.
• Support audits, compliance requests, reporting, and other People Operations initiatives as needed.
• Support global payroll operations across multiple jurisdictions (including US, UK, Ireland, Portugal, and EOR-supported countries), managing timesheet approvals, payroll data prep, and coordination with in-country payroll vendors.
• Assist with new hire onboarding, employee data changes, transfers, and offboarding processes within Workday and related HR systems.
• Prepare reports, reconciliations, and ad hoc analyses to support payroll and people operations initiatives.
• Help document processes and maintain SOPs for HRIS, payroll, and people operations workflows.
• Respond to employee and manager inquiries related to payroll, HR data, and system access with a high level of accuracy and discretion.

What you bring

• 6+ years of relevant experience in People Operations, payroll, HRIS, HR technology, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience supporting payroll operations, with global or multi-country payroll experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working with Workday or another enterprise HRIS, with direct Workday implementation experience strongly preferred.
• Experience participating in an HRIS implementation, migration, configuration, or significant system transformation is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of the connection between HRIS data, payroll, benefits, Finance, and employee lifecycle processes.
• Demonstrated ability to reconcile complex datasets, identify discrepancies, and drive issues through resolution.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large datasets, reporting, and analysis.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to keep deliverables moving across multiple stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where processes may still be evolving.
• Takes ownership, works effectively both independently and collaboratively, and knows when to escalate issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical or operational issues for different audiences.
• Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive employee and compensation information.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with a Workday HCM and/or Payroll implementation, particularly involving a January 1 or year-start cutover.
• Experience supporting payroll across North America, EMEA, and/or APAC.
• Experience working with multiple local payroll providers or a global payroll platform.
• Familiarity with payroll integrations, data feeds, benefits integrations, and Finance/GL processes.
• Experience developing UAT scripts, executing parallel payroll testing, or supporting system cutovers.
• Experience building or improving payroll controls, SOPs, and audit processes.
• Experience in a high-growth, global financial services or technology organization.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary of $130,000-$150,000 USD and discretionary bonus, commensurate with candidate experience, expertise and local market
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
• Flexible paid time off
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
• Generous paid parental leave
• Competitive family planning benefits for US employees
• Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry
• Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts/lunches
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace

About Galaxy

Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. The company delivers on-chain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, while developing and operating data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Anchored by its Helios campus in Texas, Galaxy is building a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity, positioning it among the largest and fastest-growing data center developers in North America. Headquartered in New York City, Galaxy has offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.