Payroll & Implementation Specialist

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. They are currently seeking a Payroll & Implementation Specialist to join their Payroll team, responsible for delivering a seamless and reliable pay experience globally. The role involves leading global payroll projects and transformation initiatives, ensuring compliance and operational adoption of payroll and benefits-related changes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead global payroll projects end-to-end, including implementations, migrations, vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, major system updates/upgrades, country launches, and M&A integrations
• Support discovery, requirements gathering, current- and future-state process mapping, data readiness, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare for payroll and benefits-related changes
• Partner cross-functionally with PSA (HRIS), Total Rewards, Benefits, Finance, Legal, and regional People teams to ensure payroll and benefit changes are implemented safely, compliantly, and with strong operational adoption
• Support payroll processing and key validations to understand current-state workflows, identify risks or control gaps, and improve implementation outcomes
• Help strengthen payroll controls, documentation, audit readiness, and continuous improvement efforts across systems, processes, and vendor-supported workflows