Alex Alvarado

Global Payroll Compliance Manager @Snap Inc.

Houston, TX, US

Partner directly with Human Resources and business teams to analyze and document problems, recommend solutions, initiate corrective actions for the Global Payroll team.• Identify, recommend and prioritize improvements to the customer experience, as well as internal process improvements and work with appropriate internal & external partners to implement.• Document payroll processes and procedures with the ability to suggest best practices and opportunities for improvements.• Represent the Global Payroll team as subject matter expert during cross-functional projects, M&A activity support, and coordination of requirements gathering, solution development and the implementation of the final product/service.• Demonstrate expertise in payroll business processes and understand assigned and cross functional areas.• Identify opportunities for increasing business efficiency through improved manual and automated processes.• Coordinate third party payroll system implementations and upgrades – verify and evaluate changes.• Coordinate the development of comprehensive business cases with cost, service, and benefit dimensions for proposed projects. • Consult on the integration of systems into the Workday environment and recommend specific change management opportunities related to payroll processes.• Serve as an escalation point for issues related to tax and compliance.• Lead the Global Payroll team in the review and compliance of pay and tax records for international employees.• Oversee and lead the self-assessment testing of payroll SOX controls.• Ensure tax and compliance processing of new hires, temporary workers, transfers, promotions and terminations, expats, and mobile employees are compliant and timely.• Provide support for the International statutory audits and periodic internal audits.

The University of Texas at El Paso

Bachelor's Degree, Business - Accounting

The University of Texas at El Paso

Master's Degree, Accounting