Stephanie Giron

Senior Director Payroll Strategy JLL

Stephanie Giron is a Sr Director Global Payroll Strategy at JLL and is responsible for leading the improvement and stabilization efforts of the US and Latin America payroll environments, while driving the alignment of Canada payroll. In addition, she is developing a global payroll strategy to include technology, vendor and support model proposal for JLL worldwide consideration. Prior to joining JLL, Stephanie worked for The Nielsen Company. There she focused on managing the global workforce administration and payroll operations, implementing appropriate internal payroll controls as well as coordinating vendor management governance. During her time at Nielsen she had the opportunity to establish a Global Payroll community among the 95 countries where Nielsen has a payroll function and created a Global Operational Risk Control and Governance framework that includes an assessment of vendor’s controls, identifies gaps and based on findings, proposed remediation. Prior to joining Nielsen, Stephanie worked for HSBC as a Senior Vice President of HR Operations, where she was responsible for the HR Operations function in the US and Canada. Stephanie attended DePaul University in Chicago, IL where she received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Mathematics. She also attended Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, where she earned her MBA. Stephanie and her husband, Rene, live in Geneva, Illinois with their four dachshunds.

9:00 AM Panel Discussion: Adopting A Global Payroll Transformation Approach: Maximizing Global Impact, Minimizing Local Disruption

Payroll is traditionally a local process; local regulations, local language, local pay-slip formats, local banks. The list goes on. However, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t some serious gains to be made by looking at payroll from a global perspective. Not only does standardization enhance productivity and improve reporting, but the increased visibility from a global overview allows payroll heads to provide critical insight back to their business. This session talks about how you can meld global and local approaches to achieve the best outcome:

• Process standardization vs. local variation

• Global insights vs. local reporting needs

• Global costs vs. local costs

• How digital technology can help you manage global payroll