Payroll & Implementation Specialist
Themis SolutionsClio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.
We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.
Summary:
We are currently seeking a Payroll & Implementation Specialist to join our Payroll team.
What your team does:
Clio’s Payroll team sits within Total Rewards on the People Team and is responsible for delivering a seamless, reliable, and supportive pay experience for every Clion around the globe. We believe timely, accurate pay and meaningful benefits are more than transactions—they’re foundational to trust, well-being, and engagement. We live the value #customersuccesscomesfirst by treating every Clion as our customer: showing up with ownership, responsiveness, and care across Slack support channels, Freshservice tickets, and our shared inboxes. We make clear commitments, meet our deadlines, and are known for delivering high-quality results on time—every time.
Who you are:
You’re a detail-oriented, audit-minded payroll professional who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments. You bring strong project ownership, a compliance mindset, and experience supporting payroll implementations, vendor changes, major system updates, and operational change. You’re comfortable partnering across teams, managing multiple priorities, and getting hands-on in payroll operations to ensure successful delivery.
As a Payroll & Implementation Specialist, you’ll lead global payroll projects and transformation initiatives, including system implementations, vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, major system updates and upgrades, country launches, and M&A integrations. You’ll help ensure payroll and benefits-related changes are delivered safely, compliantly, and with strong operational adoption.
What you’ll work on:
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.
What you may have:
5+ years of payroll experience, with exposure to global payroll operations, payroll implementations, transformations, or major process and system changes.
Strong knowledge of payroll operations and controls, including reconciliations, approvals, variance analysis, audit-ready documentation, and compliance-focused process design.
Experience supporting vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, or system upgrades that impact payroll inputs, deductions, funding, reporting, or employee experience.
Strong project management and cross-functional partnership skills, with the ability to coordinate across Payroll, HRIS, Benefits, Finance, Legal, and People teams.
Familiarity with payroll platforms and tools such as CloudPay, Remote, Workday integrations, or similar systems.
A high level of attention to detail, ownership, and comfort working independently in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Demonstrated interest in elevating your craft using AI.
Serious bonus points if you have:
Hands-on experience with CloudPay and/or Remote, including implementation, migration, or stabilization work.
Workday HRIS/payroll integration experience, including interfaces, pay element mapping, reporting, and exception handling.
Experience leading or supporting payroll-related vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, or large-scale system upgrades.
Experience with UAT, parallel runs, go-live support, and hypercare for payroll or benefits-related changes.
Experience working across multiple countries, payroll models, or complex global payroll environments.
Payroll certifications or advanced payroll compliance, systems, or project management training.
What you will find here:
Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.
Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:
Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
$2000 annual counseling benefit
RRSP matching and RESP contribution
Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years
*Our salary bands are designed to reflect the range of skills and experience needed for the position and to allow room for growth at Clio. For experienced individuals, we typically hire at or around the midpoint of the band. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Those who are new to the role may join below the midpoint and develop their skills over time. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.
Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility
Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers
We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.
Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.