• Join the team redefining how the world experiences design • Lead payroll operations across two of Canva’s fastest-growing regions • Influence global payroll strategy and support expansion into new markets • Drive payroll transformation initiatives, including automation, AI, and process innovation • Partner with leaders across Finance, People, Legal, Systems, and Equity to shape the future of payroll at Canva • Build scalable processes and controls that support Canva’s continued hyper-growth • Develop and mentor payroll talent while helping create a world-class global payroll function • Own end-to-end payroll processing across the Americas and EMEA regions, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness • Serve as the go-to resource and subject matter expert for all payroll-related matters, including future payroll or Employer of Record (EOR) expansions • Stay up to date with payroll legislation, tax regulations, employment requirements, and compliance obligations across multiple jurisdictions • Ensure payroll processes remain compliant with local regulations and internal policies • Lead the resolution of complex payroll issues and escalations, delivering an exceptional employee experience • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing payroll team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence • Build strong relationships with stakeholders across Finance, People, Legal, Systems, Equity, and external partners • Act as a trusted advisor on payroll-related matters, providing guidance and recommendations to support business decisions • Partner with regional and global teams to communicate and implement payroll-related changes, policies, and procedures • Support payroll readiness activities for new country launches, entity setups, acquisitions, and workforce expansions across the Americas and EMEA • Partner with cross-functional teams to assess payroll, compliance, and operational impacts of expansion initiatives • Lead payroll-related projects, including system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and process redesign initiatives • Continuously evaluate and implement best practices to support a scalable and efficient payroll function • Champion the use of AI-powered tools, automation, and emerging technologies to improve payroll efficiency, accuracy, compliance monitoring, reporting, and employee support • Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance operational scalability • Leverage payroll data and analytics to identify trends, provide insights, and support informed decision-making • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance payroll operations, controls, reporting capabilities, and employee experience • Establish and maintain robust payroll controls, governance frameworks, and audit-ready processes • Manage relationships with payroll providers, EOR partners, tax authorities, auditors, and external advisors • Compile, analyse, and present payroll data and reporting to management and key stakeholders • Develop and maintain payroll KPIs, SLAs, and operational metrics, ensuring high levels of accuracy and service delivery • Support internal and external audits and ensure timely resolution of findings and recommendations • Be part of a fun, agile, and supportive team that continuously learns, evolves, and helps each other succeed in a hyper-growth environment • Contribute to building a payroll function that is innovative, scalable, and employee-centric

• Ensures accurate and timely processing of payroll including new hires, terminations, changes to pay rates, and authorized deductions and withholding. • Implements, maintains, and reviews payroll processing systems to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including all hourly wages, benefits, garnishments, taxes and other deductions, and prevailing wage, where applicable. • Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions. • Facilitates audits by providing records and documentation to auditors, and conducts daily internal audits of transactions by the team to ensure accuracy. • Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage and hour laws, and best practices, including prevailing wage, where applicable. • Identifies and recommends updates to payroll processing software, systems, and procedures. • Actively updates knowledge related to state by state and federal best practices. • Performs other compliance and accounting duties as assigned.

• Collaborate with clients to capture payroll requirements and guide them through workshops, questionnaires, and configuration steps. • Coordinate payroll system setup and configuration. • Validate payroll solutions and integrations, ensuring compliance with legal payroll regulations. • Assist with data mapping, migration, and validation to ensure accuracy across systems. • Support YTD data preparation and confirm readiness for go-live. • Manage system testing phases, including SIT, UAT, E2E, and parallel runs. • Address system and integration issues, and coordinate defect resolution with global teams. • Oversee go-live activities, ensuring accurate configurations and data readiness. • Provide insights and solutions for client-specific updates and configurations. • Manage post-payroll configurations and address outstanding client-specific updates. • Document workflows and processes, and transfer knowledge to local and global teams for system maintenance. • Track project progress, report to project managers, and ensure deadlines are met.

• Create and influence the next phase of the Global Payroll and Time transformation roadmap, driving digital transformation by deploying Artificial Intelligence agents, Robotic Process Automation, and live Middleware Application Programming Interface integrations to build an exception-free payroll ecosystem. • Formulate and enforce global payroll policies, maintaining strict accuracy of financial information while ensuring unwavering compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) frameworks, regional data residency laws (such as General Data Protection Regulation, Personal Data Protection Act, and Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados), and stringent digital tax mandates. • Partner closely with Global Benefits, Total Rewards, Finance, Treasury, and Legal teams to design and maintain robust, integrated end-to-end data flows across global benefits, equity, and allowances while overseeing the payroll integration of new business Mergers and Acquisitions. • Oversee the final phase of a multi-year effort to transition remaining countries into a single outsourcing vendor solution (Strada), managing performance to deliver exceptional services. • Lead, coach, and reskill the global Iron Mountain Payroll delivery team, shifting traditional operational staff to focus on process management, data analysis, and continuous improvement across remote, cross-cultural, and matrixed lines.