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Director - Global Payroll & Contingent Workforce Management at ZS
📍 Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Parikshit is a global payroll executive at ZS with over 20 years of experience transforming HR and payroll services at firms like McKinsey & Company. He specializes in elevating payroll into a strategic business lever through digital transformation and operational excellence. People who have worked with him describe him as strategic, detail-oriented, and an inclusive leader.

His current focus includes building one of the first agentic AI architectures in enterprise payroll, aiming to significantly reduce manual effort.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Director - Global Payroll & Contingent Workforce Management
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
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Agentic AI in Payroll
He is currently building a 10-agent M365-native AI system at ZS, designed to automate and reduce manual payroll efforts across 18 countries.
Global Payroll Transformation
His entire career focuses on transforming fragmented, country-specific payroll systems into unified, strategic global platforms at companies like ZS, McKinsey, and Olam.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Director - Global Payroll & Contingent Workforce Management
ZS
6-2023 - 3-2026
Director - Global payroll
ZS
3-2021 - 5-2023
Global Head of Payroll & GPO
McKinsey & Company
4-2020 - 3-2021
General Manager - Global Head of Payroll & HRSS | Digital Transformations
Olam Information Services Private Limited
4-2018 - 3-2020
Senior Manager - Global Payroll and HR Operations
Olam Information Services Private Limited
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Education
4-2020 - 4-2021
eMDP
Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
2020 - 2021
ePGP
Amity University Gurugram
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