Payroll Manager

WHO WE ARE

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire grow and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity intelligence and omnichannel activation into a single platform powered by one of the industrys largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more go to .

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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Payroll Manager to own and deliver UK payroll operations with additional exposure to Australia and New Zealand payroll. This role is ideal for a handson payroll professional with strong UK expertise who has worked within a CloudPay environment and is comfortable operating in a multicountry context.

You will be responsible for ensuring accurate compliant and timely payroll processing while partnering closely with HR Finance and external providers to deliver an excellent employee experience.

Key Responsibilities

UK Payroll (Primary Focus)

• Own endtoend UK payroll processing.
• Ensure compliance with PAYE National Insurance pensions (autoenrolment) statutory payments and HMRC reporting.
• Manage payroll calendars approvals reconciliations and yearend activities.
• Act as escalation point for complex UK payroll issues.

Australia & New Zealand Payroll (Secondary)

• Support payroll activities for Australia and New Zealand either directly or through vendors.
• Ensure understanding of local statutory requirements and legislative updates.
• Superannuation payroll processing.

Systems & Vendors

• Operate payroll processes using CloudPay (required).
• Partner with HRIS teams to support data accuracy and payroll integrations.
• Workday experience is a strong plus particularly for employee data and payroll inputs.
• Manage relationships with external payroll providers and ensure service quality.

Controls Reporting & Improvement

• Perform payroll reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Support audits and internal controls.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and greater efficiency.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong experience managing UK payroll endtoend.
• Handson experience with CloudPay.
• Solid understanding of UK payroll legislation and compliance.
• Pensions in connections with payroll
• Experience working with external payroll vendors.
• High attention to detail and strong stakeholder communication skills.

Desirable

• Payroll experience in Australia and/or New Zealand.
• Exposure to Workday.
• Exposure to benefit admin with relation to payroll.
• Experience in a regional or multicountry payroll model.
• Payroll qualification (e.g. CIPP) is a plus.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Excellent medical dental and vision coverage

PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA

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