EMEA Payroll Manager

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Job Summary

The EMEA Payroll Manager is responsible for overseeing executing and optimizing payroll operations across multiple countries within the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region ensuring employees and payroll related taxes are paid accurately and on time.

Because this region spans diverse tax structures labor laws and currencies the role is highly complex balancing operational precision with strategic compliance.

Multi-Country Payroll Operations & Strategy

• End-to-End Execution: Overseeing the timely and accurate delivery of monthly payrolls for multiple legal entities across various countries.
• Standardization: Developing and implementing standardized payroll processes across different countries to drive efficiency eliminate redundancies and ensure consistency.
• Currency and Funding Management: Coordinating with Treasury and Finance to ensure correct and timely funding of payroll bank accounts in multiple local currencies.
• Complex Compensation Handling: Managing complex payroll inputs including expatriate payrolls shadow payrolls stock/equity compensation bonuses and country-specific benefits (e.g. 13th/14th-month salary distributions common in parts of Europe).

Compliance and Statutory Regulations

• Tax and Social Security Compliance: Ensuring strict adherence to the differing income tax social security and statutory reporting requirements of each specific country within EMEA
• Labor Law Adherence: Staying abreast of changing local labor laws collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) and works council requirements that dictate pay overtime and termination payouts.
• Data Privacy & Security: Ensuring all payroll processes and employee data handling fully comply with the European Unions General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other regional privacy laws.
• Audit Readiness: Leading internal and external payroll audits ensuring all documentation is meticulous and addressing statutory filings required by local government authorities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Accounting Partnership: Working closely with the accounting team to ensure payroll data maps correctly to the General Ledger (GL) providing support with month-end reconciliations forecast and monthly/quarterly payroll expenses flux movement analysis.
• HR & Benefits Alignment: Partnering with regional HR Business Partners compensation and benefits teams to seamlessly integrate new hires terminations promotions and country-specific benefits
• Employee Support: Acting as the escalation point for complex employee queries regarding pay and payroll taxation & withholdings.
• Vendors management: Partnering with outsourced payroll vendors on process and systems improvements acting as the escalation point for payroll operations related issues ensuring payroll vendors comply with agreed-upon SLAs and KPIs.

System Implementation and Continuous Improvement

• Technology Upgrades: Participating in the implementation and integration of global HR Information Systems (HRIS) Workday with local payroll software wherever possible as well as deployment of automated PTO administration in Workday for various countries.
• Automation: Continuously reviewing payroll workflows to automate manual inputs reduce human error and accelerate processing timelines.

Team Leadership and Development

• Team Management: Leading mentoring and developing a team of payroll specialists ensuring adequate coverage and cross-training across different countries.
• Resource Allocation: Structuring the payroll team to efficiently handle regional workloads being hands-on running payrolls if required.

Qualifications

Relevant educational background/degree preferably in accounting

7 years relevant working experience in EMEA Payroll with an in-depth understanding of varying tax structures statutory benefits pensions and social security requirements

Excellent Problem-solving skills

Ability to be operationally hands-on by running payrolls if required

Proven track record in leading managing and developing a team of payroll specialists

Open to drive changes and challenge status-quo

High sense of confidentiality and integrity

Organized

Excellent Microsoft Excel application skills

High attention to accuracy and detail

Ability to work under pressure and remain calm

Fast learner

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Outstanding analytical skills

Self-driven

Pro-active

Fluent in English (both written and verbal)

Ability to work in a dynamic fast moving and demanding environment

Qualifications

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