EMEA Payroll Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a EMEA Payroll Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for payroll funding in each location and advise/pass this information onto Finance;
- Payroll Accounting: Reconciliations, journals and the GL;
- Lead on all pension auto-enrolment including: Liaison with provider, calculations, uploads in-line with the monthly payroll process;
- Process and communicate all payroll updates and changes with high levels of accuracy and attention to detail;
- Look to constantly improve levels of efficiency by putting new processes and procedures in place;
- Be the subject matter expert on all UK and EMEA payroll matters;
- Management of external Tax Advisors for the production of P60s, P11Ds and other year-end reporting;
- Be the subject matter expert for systems implementation for payroll and lead from the front;
- Be the lead on all UK and EMEA payrolls with constant liaison with local and international payroll providers;
- Internal liaison with HR, Finance, Benefits, Reward and Senior Stakeholders;
- Provide relevant and up to date information to the benefits providers;
- Be the subject matter expert on all UK and EMEA benefits questions and queries.
Requirements:
- High level of attention to detail;
- You must be a proven Payroll Manager with relevant EMEA exposure along with strong Benefits experience;
- Vendor management;
- Show experience of Change Management and improvement of processes and procedures;
- Payroll Accounting: Reconciliations, journals and GL;
- Strong communications skills set internal and external;
- Strong payroll systems experience along with Excel (V Look Ups and Pivot Tables);
- Business Partner skill set with Senior Stakeholders and Vendors;
- Must have management experience and ideally developed teams;
- Ideally speak German to a business level;
- Payroll systems ADP;
- Strong analytical skill set;
- Must have a wealth of payroll experience and exposure across the UK and EMEA with a focus on Germany;
- Strong Excel (V Look Ups/Pivot Tables);
- Strong communication skills internal/external.