Payroll Manager

Join our Global Payroll team as a Payroll Manager, where you will lead UK and European payroll operations, manage a team of payroll specialists, and ensure accurate and compliant payroll delivery across multiple jurisdictions. You will also serve as the primary escalation point for payroll issues and partner with HR, Finance, Legal, and external payroll providers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the monthly payroll cycle for UK and European entities, ensuring timely and accurate delivery across all jurisdictions.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for payroll issues, partnering with HR, Finance, Legal, and external payroll providers to ensure compliance.
• Evaluate and strengthen payroll policies, processes, and controls, proactively identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
• Thrives in a fast paced, deadline driven, multi entity environment
• Demonstrated ownership mindset, able to drive recurring deadlines and ad hoc projects through to completion without close oversight

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required

• Advanced Excel skills, comfort working with payroll system reporting and reconciliation
• Proven ability to manage vendor relationships and hold third parties accountable to service levels
• Minimum 5 to 7 years of payroll experience, including at least 2 years in a people management or team lead capacity
• Deep knowledge of UK and broader European statutory payroll requirements, multi-jurisdiction experience strongly preferred
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, and workload planning
• Demonstrated experience managing processes controlled under SOX and supporting external audits
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to navigate conversations with senior leaders, HR, Legal, and Finance with discretion and confidentiality
• GBP 60,000 - 90,000

Preferred

• Workday HRIS experience strongly preferred
• Hands on ADP experience required, Vistra experience strongly preferred