Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly payroll processing, including base pay, variable compensation, equity compensation, statutory and supplemental benefits, payroll taxes, deductions, and related payments.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a regional payroll team.
• Serve as the regional payroll subject matter expert and primary escalation point for EMEA payroll matters.
• Manage external payroll vendors, HRIS partners, benefits providers, stock administration, Finance, Accounting, People teams, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor vendor performance, service delivery, issue resolution, and escalations.
• Ensure compliance with local payroll tax, employment tax, statutory reporting, withholding, benefits, and employment regulations.
• Maintain knowledge of regional benefits legislation and payroll implications.
• Maintain operating procedures, controls, reconciliations, approvals, and documentation for internal controls, audits, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Finance and Accounting on payroll accounting, accruals, journal entries, reconciliations, and payroll-related financial statement impacts.
• Support payroll transformation, vendor transitions, country implementations, system enhancements, and control improvements.
• Monitor and report payroll KPIs, metrics, service levels, operational risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement focused on accuracy, compliance, scalability, employee experience, and efficiency.
• Support expansion into additional EMEA countries.

Requirements

• Significant experience managing end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries.
• Strong international payroll knowledge, including payroll processing, payroll taxes, statutory reporting, benefits, timekeeping, accruals, equity compensation, and local compliance.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and developing direct reports.
• Experience managing external payroll vendors and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of payroll controls, audit requirements, reconciliations, and internal control concepts.
• Ability to assess risk, identify control gaps, and implement practical, scalable solutions.
• Understanding of payroll accounting principles and the impact of payroll activity on financial statements.
• Experience using payroll KPIs, metrics, dashboards, or reporting to manage performance and drive improvement.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-partnership skills.
• Analytical, accurate, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, changing priorities, and complex regional payroll matters.
• Strong customer-service mindset and commitment to a positive employee experience.
• Experience in a public company or SOX-controlled environment.

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid role for candidates based in Dublin or Cork.