# Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll

**Company:** [MongoDB](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mongodb)
**Location:** Cork, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
**Role:** People Ops
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** International Payroll, Payroll Taxes, Statutory Reporting, Payroll Accounting, Payroll Controls, Reconciliations, Equity Compensation, HRIS, Vendor Management, Sox Controls, Payroll Kpis, Benefits Administration
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries, managing a regional team, vendors, compliance, controls, accounting, and process improvements. The role requires significant international payroll experience and is hybrid for candidates based in Dublin or Cork.

## Job Description

## 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.

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