Emea Payroll Manager

This role leads a team responsible for processing payroll for the company in UK, Germany, and Switzerland, and for the offices in Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.
- Ensures that payroll is run accurately and in compliance with all federal, state, local and regulatory requirements.
- Manages the implementation and administration of payroll policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Collaborates with other regional payroll leads and across the company to identify measures to improve methods, performance, and quality of service, and drives the implementation of changes to increase efficiency.
- This role also works closely with the Finance and Internal Audit teams to ensure all financial controls and reporting are correct.
- The role will be required to travel regularly between UK and Switzerland locations, there will also be a limited need to travel within other locations covered by the EMEA team
- This role is responsible for a team of 16 in total, with 5 direct reports. The team is based in the UK and Switzerland.
- Management of the EMEA Payroll Process and people

**Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Manages the payroll process for supported countries from start to finish, ensuring timely and accurate processing, delivery, and reconciliation.
- Manages the team’s production of all monthly and special compensation payroll runs.
- Oversees and participates in pre
- and post-payroll auditing procedures and troubleshoots anomalies.
- Manages the relationship with outsourced payroll platform providers and ensures excellent payroll service.
- Deliver Payroll reporting metrics, meeting business and executive reporting requirements.
- Ensure delivery of statutory global compliance reporting, such as PAYE Payments, F24, Tax filing, pension, and garnishment requirements, SAO, PSA, P11ds, STBV, expat taxation and reporting
- Lead the relevant tax and regulatory reporting, quarter end and year end payroll activities, including wage and hour laws, unemployment, and all other required submissions. Plan and coordinate the production and distribution of all employee tax statementsand notifications as required by local law.
- Manage and implement the Company compliance policies by containing risk in liaison with Finance, Compliance per region to ensure payroll embrace all relevant financial/employment and legal services, laws and codes with which the business must comply.
- Lead the taxation and statutory requirements for mobility, Expats, and short-term business visitors.
- Lead internal and external audits within supported countries ensuring process improvements are introduced as necessary and in line with audit findings
- Develop and manage country risk control logs for each country’s end to end local payroll processes, with clearly defined control ownership, to drive & support adherence to internal compliance and external regulatory requirements
- Develop robust Business Continuity Plans
- Builds and maintains a strong high-performing team through effective recruiting, training, coaching, team building, performance management and resource planning. Prepares and participates in the preparation of department objectives and staff developmentplans for each functional associate. Assesses the skills and skill levels necessary to achieve work objectives.
- Responsible for defining, measuring, and adhering to appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) established under the service delivery model. Manages and designs solutions and programs to drive towards achieving established Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

**Knowledge, Skills and Competencies**
- Strong project management, stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Effective leadership and engagement.
- High level analytical and problem-solving capability.
- Strong process management and business process analysis competencies and demonstrated ability to support complex HR/Payroll models. The role will operate with high level of autonomy, engaging directly with key stakeholders and suppliers at a Regional andCountry level.
- Fluent German speaker preferred with German Payroll Experience
- BA/BS degree preferred. CIPP Payroll or similar preferred. Prior experience managing payroll for a company with multiple locations and international operations is a pre-requisite (preferably previous experience of German and Swiss Payroll)