EMEA Regional Payroll Senior Manager

Career Area:

Human Resources

Job Description:

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Job Title: EMEA Regional Payroll Senior Manager

Salary: From £84,857 Dependent Upon Experience

Location: Peterborough, UK

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave,

• Up to 31% Bonus

• Car Allowance – £675 pcm

• Private Medical Healthcare

• Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee\’s contribution Up to 10%

• Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee\’s contribution.

• Optional flexible benefits including access to family health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a payroll professional with a passion for leadership and strategic direction to join our dynamic team as an EMEA Regional Senior Payroll Manager, where you will lead payroll teams across the EMEA region to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing in compliance with all jurisdictional obligations.

In this pivotal role, you will provide strategic guidance to streamline and enhance payroll processes, driving efficiency and excellence in our operations.

The role presents the opportunity to make a significant impact in a large corporation, we invite you to apply and be part of our success story.

What You Will Do

• Lead and Oversee:Manage payroll processing for multiple locations, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time.

• Collaborate:Work closely with HR business partners to integrate payroll processes seamlessly.

• Support:Provide expert guidance on complex payroll issues to prevent disruptions.

• Develop:Continuously improve payroll policies and procedures for greater efficiency and accuracy.

• Ensure Compliance:Maintain adherence to all relevant laws and regulations, including tax requirements.

• Manage Performance:Foster the professional growth of team members to achieve their development goals.

What You Will Have

Payroll Management: Knowledge of payroll policy and methods; ability to use tools, techniques and processes to manage employee payroll and benefits operations.

Level Expert:

• Advises management on regulations for calculating pay, withholding taxes and benefits deductions.

• Champions the latest strategies, developments, and technologies in payroll management.

• Leads in re-engineering the payroll unit of an organization.

• Analyzes the pros and cons of outsourcing payroll operations.

• Consults others on managing the complexities of a large-scale payroll operation.

• Leads in implementing best practices used to manage the payroll function.

Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.

• Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.

• Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.

• Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.

• Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.

• Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.

Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

Level Expert:

• Optimizes time, tools, and resources to achieve desired results.

• Manages links among multiple projects and anticipates the impact of the project\’s outcome on all concerned.

• Synthesizes pertinent information to plan a course of action.

• Documents plans with clear objectives, action steps, accountabilities, resource requirements and timelines.

• Tracks successes in order to establish processes viewed as effective for the entire enterprise.

• Specifies the underlying assumptions related to designated work.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Expert:

• Gains agreement on the problem-solving process, risk assessment, decision points, and criteria.

• Trains others in the process of eliciting alternatives and assessing their impact.

• Orchestrates the resolution of high-impact and cross-functional problems.

• Successfully organizes problem solvers and stakeholders for high-impact problems.

• Predicts and explains long-term trends and implications for alternatives.

• Monitors industry for best practices and new techniques in problem-solving.

• Specifies the underlying assumptions related to designated work.

Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.

Level Expert:

• Develops, implements, monitors, and fine-tunes transitional programs.

• Adjusts departmental priorities and resource allocations to support changing needs.

• Coaches others to view failure is an opportunity to learn for the future.

• Adapts leadership style and management to situation at hand.

• Promotes new trends and changing demands as opportunities for the organization.

• Demonstrates an ability to thrive in an unstructured, ambiguous environment.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Reviews others\’ writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.

• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.

• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.

• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Top candidates for the role will ideally demonstrate the following.

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or Human Resources.

• Progressive Payroll leadership experience in a multi-location or regional capacity.

• Experience with Workday, iiPay, or ADP payroll systems.

• Experience in payroll system implementation, streamlining payroll operations and workflow automation.

• Payroll certification preferred.

Additional Information:

• The role is based in the office 5 day per week

• There will be occasional travel with this role.

What You Will Get

We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate to our dynamic, diverse and friendly team. We have a culture of openness, autonomy, support, personal development as well as a continuous drive for improvement.

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers success #LI

Posting Dates:

July 7, 2025 – July 20, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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