Payroll Manager in Slough

Payroll Manager (EMEA)

We are searching for a highly experienced and meticulous Payroll Manager to take ownership of the end-to-end payroll function across our EMEA region. This is a critical standalone role that requires a self-motivated professional capable of ensuring accuracy, driving compliance, and providing exceptional service to our employees and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the monthly payroll process for all EMEA employees, ensuring absolute accuracy and compliance with diverse local regulations and tax requirements.
• Strategic Collaboration: Act as a crucial partner to the People & Culture (P&C) and Finance teams, supporting new hires, employee changes, and accurate data maintenance.
• Vendor Management: Coordinate and manage relationships with external, outsourced payroll providers, ensuring the smooth implementation of changes and verification of all outputs.
• Compliance & Reporting: Prepare, review, and submit draft payrolls for final tax calculations, ensuring timely approvals. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of local payroll legislation.
• Advisory Service: Act as the primary point of contact for all employee payroll queries, delivering responsive, empathetic, and solution-oriented support.
• Process Improvement: Drive continuous enhancements to payroll workflows, systems, and vendor relationships, identifying opportunities for best practice adoption and efficiency.
• Termination Processing: Ensure timely and compliant processing of employee terminations, including accurate final payments and required local documentation.
• Analytical Insight: Analyse monthly payroll changes, providing actionable insights and reporting to key internal stakeholders.

Essential Experience & Skills:

• Prior experience in managing payroll across the EMEA region is essential.
• Familiarity with diverse local tax regulations across EMEA is a strong advantage.
• Independent Operator: Proven capability to manage the entire payroll function independently, often as a one-person payroll team.
• Technically Proficient: Proficiency in Excel, including VLOOKUPs, tables, and basic formulas, is required.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with internal teams (P&C, Finance) and external outsourced providers.
• Detail-Oriented: Exceptional levels of accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring compliance with internal controls and external regulatory requirements.
• Proactive & Analytical: Possesses a curious and analytical mindset, with a willingness to question data, challenge assumptions, and take full ownership of queries through to resolution.
• Flexible: A willingness to adapt working hours to meet critical month-end payroll activity peaks and deadlines.

If you are a self-driven Payroll Manager ready to take the reins of a complex, multi-territory payroll function, we encourage you to apply.