EMEA Regional Payroll Manager

If you are looking for a company that values candidate and employee experience, development, and career advancement with a focus on promoting from within, we are a match for you. Our collaborative culture fosters cross-functional development and opportunities based on personal interests. As the EMEA Regional Payroll Manager, you will play a key role and will lead the payroll function to deliver world-class payroll support and services to our colleagues.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define strategy and standard work to validate payroll processing data and documents to ensure within defined thresholds, while adhering to all audit requirements, payroll calendars, and payment timelines.
• Define regional strategy where we have an employee presence (Germany, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, UAE, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Austria, Croatia, Ireland, Romania, Spain).
• Define strategy, in coordination with the Director Global Payroll, to ensure the payroll end-to-end process in all countries meets audit timelines, compliant with country legislation, and documented understanding of funding for taxes, employee net pay, and third-party payments.
• Define strategy in partnership with the Payroll Systems Analyst to confirm data provided through integration is meeting accuracy and timeliness guidelines.
• Define, in partnership with the Director Global Payroll, a regional payroll processing strategy.
• Develop standard work for all regional payroll processes including stakeholder input as required to ensure coordination with regional policy, HR workstreams, and finance requirements.
• Define process for processing annual statements and strategy to communicate to employees to reduce MUDA in employee inquiries.
• Execute strategy, as defined globally, for managing Tax Exemptions (Student Visas, WA LTC, etc.).
• Define strategy for year-end processes including working with HR and Finance stakeholders to include all taxable income.
• Execute regional strategy, in line with global strategy, for collecting equity required to be processed in payroll.
• Develop strategy to process all opcos under shared service model by optimizing processes and leveraging process improvement tools.
• Define strategy, in line with global strategy, in defining visual management to easily identify areas for improvement, control limits, and adding additional opportunities for measurements to increase optimization.
• Knowledge and skill set to run standard and create ad hoc reports.
• Define strategy for payroll calendars to optimize staff in processing all regional payrolls.
• Identify gaps and seek opportunities for continuous payroll process improvement.
• Define strategy to execute termination and deceased wage payments compliant with country legislations.
• Define strategy for processing wage garnishments in compliance with local laws.
• Define strategy for accurate and on-time governmental reporting and compliance.

YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE IF YOU HAVE:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to combine attention to detail with big picture perspective.
• Ability to comfortably speak to business line managers, HR, and Finance stakeholders and establish a communication cadence.
• Able to develop effective working relationships with various and diverse stakeholders to gain commitment to payroll strategy.
• Excellent time management, ability to meet deadlines, and organizational skills.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience preferred working with ADP Global View, ADP Celergo, and ADP eTime.
• Ability to deliver under tight deadlines, resourceful and solution-oriented.
• Ability to delegate effectively, lead a remote team, while willing to pitch in and help wherever necessary.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can operate with flexibility.
• Able to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to gain credibility with Opco’s, influence others and make recommendations for change.
• Proven track record of consistently meeting goals and objectives.
• Exhibits strong project skills with the ability to develop functional and technical business requirements and execute the plan facilitating with ADP, HR, and/or IT.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field with 7 years hands-on experience with a strong understanding of payroll.
• 7-10 years’ experience with regional payroll delivery models working with ADP GlobalView, ADP Celergo, or ADP Streamline service models.
• Experience in regional countries with a presence (Germany, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, UAE, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Austria, Croatia, Ireland, Romania, Spain).
• Must be proficient with MS Office software (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint).
• Preferred experience with other collaboration tools such as Miro and Teams Canvas.
• Regional payroll related certifications.
• Multi-lingual: English, German, French, Dutch, Slovak preferred.