Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking an experienced and self-motivated Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll to lead payroll operations across the EMEA region. This role will be responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery across multiple countries, while leading a regional payroll team, managing external vendor relationships, strengthening controls, and driving process standardization. WHAT YOU'LL DO As Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll, you will be responsible for leading end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland. Your key responsibilities will include: - Ensuring accurate and timely monthly payroll processing, including base pay, variable compensation, equity compensation, statutory benefits, supplemental benefits, payroll taxes, deductions, and related payments - Managing, mentoring, and developing a regional payroll team, including oversight of workload, performance, priorities, and development needs - Serving as the regional payroll subject matter expert and primary escalation point for payroll-related matters across EMEA - Managing relationships with external payroll vendors, HRIS partners, benefits providers, stock administration, Finance, Accounting, People teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders - Monitoring vendor performance, service delivery, issue resolution, and escalation management to ensure payroll obligations are met - Ensuring payroll processes are compliant with local payroll tax, employment tax, statutory reporting, withholding, benefits, and employment regulations in each country of operation - Maintaining a strong understanding of in-region benefits legislation and the payroll implications of statutory and supplemental benefit programs - Ensuring robust operating procedures, controls, reconciliations, approvals, and documentation are in place to support internal controls, audit requirements, and regulatory compliance - Partnering with Finance and Accounting to support payroll accounting, accruals, journal entries, reconciliations, and resolution of payroll-related financial statement impacts - Supporting payroll projects, including process standardization, payroll transformation, vendor transitions, country implementations, system enhancements, and control improvements - Monitoring and reporting on payroll KPIs, metrics, service levels, operational risks, and process improvement opportunities - Driving continuous improvement across payroll operations with a focus on accuracy, compliance, scalability, employee experience, and operational efficiency - Supporting expansion into additional EMEA countries as the business grows WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 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 payroll compliance requirements - Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing direct reports - Experience managing external payroll vendors and cross-functional stakeholder relationships - Strong understanding of payroll controls, audit requirements, reconciliations, and internal control concepts - Ability to assess risk, identify control gaps, and implement practical, scalable solutions - Solid 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 skills with the ability to partner effectively with internal teams, external advisors,