European Payroll Service Delivery Manager

Business: Finance

Reports to: Global Shared Service, EMEA Payroll Process Owner

Description:

Provides first line people management, with responsibility for the team’s payroll activities across a set of EMEA countries. Provide day to day leadership, ensuring proper and adequate controls and processes, monitoring performance while managing and developing the payroll team.

• Monitors daily the team's performance, ensures direct reports meet their individual tasks, deadlines and perform to established standards
• Supporting the team to ensure each team member excel individually
• Motivates the team to work together towards the success of a common goal
• Solving problems, including root cause analysis and process improvement based on findings
• Evaluates and reports performance of service and takes corrective actions when needed
• Ensures adherence to SOX & other guidelines and supports internal & external audits
• Support ongoing outsourcing relationship with Payroll vendors in the region
• Ensures that payroll services are processed in accordance with established global policies and procedures along with all legislative compliance requirements
• Creates and implements realistic goals for team in alignment with EMEA Payroll strategy
• Builds & maintains long-term relationships with internal or external customers & key stakeholders (e.g. HR, Legal, Global Corporate Controllers, external vendors)
• Replicates Payroll best practices across countries within the team and ensures that process documentation is continuously updated

• 5+ years in European Payroll environment overall with increasing responsibility in the payroll, HR or finance function including global experience (EMEA required, APAC and LATAM preferred)
• Demonstrated strong leadership of Payroll global/remote team
• Large, Multi entity payroll leadership, required
• Experience in the following areas desired: Accounting, Mergers, Divestitures and Acquisitions, PeopleSoft HRMS (or other HR Systems), ADP, NGA, time and attendance systems, and leading large-scale payroll projects
• Excellent communication skills; strong English language
• Strong team member who works across organizational lines – without boundaries; exceeding the results of the organization and surpassing customer expectations
• Strong process and procedure orientation for continuous process improvements
• Demonstrated drive for excellence in operational support and customer service
• Change management experience and ability to facilitate change 

• Convenient office location near Rondo Daszyńskiego
• Labor law contract
• Challenging job in international environment
• Possibility of professional skills development
• Social activities: yoga classes, volleyball, soccer games, basketball team, discount for theater tickets
• Internal trainings
• Co-funding of additional benefits (medical care, insurance care, Multibenefit or Edenred cards)