Global Payroll Projects Lead

About the Position

We are seeking a Global Payroll Projects Lead to support the SVP of Global Reward and Payroll in delivering the global payroll strategy and transformation roadmap.

This is a hands-on project delivery role, responsible for creating and executing project plans across payroll process improvement, acquisitions, vendor consolidation, systems, payments, compliance, and IPO readiness.

You will coordinate stakeholders, manage delivery, and ensure agreed payroll projects are implemented effectively across the global business.

Responsibilities

• Translate priorities set by the SVP of Global Reward and Payroll into clear project plans, with defined actions, owners, milestones, risks, and deliverables.
• Manage and execute global payroll projects from planning through to implementation and operational handover.
• Support the integration of payrolls following acquisitions, including process reviews, data migration, testing, vendor transition, and cutover.
• Coordinate payroll vendor implementations, migrations, and consolidation projects.
• Support payroll system implementations and integrations with HR, Finance, Treasury, benefits, time and attendance, banking, and other relevant systems.
• Identify and deliver continuous improvements to global payroll processes, including opportunities to use automation and AI to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and strengthen controls.
• Coordinate improvements to payroll payment and funding methods, working with Payroll, Finance, Treasury, banks, and external providers.
• Support payroll compliance and IPO-readiness activities, including process and control documentation, evidence gathering, action tracking, and remediation.
• Act as a key contact for internal and external auditors, HMRC, and other relevant authorities, connecting them with the appropriate payroll teams and subject-matter experts.
• Maintain project plans, risk and action logs, provide regular progress updates, and escalate material issues to the SVP of Global Reward and Payroll.
• Coordinate stakeholders across Payroll, People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Technology, and external vendors.
• Ensure completed projects are documented, communicated, and successfully handed over to the teams responsible for ongoing delivery.

Requirements

• Core Skills:
  • Experience working in global or multi-country payroll projects, transformation, or operations.
  • Strong project-management skills, with experience creating and executing detailed delivery plans.
  • Experience supporting payroll system implementations, integrations, vendor changes, or acquisitions.
  • A good understanding of payroll processes, compliance, controls, and payments.
  • Experience coordinating audits or complex information requests would be beneficial.
  • A hands-on, organized, and delivery-focused approach.
  • Strong stakeholder-management, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • An interest in using technology, automation, and AI to improve payroll operations.
  • Experience supporting IPO readiness, SOX compliance would be advantageous.

We Offer

• Access to DAZN streaming service
• Annual leave increasing by 3 days after 3 years
• Private medical insurance (fully financed by DAZN)
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme (Pracowniczy Program Emerytalny)
• Medicover sport and benefits' platform by NAIS (with sports, fashion, shopping, tourism, pubs, development, and courses benefits with kudos, charity options)
• Vet and Life insurance for pets
• Financially rewarding ‘Refer a Friend’ scheme
• Family-friendly community
• Opportunity for flexible working
• Employee Assistance Program (psychological, managerial, legal, and financial counselling)
• Free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind)
• Learning and development resources
• Access to our internal speaker series and events
• High-end laptops (Macs or Windows)

About the Company

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers, and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionize the industry, and we're not going to stop.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:

• Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
• Prioritizing what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
• Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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