Regional Payroll Manager

About the Position

We are looking for a Regional Payroll Manager to join our team in Bucharest, Romania. This role is pivotal in managing and overseeing payroll operations across the EMEA region, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in a multi-country environment.

Responsibilities

• Global Alignment: Ensure EMEA payroll operations align with Global Payroll Operation standards.
• Multi-country Delivery: Maintain accuracy and compliance across multiple EMEA countries.
• Vendor & ICP Governance: Manage and audit regional payroll vendors and partners.
• M&A Harmonisation: Lead onboarding and standardisation of acquired entities.
• Statutory Compliance and Reporting: Ensure compliance with regional statutory frameworks.
• Pay Transparency and Pay Equity: Partner with HR and Legal teams on pay transparency.
• Data Protection: Ensure compliance with GDPR and local data-protection laws.
• Financial Reporting & Accounting: Deliver timely month-end reporting packages.
• Year-End & Statutory Filings: Direct and validate statutory filings.
• Internal Controls & SOX: Ensure SOX compliance across regional payroll processes.
• Audit Collaboration: Serve as the main contact for internal and external auditors.
• Time & Attendance Management: Oversee timekeeping and attendance tracking.
• Process Automation & AI: Pioneer automation initiatives in payroll operations.
• Strategic Compensation Operations: Direct complex regional pay elements.
• Team Development: Provide leadership and mentorship to the regional payroll team.

Requirements

• Essential:

  • Degree-level education or relevant professional experience.
  • Significant experience managing complex, multi-country payroll operations.
  • Strong knowledge of EMEA statutory payroll requirements.
  • Working knowledge of UK GDPR and data-protection obligations.
  • AI-literate with the ability to use AI and automation tools.
  • Experience managing payroll data across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and global enterprise payroll platforms.

• Desirable:

  • Professional payroll qualification, such as CIPP.
  • Experience managing payroll across multiple EMEA countries.
  • Working knowledge of the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
  • Experience using automation tools to improve payroll processes.
  • Experience supporting payroll transformation, system migration, or process standardisation.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing company
• Professional development opportunities

About the Company

We fuse together exceptional talent who deliver outstanding software solutions. Our approach has helped us grow 60% in 2021, 94% in 2022, and in 2023, we joined forces with Insight, a Fortune 500 company and a leading solutions and systems integrator. With exciting growth plans and cutting-edge projects, there has never been a better time to join our incredible team.

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