Remote Global Payroll Operations Leader

Jobgether; España; Presencial; EUR 85.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive compensation

Work-from-anywhere

Flexible hours

Flexible paid time off

16 weeks parental leave

Coworking budget

Wellness activities

Gym memberships

Mental health support

Stock options

Home office budget

IT equipment

Professional development

Internal career mobility

Pay equity focus

International payroll infrastructure

Descripción de la vacante

Jobgether, listing on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Manager, Payroll Operations based in Spain to lead global payroll delivery across countries. You will manage a team of payroll specialists, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely execution while collaborating with Finance, Legal, People Operations, Product and Service teams in a globally distributed environment.

The role emphasizes people leadership, process improvement, and payroll implementations, including country launches, vendor

Formación

• Proven experience owning payroll outcomes for a team within a regional or multi-country environment.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and team development.
• Strong experience investigating payroll issues and driving operational resolutions within defined authority.
• Ability to interpret, communicate, and consistently apply payroll policies, controls, and processes.
• Experience contributing to hiring decisions, organizational changes, and performance-related actions.
• Strong operational judgment, with the ability to balance accuracy, compliance, speed, and customer impact.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly in asynchronous and globally distributed environments.
• Experience working with external payroll vendors and managing operational relationships.
• Experience supporting payroll implementations, country launches, vendor transitions, or payroll transformation initiatives is highly valuable.
• Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and organizational skills, with a high degree of ownership and accountability.
• Fluency in English; additional languages are an advantage.
• Experience working in a remote-first or internationally distributed organization is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Polish or Czech payroll is advantageous.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of payroll specialists, creating a high-accountability and supportive environment focused on performance, growth, and continuous improvement.
• Own payroll outcomes across an assigned portfolio of countries, ensuring accurate, timely, consistent, and compliant delivery.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of country-specific payroll requirements, policies, controls, and operational processes.
• Investigate complex or escalated payroll issues, identify root causes, drive resolution, and communicate risks or delays proactively.
• Provide input into performance evaluations, development plans, hiring decisions, team changes, and performance actions when required.
• Manage relationships with external payroll vendors and ensure services meet operational, compliance, and quality expectations.
• Support global payroll implementations, including new country launches, vendor transitions, and initiatives to bring payroll operations in-house.
• Provide market-specific expertise during implementation projects, identify execution risks early, and help ensure stable operations following go-live.
• Identify recurring issues, operational risks, and process gaps, and lead improvements that reduce errors, increase efficiency, and expand team capacity.
• Support the rollout of automation, new tools, and standardized workflows while monitoring KPIs, service levels, and quality metrics.
• Partner with People Operations, Finance, Legal, Product, Service Operations, and other stakeholders to translate payroll complexity into clear and actionable guidance.
• Support operational service activities, including team performance and engagement through service-management tools such as Zendesk.

Conocimientos

People leadership

Payroll operations

Cross-country payroll

Vendor management

Policy interpretation

Hiring decisions

Operational judgment

Communication

Payroll implementations

Problem solving

English fluency

Remote / distributed work

Polish payroll

Czech payroll

Descripción del empleo

Jobgether, listing on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Manager, Payroll Operations based in Spain to lead global payroll delivery across countries. You will manage a team of payroll specialists, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely execution while collaborating with Finance, Legal, People Operations, Product and Service teams in a globally distributed environment.

The role emphasizes people leadership, process improvement, and payroll implementations, including country launches, vendor