International Payroll Specialist

JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd is seeking an International Payroll Specialist to oversee European payroll operations from London. The role focuses on managing outsourced payroll across multiple countries, driving compliance, and transitioning more activities in-house as the company expands.

You will work with Finland as the priority market, while gaining exposure to the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway and other European countries.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' experience managing international payroll across Europe.
• Strong experience processing end-to-end payroll across multiple countries.
• Experience with Nordic payrolls (Finland priority) and working with outsourced payroll providers.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payroll operations across multiple European countries via external providers.
• Coordinate payroll inputs, approvals, reconciliations and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with local payroll legislation, payments and taxes across jurisdictions.
• Manage starters, leavers, changes, bonuses, deductions, and payroll queries.
• Liaise with external providers, finance teams and local consultants.
• Reconcile payroll data and support audits.
• Maintain payroll records and reports using advanced Excel.
• Support the transition to in-house payroll activities over time.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes and support international expansion.

Skills

International payroll

End-to-end payroll

Advanced Excel

Vendor management

Tools

NMBRS

Tripletex

Visma

Mepco

Hogia

Job description

Location: London (Hybrid - typically 2-3 days in the office)

Salary: £55,000 plus annual discretionary bonus

Contract: Permanent

Reports to: Finance Director

The Role

This is a newly created standalone International Payroll Specialist position with responsibility for European payroll operations. Payroll is currently outsourced across each country, and you'll oversee vendor management, compliance and payroll delivery while helping bring more payroll activities in-house as the business continues to grow.

The role currently covers payroll across Finland, the Netherlands, Ireland and Norway, with future expansion planned into Denmark, Germany and Spain. Finland is the priority country, although candidates with broader European payroll experience across one or more of the key countries will also be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payroll operations across multiple European countries through external payroll providers.
• Coordinate payroll inputs, approvals, reconciliations and payroll reporting.
• Ensure payroll compliance with local legislation, statutory payments and tax requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Manage starters, leavers, contractual changes, bonuses, deductions and employee payroll queries.
• Liaise with external payroll providers, finance teams and local payroll consultants.
• Reconcile payroll data and support internal and external audits.
• Maintain payroll records, documentation and reporting using advanced Excel.
• Support the long-term transition of payroll activities from outsourced providers to an in-house model.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes and support continued international expansion.

What They're Looking For

• 3-5 years' experience managing international payroll across Europe.
• Strong experience processing end-to-end payroll across multiple countries.
• Previous exposure to Nordic payrolls is highly desirable, with Finland being the priority market.
• Experience working with outsourced payroll providers and multiple payroll vendors.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong understanding of international payroll legislation and compliance.
• Confident working independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage relationships across multiple countries.
• Experience with payroll systems such as NMBRS, Tripletex, Visma, Mepco, Hogia or similar would be advantageous.

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist payroll, HR & Reward recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.