Payroll Finance Integration & Transformation Manager

Caterpillar Inc.; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 25% travel

On-site role

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Peterborough, UK, seeks a Senior Manager, Payroll to lead the payroll-to-finance connection, ensure data accuracy, and drive automation with Finance, Tax, Treasury, and down-stream teams. This role focuses on reducing manual work and delivering scalable, compliant payroll processes.

You'll partner with HR, IT, and senior leaders in a high-visibility, global transformation program, shaping future-state processes and technology solutions while managing risks and controls.

Qualifications

• Experience leading payroll transformation or automation projects.
• Ability to partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams globally.
• Strong knowledge of payroll accounting, journals, reconciliations, and controls.
• Experience in HR operations and payroll policy understanding.

Responsibilities

• Govern end-to-end payroll-to-finance processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Simplify and modernize payroll data movement and processes.
• Champion automation and stronger controls to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Partner with Finance leaders to implement scalable payroll solutions and compliance.
• Lead multi-year global payroll transformation and shape future-state processes and tech solutions.

Skills

Payroll Accounting

Process Improvement

Cross-functional Leadership

Decision Making

Influencing

Interpersonal Skills

Payroll Controls

Automation

HR Operations

FINS Knowledge

Workday HCM

Tools

Workday HCM

FINS

Job description

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Career Area

Human Resources

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Job Title: Payroll Finance Integration & Transformation Manager

Salary: £79,424 + Dependent Upon Experience

Location: Peterborough, UK

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + 8 Bank Holidays
• Up to 20% bonus
• Car Allowance Monthly
• Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%
• Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Position Summary

As Senior Manager, Payroll, you will lead the connection between Payroll and Finance, ensuring payroll data flows accurately and efficiently to Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and other downstream stakeholders.

Today, many of these processes rely on manual workarounds, reconciliations, and intervention. You will play a critical role in transforming how payroll information moves through the organization by simplifying processes, driving automation and strengthening controls. Your work will ensure payroll data is reliable, scalable, and readily consumable by Finance teams across the enterprise.

This is a highly visible role that sits at the center of the company's global payroll transformation and requires strong partnership across Payroll, Finance, HR, and IT functions.

What You'll Do

• Govern the end-to-end payroll-to-finance process, ensuring payroll information is accurate, timely, and usable by Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and other downstream stakeholders.
• Simplify and modernize how payroll data moves across the organization, reducing manual effort and improving data quality.
• Champion automation, standardization, and stronger controls to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Partner with Finance leaders to resolve operational challenges and implement scalable solutions ensuring payroll accounting, reconciliations, funding activities, and compliance requirements are executed accurately and effectively.
• Serve as a key leader in the company's multi-year global payroll transformation, helping shape future-state processes and technology solutions.

What Success Looks Like

• Payroll data flows seamlessly to Finance with minimal manual intervention.
• Payroll accounting, tax reporting, and treasury funding processes are accurate, efficient, and well-controlled.
• Manual reconciliations and workarounds are eliminated through automation and process improvements.
• Finance teams spend less time chasing data and more time using it.
• Global payroll transformation initiatives deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

  What You Will Have

  • Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
  • Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
  • Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
  • Payroll Management: Knowledge of payroll policy and methods; ability to use tools, techniques and processes to manage employee payroll and benefits operations.
  • Change Impact Assessment: Knowledge of tools, techniques, procedures, and advantages of change impact assessment; ability to use this knowledge to understand the impact of a proposed change on stakeholders, processes, structures, and tools of an organization.
  • Human Resources Consulting: Knowledge of HR approaches, tools and techniques; ability to inform, guide and advise managers in HR-related initiatives.
  • Human Resources Operations: Knowledge of human resources (HR) policies, operational processes and considerations; ability to implement HR related tasks, processes, and projects to ensure that day-to-day operations run smoothly.
  • Strong knowledge of payroll accounting, journal entries, reconciliations, controls, and compliance requirements.
  • Experience leading process improvement, automation, or transformation initiatives.
  • Ability to partner effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional teams in a global environment.
  • Working knowledge of Workday HCM, Payroll and FINS strongly desired.

  Additional Information

  • Up to 25% travel.
  • This role is not hybrid and will require 100% on site attendance.

  NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

  Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.

  This position requires working onsite five days a week.

  Posting Dates

  August 19, 2026 - August 29, 2026

  Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply