Payroll Manager

Natoora; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday day off after 6 months

Discount on Natoora produce

Daily lunch with seasonal produce

Job summary

Natoora, a leader in seasonal produce, seeks a Payroll Manager to own end-to-end payroll for UK, France, Italy, Denmark and the US. You will coordinate across local providers or PEOs, ensuring accurate, on-time payroll and strong compliance.

Reporting to the Global Financial Controller, you’ll work with regional finance teams and HR, delivering accurate costs and payroll forecasts while supporting a growing global operation.

Qualifications

• Proven payroll management experience across multiple countries.
• Strong knowledge of UK PAYE, NIC, pensions auto-enrolment.
• High attention to detail with a strong compliance mindset.
• Natural problem solver, able to improve processes.
• Highly proficient in Excel.
• Experience with Sage Payroll and Sage HR.
• CIPP qualification or equivalent advantageous.
• Additional language skills welcome given international scope.
• Genuine interest in Natoora's mission.

Responsibilities

• Own the payroll cycle across all entities with central coordination.
• Ensure compliance with local payroll, tax and employment laws.
• Support payroll forecasting and month-end close; reconcile with GL.
• Be the main payroll contact for employees, regional finance, and HR.

Skills

Payroll management

UK payroll legislation

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Excel

Sage Payroll

Sage HR

CIPP qualification

Languages

Stakeholder management

Job description

Natoora has spent two decades reshaping how chefs think about fresh produce — championing seasonality, varietal diversity, and building direct relationships with a vast network of growers. We now operate across five countries. The infrastructure behind that growth needs to be as strong as the supply chain we've spent twenty years building.

We are looking for a Payroll Manager to own end-to-end payroll delivery across our UK, French, Italian, Danish, and US entities. This is a hands‑on role for an experienced payroll professional who enjoys the challenge of running multi‑country payroll for a fast‑growing business — someone who takes pride in getting the detail right while being a trusted point of contact for the people they support.

You will report into the Global Financial Controller and work closely with regional finance teams, local payroll partners, and the People team across our global operations.

Responsibilities

Own the payroll cycle

Manage end-to-end payroll delivery across all entities — starters, leavers, variable pay, statutory payments, and pension contributions. Our French, Italian, and Danish entities are supported by local payroll providers; the US operates through a PEO. You will be the central point of coordination across all of them, ensuring each country runs accurately and on time.

Ensure compliance and controls

Maintain compliance with local payroll, tax, and employment law across all operating jurisdictions, working alongside local payroll partners. File statutory year‑end returns in coordination with local advisors. Design and maintain payroll controls across each entity.

Support the wider finance function

Reconcile payroll against the general ledger and ensure a clean month‑end close handoff. Support the reporting and forecasting of payroll expenditure for each entity. Act as the main point of contact for payroll queries from employees, regional finance teams, and HR.

About you

• Proven payroll management experience, ideally spanning multiple countries
• Strong working knowledge of UK payroll legislation — PAYE, NIC, statutory payments, and pensions auto‑enrolment
• High attention to detail and a strong compliance mindset, balanced by a personable approach — you take the detail seriously without losing sight of the person behind the query
• A natural problem solver, whether that's resolving an individual payroll question or improving a process
• Highly proficient in Excel
• Experience with Sage Payroll and Sage HR is beneficial
• CIPP qualification or equivalent is advantageous
• Additional language skills are a welcome bonus given the international scope of the role
• A genuine interest in Natoora's mission and what we're building globally
• Daily lunch made with the same seasonal produce we supply to chefs
• Natoora produce at a significant discount
• Your birthday off, once you've hit the six‑month mark
• A kitchen stocked from our own growers and producers — including Estate Dairy milk and butter, jam from England Preserves, and coffee from our Spa Terminus neighbours, Monmouth

Salary range: £58K - £63K annually

Our vision for a better food system is built on real human relationships and a diversity of experience, perspective and ideas. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio‑economic background, religion and/or belief.