Payroll Manager

Insight; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight is seeking a Regional Payroll Manager to oversee end-to-end payroll operations across EMEA, ensuring compliance and governance while driving efficiency. You will collaborate with HR, Finance, Legal, vendors, and our Global Payroll team to deliver accurate payroll services for 15+ countries and 3,000 teammates.

The role demands significant experience in multi-country payroll, leadership of payroll teams, and strong knowledge of GDPR, tax, and social security.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing complex, multi-country payroll operations.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing payroll teams.
• Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll legislation, tax, social security, pensions, and statutory benefits.
• Advanced Excel and enterprise payroll platforms experience (ADP, Workday).
• Proactive with automation and AI to improve processes.
• Degree-level education or professional qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead payroll operations across multiple countries, currencies, legal entities.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory requirements and GDPR.
• Manage payroll vendors and external advisors.
• Partner with HR and Finance on pay transparency and equity.
• Support month-end payroll reporting and governance.
• Drive automation and process improvements.

Skills

Payroll leadership

EMEA payroll knowledge

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

ADP/Workday experience

Advanced Excel

GDPR compliance

Automation/AI mindset

Education

Degree-level education

CIPP or equivalent

Tools

ADP

Workday

Payroll platforms

Job description

As Regional Payroll Manager, you'll be responsible for the end-to-end management of payroll operations across EMEA, ensuring seamless service delivery while maintaining the highest levels of compliance and governance. You'll work closely with HR, Finance, Legal, external providers, and our Global Payroll team to drive payroll excellence across the region.,

• Leading payroll operations across multiple countries, currencies, legal entities and pay frequencies.
• Ensuring compliance with local statutory requirements, tax regulations, social security obligations, pensions, and employee benefits.
• Managing relationships with payroll vendors, managed service providers, and external advisors.
• Driving payroll integrations, harmonisation initiatives, and onboarding activities following acquisitions.
• Partnering with HR and Compensation teams on pay transparency and pay equity initiatives.
• Ensuring compliance with GDPR and regional data protection requirements.
• Supporting month-end accounting, payroll reporting, reconciliations, and financial controls.
• Leading SOX compliance activities, audits, and payroll governance processes.
• Driving automation and AI-enabled process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Developing and mentoring a diverse regional payroll team.

We're seeking a highly motivated payroll leader who combines strong technical expertise with exceptional stakeholder management and leadership skills.

Essential

• Significant experience managing complex, multi-country payroll operations.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing payroll teams.
• Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll legislation, tax, social security, pensions, and statutory benefits.
• Experience managing payroll data across multiple jurisdictions.
• Understanding of GDPR and payroll-related data protection requirements.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with enterprise payroll platforms such as ADP, Workday, or similar.
• A proactive mindset with an interest in leveraging automation and AI tools to improve processes.
• Degree-level education, professional qualification, or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• Professional payroll qualification (CIPP or equivalent).
• Experience managing payroll through in-country and managed payroll providers.
• Understanding of the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
• Experience supporting payroll transformation, system migrations, or process standardisation projects.
• Experience implementing payroll automation and reporting enhancements.

If you're ready to take the next step in your payroll leadership career and make a meaningful impact across a dynamic international business, we'd love to hear from you.

At Insight, we're a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator helping organisations accelerate transformation by unlocking the power of people and technology. We combine deep expertise in cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, and intelligent edge solutions to deliver extraordinary results for our clients worldwide.

We're looking for an experienced Regional Payroll Manager (EMEA) to lead and oversee payroll operations across more than 15 countries, supporting approximately 3,000 teammates throughout the region. This is a strategic leadership opportunity for a payroll professional who thrives in a complex, multinational environment and is passionate about delivering accuracy, compliance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement., We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there's a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years. We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.