Payroll Manager

Insight; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight, a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator, seeks a Regional Payroll Manager (EMEA) based in Sheffield, with responsibility for end-to-end payroll operations across 15+ countries for ~3,000 teammates. The role blends strategy, governance, and hands-on leadership in a complex multinational environment.

You will lead cross-country payroll delivery, vendor relationships, and data protection compliance while driving automation and process improvements.

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.
• Experience managing payroll data across multiple jurisdictions.
• Understanding of GDPR and payroll-related data protection requirements.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with enterprise payroll platforms such as ADP, Workday, or similar.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead payroll operations across multiple countries, currencies, legal entities and pay frequencies.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory requirements, tax regulations and social security obligations.
• Manage relationships with payroll vendors, MSPs, and external advisors.
• Drive payroll integrations, harmonisation initiatives and onboarding after acquisitions.
• Partner with HR and Compensation on pay transparency and equity initiatives.
• Ensure GDPR and data protection compliance in payroll processes.
• Support month-end payroll accounting, reporting, reconciliations and controls.
• Lead SOX compliance activities, audits and payroll governance.
• Drive automation and AI-enabled payroll improvements.
• Develop and mentor a diverse regional payroll team.

Skills

Multi-country payroll

Leadership

EMEA payroll knowledge

GDPR awareness

Excel

ADP

Workday

Payroll governance

Data protection

In-country payroll

Automation/AI

Education

CIPP or equivalent

Tools

ADP

Workday

Excel

Job description

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Payroll Manager

Sheffield, GB

Regional Payroll Manager (EMEA)

Location: Sheffield – 3 days a week in office.

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.

What You'll Do

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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.

What We're Looking For

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

• 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.
• 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.

About Insight:

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.

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

A full job description will be provided upon application.

Insight is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and recognizes and values the unique talents and perspectives which individuals with disabilities bring to our workplace and we encourage them to apply. Any information provided regarding changes or adjustments will be kept confidential and used solely for the purpose of ensuring all our candidates can perform at their very best during the recruitment process.