Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll

MongoDB; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB seeks an experienced Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll to lead payroll operations across multiple countries with hybrid work in Dublin or Cork. You will mentor a regional team, partner with Finance and HRIS, and ensure accurate, timely payroll delivery with strong controls.

The role requires deep knowledge of international payroll, compliance, and process improvements, with a focus on a scalable, employee-centric payroll operation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing end-to-end payroll across multiple EMEA countries.
• Strong international payroll knowledge, including taxes, statutory reporting, benefits, timekeeping, accruals, and equity compensation.
• Proven experience mentoring direct reports.
• Experience managing external payroll vendors and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of payroll controls, audits, reconciliations, and internal control concepts.
• Ability to assess risk and implement scalable solutions.
• Solid understanding of payroll accounting principles and impact on financial statements.
• Experience using payroll KPIs, metrics, dashboards, or reporting to manage performance and drive improvement.
• Strong communication skills with internal teams, external advisors, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Highly analytical, accurate, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, changing priorities, and complex regional payroll matters.
• Strong customer-service mindset with a commitment to delivering a positive employee experience.
• Experience operating in a public company or SOX-controlled environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly payroll processing including base pay, variable compensation, equity compensation, statutory benefits, supplemental benefits, payroll taxes, deductions, and related payments.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a regional payroll team, including workload, performance, priorities, and development needs.
• Serve as the regional payroll subject matter expert and primary escalation point for payroll-related matters across EMEA.
• Manage relationships with external payroll vendors, HRIS partners, benefits providers, stock administration, Finance, Accounting, People teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Monitor vendor performance, service delivery, issue resolution, and escalation management to ensure payroll obligations are met.
• Ensure payroll processes are compliant with local payroll tax, employment tax, statutory reporting, withholding, benefits, and employment regulations in each country of operation.
• Maintain a strong understanding of in-region benefits legislation and payroll implications of statutory and supplemental benefit programs.
• Ensure robust operating procedures, controls, reconciliations, approvals, and documentation are in place to support internal controls, audit requirements, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Finance and Accounting to support payroll accounting, accruals, journal entries, reconciliations, and resolution of payroll-related financial statement impacts.
• Support payroll projects, including process standardization, payroll transformation, vendor transitions, country implementations, system enhancements, and control improvements.
• Monitor and report on payroll KPIs, metrics, service levels, operational risks, and process improvement opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement across payroll operations with a focus on accuracy, compliance, scalability, employee experience, and operational efficiency.
• Support expansion into additional EMEA countries as the business grows.

Skills

End-to-end payroll

EMEA payroll knowledge

Mentoring & development

External vendor management

Payroll controls & compliance

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder communication

Job description

The Global Payroll team is seeking an experienced, self‑motivated, and systems‑savvy Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll to lead payroll operations across the EMEA region. This role will be responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery across multiple countries, while leading a regional payroll team, managing external vendor relationships, strengthening controls, and driving process standardization.

The Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll will partner closely with People, Benefits, Equity, Finance, Accounting, HRIS, Legal, and external payroll providers to support a high‑quality employee experience and scalable payroll operations.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin or Cork for our hybrid working model.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries, including but not limited to Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly payroll processing, including base pay, variable compensation, equity compensation, statutory benefits, supplemental benefits, payroll taxes, deductions, and related payments
• Manage, mentor, and develop a regional payroll team, including oversight of workload, performance, priorities, and development needs
• Serve as the regional payroll subject matter expert and primary escalation point for payroll‑related matters across EMEA
• Manage relationships with external payroll vendors, HRIS partners, benefits providers, stock administration, Finance, Accounting, People teams, and other cross‑functional stakeholders
• Monitor vendor performance, service delivery, issue resolution, and escalation management to ensure payroll obligations are met
• Ensure payroll processes are compliant with local payroll tax, employment tax, statutory reporting, withholding, benefits, and employment regulations in each country of operation
• Maintain a strong understanding of in‑region benefits legislation and the payroll implications of statutory and supplemental benefit programs
• Ensure robust operating procedures, controls, reconciliations, approvals, and documentation are in place to support internal controls, audit requirements, and regulatory compliance
• Partner with Finance and Accounting to support payroll accounting, accruals, journal entries, reconciliations, and resolution of payroll‑related financial statement impacts
• Support payroll projects, including process standardization, payroll transformation, vendor transitions, country implementations, system enhancements, and control improvements
• Monitor and report on payroll KPIs, metrics, service levels, operational risks, and process improvement opportunities
• Drive continuous improvement across payroll operations with a focus on accuracy, compliance, scalability, employee experience, and operational efficiency
• Support expansion into additional EMEA countries as the business grows

Minimum Qualifications

• Significant experience managing end‑to‑end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries
• Strong international payroll knowledge, including payroll processing, payroll taxes, statutory reporting, benefits, timekeeping, accruals, equity compensation, and local payroll compliance requirements
• Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing direct reports
• Experience managing external payroll vendors and cross‑functional stakeholder relationships
• Strong understanding of payroll controls, audit requirements, reconciliations, and internal control concepts
• Ability to assess risk, identify control gaps, and implement practical, scalable solutions
• Solid understanding of payroll accounting principles and the impact of payroll activity on financial statements
• Experience using payroll KPIs, metrics, dashboards, or reporting to manage performance and drive improvement
• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with internal teams, external advisors, vendors, and senior stakeholders
• Highly analytical, accurate, detail‑oriented, and able to manage competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, changing priorities, and complex regional payroll matters
• Strong customer‑service mindset with a commitment to delivering a positive employee experience
• Experience operating in a public company or SOX‑controlled environment