Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll

United States Digital Space LLC; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll to lead payroll operations across the EMEA region from a Dublin or Cork base. This role oversees monthly payroll processing, statutory compliance, and relationship management with external vendors to ensure accurate, timely employee compensation.

You will coach a regional payroll team, drive process standardization, monitor KPIs, support payroll projects, and partner with Finance, HRIS, Legal, and People teams to deliver a

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries.
• Strong international payroll knowledge including taxes, reporting, and compliance.
• Proven experience mentoring direct reports.
• Experience managing external payroll vendors and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of payroll controls, reconciliations, and internal controls.
• Ability to assess risk and implement scalable solutions.
• Knowledge of payroll accounting principles and financial statement impact.
• Experience using payroll KPIs, dashboards, or reporting to drive improvement.
• Strong communication skills with internal teams, advisors, and senior stakeholders.
• Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and able to handle competing priorities.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and changing regional payroll matters.
• Customer-service mindset with focus on employee experience.
• Experience in a public company or SOX-controlled environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly payroll processing and related payments.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a regional payroll team.
• Serve as the regional payroll SME and escalation point for EMEA.
• Manage relationships with external payroll vendors, HRIS, and benefits providers.
• Monitor vendor performance, service delivery, and issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with local payroll tax, reporting, and employment regulations.
• Maintain controls, reconciliations, and documentation for audits.
• Partner with Finance to support payroll accounting and journal entries.
• Support payroll projects including standardization and country implementations.
• Monitor KPIs, metrics, service levels, risks, and process improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement for accuracy, compliance, and scalability.
• Support expansion into additional EMEA countries as the business grows.

Skills

EMEA Payroll leadership

International payroll

Mentoring direct reports

Vendor management

Payroll controls & audits

Risk assessment

Payroll accounting

KPIs & dashboards

Communication skills

Analytical mindset

Adaptability

Customer service focus

SOX/compliance

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

About the company

the company is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. the company’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, the company Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on the company for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at the company is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us the company.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at the company, and help us make an impact on the world!

the company is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

the company is an equal opportunities employer.