Payroll Lead (Fixed-term role)

Relativity; Łódź; Remote; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Parental leave

Flexible work arrangements

Company breaks

Long-term incentive program

Training investment program

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a Payroll Lead (EMEA) on a 12-month fixed-term contract to drive payroll transformation across Poland, UK, Germany, and Ireland, while supporting regional operations. You will lead implementations, vendor transitions, legal entity changes, and process improvements from planning through go-live and stabilization, collaborating with HR, Finance, Legal, and external providers.

This role emphasizes project delivery, governance, testing, cutover, and stabilization, with 75%

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in HR, finance, or business.
• Six+ years of progressive payroll experience across multiple countries in the region.
• Demonstrated experience leading payroll transformations and vendor transitions.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional payroll initiatives across EMEA, including vendor transitions and legal entity changes.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery from planning to go-live and stabilization.
• Coordinate vendor implementation activities, data readiness, and cutover activities.
• Maintain project plans, risk registers, and governance documents.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment on outcomes.

Skills

Mult-country payroll delivery

Project management

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Payroll vendor transitions

Change management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent

Tools

Unit4 Teta HR

Deel

Workday

HRIS

Job description

Posting Type

Remote

Job Overview

The Payroll Lead (EMEA) is a 12-month fixed-term contractor role responsible for leading payroll transformation initiatives and strategic payroll projects across Poland, UK, Germany, Ireland, while supporting regional payroll operations. The position manages payroll implementations, legal entity changes, payroll vendor transitions, and process improvement initiatives from planning through go-live and stabilization.

Approximately 75% of the assignment focuses on payroll projects and initiatives. The remaining 25% supports daily payroll operations and partners with Senior Payroll Analysts to help deliver accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing. The role works closely with Payroll, Human Resources, Finance, Legal, Information Technology, Procurement, and external payroll providers.

Job Description And Requirements

What You’ll Do

• Lead regional payroll initiatives across EMEA, including payroll vendor transitions, legal entity changes, payroll implementations, consolidations, system enhancements, and process improvements within Unit4 Teta HR, Deel, and Workday.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, including scope, requirements, process design, project plans, governance, timelines, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Coordinate vendor implementation activities, including data readiness, configuration review, integration dependencies, parallel payroll validation, defect resolution, and production readiness.
• Maintain project plans, milestone tracking, decision logs, risk and issue registers, test evidence, cutover checklists, status reporting, and contingency plans.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and external providers to clarify responsibilities, secure decisions, manage dependencies, and maintain alignment on outcomes.
• Identify delivery, compliance, data, and operational risks; escalate issues appropriately and implement mitigation plans.
• Lead change enablement, including stakeholder communications, operating procedures, knowledge transfer, training materials, and post-implementation reviews.
• Provide payroll operational support and escalation assistance to Senior Payroll Analysts, including payroll reviews, reconciliations, audits, year-end activities, complex transactions, vendor issues, and issue resolution.
• Review payroll controls and procedures, maintain documentation, support service metrics and vendor performance reporting, and recommend improvements that strengthen payroll accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
• Six or more years of progressive payroll experience, including multi-country or regional payroll delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading payroll vendor transitions, payroll implementations, legal entity changes, or comparable payroll transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated project management capability across planning, requirements, testing, risk management, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Working knowledge of payroll operations, controls, and compliance considerations across EMEA.
• Experience working with payroll providers, HR information systems, payroll platforms, time systems, and payroll data interfaces.
• Strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering payroll transformation in a global organization with multiple entities, providers, and stakeholder groups.
• Formal project management, change management, or process improvement training or certification.

Relativity is a diverse workplace with different skills and life experiences—and we love and celebrate those differences. We believe that employees are happiest when they're empowered to be their full, authentic selves, regardless how you identify.

Benefit Highlights

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• Flexible work arrangements
• Two, week-long company breaks per year
• Additional time off
• Long-term incentive program
• Training investment program

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.

Required Skills

Collaboration, Communication, Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Professional Presentation, Project Management, Researching, Teamwork, Time Management, Writing