Are you an experienced payroll professional with exceptional leadership capability? Do you have over 10 years experience working within a busy payroll function, ideally in a multinational business? Would you like to work for a leading business with a fantastic remuneration package? For more information please contact Alex on Responsibilities Lead and oversee payroll operations across the UK and Ireland, ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of all payrolls. Deliver a high-quality, customer-focused, and cost-efficient service to the wider business, aligned with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Ensure full compliance with all relevant legislation, regulatory, and reporting requirements. Maintain a deep understanding of payroll procedures and integrated business processes, acting as a subject matter expert across the organisation. Develop and maintain robust process controls, ensuring effective governance and minimising risks of delay or error. Implement and monitor control reporting frameworks to ensure compliance and accuracy across all payroll processes. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, simplifying, standardising, and optimising processes across all business units to enhance quality and productivity. Drive problem resolution and data integrity, maintaining high standards of housekeeping, accurate data archiving, and employee master data accuracy. Ensure successful delivery of improvement and transition initiatives, tracking progress and ensuring all deliverables are met and signed off. Build and sustain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including HR, Finance, and external vendors, to ensure accurate and timely payments. Lead and develop the Payroll team, setting clear objectives, providing coaching and guidance, and supporting professional development. Prioritise and allocate workloads to maintain consistent service quality and operational continuity during absences and peak periods. Partner with HR and Finance leaders to support payroll integrations and system transitions. Support internal and external audits, ensuring documentation accuracy and transparency. Manage payroll budgets, maintaining cost control and providing regular progress and variance reporting to agreed timelines. Essential 10 years' experience in payroll management, ideally within a multinational organisation. Proven leadership experience, including managing managers and cross-functional teams. Strong knowledge of payroll compliance and statutory reporting requirements. Highly detail-oriented with exceptional accuracy and analytical skills. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Demonstrated ability to identify issues, resolve problems, and drive process improvements. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and decision-making skills. Experience maintaining and managing high volumes of payroll data with precision. Hands-on experience with payroll software and systems. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, or a related discipline. Ideally CIPP qualified Ideally project management qualification Skills: Head of Payroll Payroll Manager Payroll Director