Global Payroll Manager

Enrich & Enlight is hiring an experienced Global Payroll Manager EMEA for one of our leading IT/BPS clients.

Hiring Global Payroll Manager | EMEA Payroll

• Location: Chennai (Work from Office 5 Days)
• Experience: 10+ Years
• Industry: ITES / BPO / BPM / HR Outsourcing
• Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Job Summary

We are looking for a payroll professional with strong expertise in multi-country EMEA payroll operations, Workday Payroll Integrations (PECI, PICOF, Connector), ServiceNow, payroll compliance, vendor management, and payroll implementation.

The candidate will be responsible for managing end-to-end payroll delivery, ensuring statutory compliance, payroll accuracy, operational excellence and effective stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end monthly payroll processing across multiple EMEA countries, ensuring accuracy, timely delivery and statutory compliance.
• Manage payroll governance, tax regulations, social security, pension contributions, GDPR requirements and audit controls.
• Handle Workday payroll integrations, including Workday Connector, PECI and PICOF, ensuring accurate data flow and validation.
• Manage payroll queries, incidents, case management and SLA performance through ServiceNow (SNOW).
• Oversee external payroll vendors, ensuring service quality, compliance and timely payroll processing.
• Manage payroll reconciliations, gross-to-net calculations, GL postings, payment files and pre/post-payroll controls.
• Partner with HR, Finance, Compliance and international stakeholders for payroll delivery and issue resolution.
• Lead payroll transitions, implementations, new-country go-lives, parallel testing, knowledge transfer (KT) and due diligence (DD).
• Drive payroll transformation, process automation, reporting, analytics and continuous improvement.
• Develop payroll dashboards and reports to monitor accuracy, exceptions, variances and operational performance.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in Global Payroll / Multi-Country Payroll Operations.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience managing EMEA payroll.
• Hands-on experience with Workday Payroll Integrations Connector, PECI and PICOF.
• Experience using ServiceNow (SNOW) for payroll case management.
• Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll statutory compliance, taxation, social security, pensions and GDPR.
• Experience managing payroll vendors, global stakeholders and client relationships.
• Exposure to payroll implementation, transitions, testing and process transformation.
• Strong experience in payroll reconciliation, controls, audit and reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH and Power Query.
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Payroll implementation and country go-live experience.
• Workday HCM and Payroll integration expertise.
• Power BI / Tableau reporting.
• GL mapping and finance coordination.
• Project management, change management and process improvement.
• Payroll certifications such as CIPP / APA.

• Education
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Finance, Business or related discipline.
• Work Arrangement
• Chennai Work from Office (5 Days a Week)
• Candidates must be comfortable working onsite.

• Apply Now
• Interested candidates with relevant Global Payroll and EMEA payroll experience can apply with their updated CVs @
• 8766291576

• Pranavi
• Enrich & Enlight | Passion to Provide Talent
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