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Objective

As a Senior Payroll Manager, you are responsible for ensuring the accurate, timely, and compliant delivery of payroll and employee rewards processes. You oversee end-to-end payroll activities, including salaries, bonuses, and deductions, while ensuring that rewards programs are administered in line with applicable regulations and internal policies.

In this role, you lead the team, setting direction and aligning priorities with organizational objectives. You drive operational excellence by resolving complex issues, optimizing processes, and leveraging data and reporting to support decision-making and improve outcomes.

You define and drive the payroll and rewards operational strategy, ensuring scalability, standardization, and alignment with organizational priorities.

You manage resources effectively and make independent decisions that significantly impact processes, costs, and performance. Through strong leadership and analytical thinking,



you address complex challenges and implement improvements that enhance the effectiveness of payroll and rewards operations.

Main responsibilities

Payroll operations

- Oversee end-to-end payroll processing to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
- Ensure full compliance with country-specific labor laws, tax legislation, social security rules, and corporate policies
- Establish and maintain governance frameworks, internal controls, and audit readiness at organizational level
- Lead prompt resolution of discrepancies, employee queries and system errors
- Initiate improvements that strengthen accuracy, standardization and automation
- Manage sensitive personal and financial data in alignment with GDPR and global data privacy standards
- Ensure timely and transparent communication regarding payroll matters
- Ensure compliance with general mobility policies and tax regulations
- Own and drive the payroll operating model across multiple entities/regions
- Ensure alignment of payroll strategy with business and HR transformation initiatives

Stakeholder management

- Collaborate with HR, Finance, Rewards, Legal, and external vendors
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and key business stakeholders
- Influence decisions related to payroll operations, service delivery,



and process improvement initiatives
- Ensure proactive, transparent communication and alignment across all stakeholder groups
- Monitor SLA performance, quality of service, escalations, maintain high service quality

People management

- Lead the team through direct and/or indirect reporting lines
- Promote continuous learning around legislation, systems, and process improvements
- Set clear direction, priorities, and performance expectations aligned with organizational goals
- Drive KPI definition and performance governance across teams

Specific requirements

- Strong payroll domain expertise and understanding of regulatory requirements:
- minimum 5-7 years of experience in HR areas (e.g. payroll, personnel administration, labor code)
- minimum 4–5 years of leadership experience, preferably in a payroll or HR operations environment

- Strong understanding of payroll systems, automation, and digital transformation opportunities
- Able to work independently with self-confidence and build trust and strong relationships with peers and major stakeholders
- Experience managing and developing teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to manage complex, and ambiguous challenges
- High level of resilience and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-impact environment
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Strong governance, risk management and compliance mindset
- Experience implementing CI initiatives, and process improvements
- Automation-driven and digital mindset
- Ability to adapt to change and lead others through tran

📌 Senior Payroll Manager (Bellprat)
🏢 Schneider Electric
📍 Bellprat