Payroll Consultant

EMEA Payroll Consultant - Seeking an immediate or short notice candidate with EMEA Payroll experience for a 6momths FTC.

EMEA Payroll Consultant

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• Location: Multiple locations across EMEA
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• Job Type: Contract full time - 6 mths FTC ( Hybrid 1-2 days from home)
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We are seeking an EMEA Payroll Consultant to support accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This role is crucial for managing complex multi-country payroll activities, ensuring statutory compliance, and driving process improvements. The ideal candidate will collaborate with internal HR, Finance, Tax, Benefits teams, and external payroll providers.

Day-to-day of the role:

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• Manage and support end-to-end payroll processing for assigned EMEA countries, ensuring accuracy and adherence to schedules.
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• Review, validate, and reconcile payroll inputs and outputs, including salary changes, bonuses, allowances, deductions, and statutory payments.
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• Ensure compliance with country-specific tax, social security, labor law, data privacy, and internal control requirements.
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• Coordinate payroll calendars, resolve exceptions, and confirm funding and payment approvals with local payroll providers and internal stakeholders.
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• Prepare and review payroll reports, journal entries, variance analysis, and gross-to-net reconciliations.
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• Support year-end activities, statutory filings, audit requests, and maintain documentation across assigned countries.
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• Respond to payroll inquiries, investigate discrepancies, and provide resolutions.
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• Maintain accurate payroll documentation, standard operating procedures, and process controls.
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• Identify and implement opportunities to improve payroll processes, increase automation, and enhance the employee payroll experience.
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Required Skills & Qualifications:

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• Proven experience in multi-country payroll operations, preferably across EMEA.
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• Strong understanding of payroll compliance, statutory deductions, tax, social security, labor regulations, and data privacy requirements.
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• Experience with third-party payroll providers and cross-functional teams such as HR, Finance, Tax, and Benefits.
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• Proficient in complex payroll calculations, reconciliations, variance analysis, and resolving discrepancies.
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• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with payroll data, reporting, and HR/payroll systems.
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• Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage deadlines across multiple countries and payroll calendars.
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• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain payroll issues clearly to employees, vendors, and business partners.
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Preferred Qualifications:

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• Experience with global payroll platforms or HR systems such as Deel, IRIS, Fesco, Danlon, UKG.
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• Experience supporting payroll audits, SOX controls, GDPR requirements, or other internal control frameworks.
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• Knowledge of payroll accounting, journal entries, funding processes, and general ledger reconciliation.
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• Experience in payroll transformation, vendor transition, system implementation, or process improvement projects.
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• Additional language skills such as Mandarin relevant to the EMEA region are a plus.
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Benefits:

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• Competitive salary
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• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
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• Dynamic and culturally diverse working environment.
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To apply for the EMEA Payroll Consultant position, please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this role to Vinny at the Reed Staines office