Regional Payroll Lead
Uplift People Consulting, Turkey

Our client is a global shipping company. We are looking for an experienced Regional Payroll Lead.

The purpose of the role is to support the regional payroll organization, working with a matrixed group of stakeholders and vendors to ensure great employee experience and regulatory compliance from a payroll delivery perspective. This role reports to the Europe Regional Head of Payroll, Time amp; Attendance. This role is responsible for the countries that scope Turkey, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, Lebonan, Ukraine, and Georgia.

They work in a hybrid work setup.

Requirements

Job Requirements

• Manage a team of payroll specialists (4 at the moment)
• Lead a team of ‘Payroll specialists’ and administrators to translate the regional goals and service delivery - deliver high quality and on-time outputs in relation to Payroll, Time and Attendance in order to enable a great employee experience
• Manage the payroll delivery to exact global standards and business specific needs
• Translate the governance structure by defining and executing the right payroll metrics at the country and legal entity level
• Implement the agreed model to identify, report, mitigate and track risks in the payroll delivery process
• Act as the anchor point for managing 'Audits’ both internal amp; external
• Manage the timely submission of RICC controls
• Monitor performance metrics and identify patterns. In case of underperformance, help fix the issue by working with the respective payroll specialist
• Bring to the fore any improvement initiatives for global consideration and vindication
• Act as a sparring partner to people advisors and reward delivery teams

Candidate Requirements

• Similar experience in managing a team of payroll specialists preferably in an international organization
• Deep understanding of legal payroll requirements and personal administration processes in the region. (Multi-country experience is good to have
• Fluency in English is required
• Actively discuss and implement risk mitigation strategies, experience in Risk amp; Compliance, payroll related Accounting knowledge
• Be a natural leader and passionate about driving team engagement and change
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and a natural trustworthy presence toward business leaders and stakeholders
• External Vendor management skills and ability to govern payroll processes by metrics
• A process and continuous improvement mindset who takes pride in delivering high-quality and efficient payroll services
• Collaborative work style, fostering cooperation and teamwork to achieve results
• Customer-centric putting employee experience at the center
• Workday experience is preferred
• Low tolerance for delays and deviations

Benefits

• Our client is going through an industry-defining transformation: They want to innovate global trade by simplifying their customer’s supply chains. With simple end-to-end solutions, digital services and seamless customer engagement, they want to enable our customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere.
  
• Diversity and inclusion is a core part of their people strategy. They value the diversity of their talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job.
• They offer exciting career opportunities in a truly international working environment.

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