Manager, Payroll Operations

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JobgetherPayroll Operations
IrelandFull-TimeManager
SalaryCompetitive location-based compensation designed to remain above local market rates.
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Job Details

Languages
Fluency in English
Required Skills
ComplianceZendeskProcess improvement

Requirements

  • Proven experience owning payroll outcomes for a team within a regional or multi-country environment.
  • Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and team development.
  • Strong experience investigating payroll issues and driving operational resolutions within defined authority.
  • Ability to interpret, communicate, and consistently apply payroll policies, controls, and processes.
  • Experience contributing to hiring decisions, organizational changes, and performance-related actions.
  • Strong operational judgment, with the ability to balance accuracy, compliance, speed, and customer impact.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly in asynchronous and globally distributed environments.
  • Experience working with external payroll vendors and managing operational relationships.
  • Experience supporting payroll implementations, country launches, vendor transitions, or payroll transformation initiatives.
  • Fluency in English.
  • Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and organizational skills, with a high degree of ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of payroll specialists, creating a high-accountability and supportive environment focused on performance, growth, and continuous improvement.
  • Own payroll outcomes across an assigned portfolio of countries, ensuring accurate, timely, consistent, and compliant delivery.
  • Investigate complex or escalated payroll issues, identify root causes, drive resolution, and communicate risks or delays proactively.
  • Manage relationships with external payroll vendors and ensure services meet operational, compliance, and quality expectations.
  • Support global payroll implementations, including new country launches, vendor transitions, and initiatives to bring payroll operations in-house.
  • Identify recurring issues, operational risks, and process gaps, and lead improvements that reduce errors, increase efficiency, and expand team capacity.
  • Partner with People Operations, Finance, Legal, Product, and Service Operations to translate payroll complexity into actionable guidance.
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