# Payroll Partner, EMEA

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: UK - London; DE - Munich; ES - Barcelona; FR - Paris; NL - Amsterdam
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## About the Role

As a Payroll Partner, EMEA, you will focus on EMEA payroll while contributing to selected global projects and helping shape longer-term payroll capabilities.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own accurate, efficient EMEA payroll operations, including payroll processing, region-specific securities regulations and employment tax requirements, reconciliations, and month-end and year-end close procedures.

- Provide strategic direction across payroll operations, service delivery, control frameworks, advisory, cost reduction, and system improvements.

- Lead payroll implementations and improvements, including the rollout of a unified global payroll solution for each entity and the optimisation of system integrations, workflows, and data automation.

- Analyse global payroll data and provide insights that help Finance and HR understand employee-cost trends and improve forecasting, while supporting global payroll projects where needed.

- Partner with Legal and HR on new entity setup and Employment of Record services as part of Airwallex’s international expansion, and support the evolution of payroll systems and tools.

- Advise employees and stakeholders on pay issues, award changes, new policies, and payroll enquiries, resolving queries raised through JIRA and Slack professionally.

- Build a practical payroll knowledge repository, including process documentation, FAQs, and response templates, while driving improvements that strengthen efficiency, accuracy, and the employee experience.

## Requirements

### Essentials

- At least 5 years’ regional experience managing end-to-end payroll processing, with strong EMEA payroll exposure.

- Experience providing strategic direction across payroll operations, service delivery, controls, advisory, system improvements, and stakeholder management.

- Experience leading or contributing to payroll implementation, HRIS/payroll integration, system optimisation, or workflow automation projects.

- Strong understanding of payroll compliance, employment tax requirements, reconciliations, and month-end and year-end close procedures.

- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve payroll discrepancies and issues with accuracy and sound judgement.

- Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to analyse payroll data and produce meaningful reports for Finance and HR.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

- Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team in a high-growth environment.

- Careful handling of confidential and sensitive information.

- Familiarity with payroll vendor management and payroll-related HRIS integrations.

### Preferred

- A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.

- Experience with private equity, RSU, ESOP schemes, and related reporting requirements.

- Experience supporting entity setup and Employment of Record services.

- Experience leading a team or coordinating work across payroll operations and implementation projects.

- Experience working with JIRA, Slack, or similar tools to manage employee and stakeholder queries.

## Team and Culture

Finance & Corporate Development helps Airwallex grow with control. We’re a trusted partner to the business, providing actionable insights on performance, supporting market and product expansion and helping to shape the future of our product.

## Skills

### Required
- payroll processing
- strategic direction
- payroll implementation
- HRIS/payroll integration
- system optimisation
- workflow automation
- payroll compliance
- employment tax requirements
- reconciliations
- month-end and year-end close procedures
- analytical and numerical skills
- communication and interpersonal skills
- organisational and time-management skills
- confidential and sensitive information handling
- payroll vendor management
- payroll-related HRIS integrations

### Nice to have
- private equity
- RSU
- ESOP schemes
- entity setup
- Employment of Record services
- team leadership
- JIRA
- Slack

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