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Director Europe Payroll

FIS

FIS

Accounting & Finance
Posted on Feb 2, 2025

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor's Degree

Travel Percentage :

1 - 5%

As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you: Are you FIS?

About the role:
As a Europe Payroll Director,

  • You will have payroll responsibility for 20+ countries and 45+ payrolls on a monthly basis, ensuring the computing, withholding of deductions associated with net pay is calculated properly. Responsibilities also include managing the payroll related issues for M&A activity as it occurs, implementing new legal entities payrolls, payroll lead for ad hoc HR projects

About the team:
Be a part of a team of Payroll professionals…

  • Five regional payroll managers will report to you, along with about fifteen payroll analysts indirectly reporting spread across eight countries. Each team has specific countries with full responsibility for their locations.
  • This position is one of six reporting directly into the Sr Director of Global Payroll in Jacksonville FL, with a total global payroll team of about sixty people, all part of The People Office.

What you will be doing:

  • Approving various payrolls as needed, along with tax payments, vendor invoice cost allocation and approvals, and various money movements.
  • Managing employee career development, workplace issues, reviews, training, etc
  • Working with business line or HR peers to incorporate changes in bonus structres, allowances, benefits, etc. into payroll structures depending on country or company.
  • Work with the Payroll teams, Legal, HR, Benefits, Mobility and external providers to ensure compliance
  • Oversee internal and external audits, Pension risk committee member for UK

What you will need:

  • Superior UK payroll legislative knowledge and European payroll experience
  • Strong management skills: management of the multinational European payroll team – 121s, performance, development, goal setting, ensure back-ups
  • Payroll product implementation experience
  • Used to and thrive on working in a fast-paced M&A environment

Added bonus if you have:

  • ADP Streamline experience
  • Experience with Workday HCM and Workday UK Payroll

What we offer you:
At FIS, you can learn, grow and make an impact in your career. Our benefits include:

  • Flexible and creative work environment
  • Diverse and collaborative atmosphere
  • Professional and personal development resources
  • Opportunities to volunteer and support charities
  • Competitive salary and benefits

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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