Payroll Project Lead (12 Month FTC)

Wise

📍 London, GB On-Site 💰 £59,000 - £74,000/yr ⏳ 1d ago
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Job Description

We’re currently hiring for a Payroll Project Lead (12 month FTC) to join our global payroll team based in our London Office.

We’re looking for a Payroll Specialist who lives our values, will help grow our culture, and drive our mission forward! 🚀

Your mission:

This exciting role will join the payroll team and be responsible for growth and expansion into existing and new markets. You’ll attend internal and external calls, understand the payroll requirements to set up in the country and work with internal teams to support the implementation.

This role will include partnering with our third-party payroll vendor and their advisors to understand each country's unique requirements.

The specifics:

  • Lead end to end payroll projects supporting growth and expansion

  • Develop and manage project plans and timelines, capture risks

  • Partner with internal teams to ensure alignment in the projects

  • Assess payroll readiness for new markets

  • Manage external vendors

  • Lead build, testing and sign off for go live readiness

  • Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies and ensure stakeholders are updated

  • Support post implementation hyper care period

Your challenges:

  • We’re evolving our payroll model - you’ll have the chance to bring your brainpower and prior experience to help us build an outstanding payroll team as we continue to grow and scale
  • You’ll assist to create efficiencies in our current ways of working and help us develop new ways of payroll processing