JOB DESCRIPTION
We are seeking an experienced Payroll Transition Lead to support payroll transition activities across Belgium and the Netherlands. This individual will lead country-specific payroll workstreams and partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, HRIS, vendors, and local stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition to the future-state payroll model.
The ideal candidate has strong Belgium and Netherlands payroll operations experience, hands-on involvement in payroll implementations or transitions, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, timelines, and country-specific requirements. This individual must have qualified working proficiency in French or Dutch and be able to understand country-specific payroll terminology. Complete reading and writing fluency is not required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead payroll transition activities across planning, execution, testing, go-live, and stabilization phases.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Payroll, HR, Finance, HRIS, IT, vendors, and in-country stakeholders.
- Drive country transition plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies,



and action items.
- Gather payroll requirements and document current and future-state processes.
- Coordinate payroll data validation, migration, and readiness activities, including employee master data, pay elements, historical data, and cutover requirements.
- Partner with internal teams and vendors to resolve data, integration, and process issues.
- Support testing, payroll parallel runs, reconciliations, and go-live readiness efforts.
- Monitor project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating as needed.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings and ensure accountability for deliverables.
- Support post-go-live stabilization and continuous process improvement.
- Participate in knowledge transfer, shadowing, and training with existing payroll resources.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 3+ years of payroll experience, including payroll operations and payroll implementation, transition,

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