Enrich & Enlight is hiring an experienced Global Payroll Manager EMEA for one of our leading IT/BPS clients.

Hiring Global Payroll Manager | EMEA Payroll

Location: Chennai (Work from Office 5 Days)

Experience: 10+ Years

Industry: ITES / BPO / BPM / HR Outsourcing

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Job Summary

We are looking for a payroll skilled with strong expertise in multi-country EMEA payroll operations, Workday Payroll Integrations (PECI, PICOF, Connector), ServiceNow, payroll compliance, vendor management, and payroll implementation.

The candidate will be responsible for managing end-to-end payroll delivery, ensuring statutory compliance, payroll accuracy, operational excellence and effective stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end monthly payroll processing across multiple EMEA countries, ensuring accuracy, timely delivery and statutory compliance.
- Manage payroll governance, tax regulations, social security, pension contributions, GDPR requirements and audit controls.
- Handle Workday payroll integrations, including Workday Connector, PECI and PICOF, ensuring accurate data flow and validation.
- Manage payroll queries, incidents, case management and SLA performance through ServiceNow (SNOW).
- Oversee external payroll vendors, ensuring service quality, compliance and timely payroll processing.
- Manage payroll reconciliations, gross-to-net calculations, GL postings, payment files and pre/post-payroll controls.
- Partner with HR, Finance, Compliance and international stakeholders for payroll delivery and issue resolution.
- Lead payroll transitions, implementations, new-country go-lives, parallel testing, knowledge transfer (KT) and due diligence (DD).
- Drive payroll transformation,



process automation, reporting, analytics and continuous improvement.
- Develop payroll dashboards and reports to monitor accuracy, exceptions, variances and operational performance.

Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in Global Payroll / Multi-Country Payroll Operations.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience managing EMEA payroll.
- Hands-on experience with Workday Payroll Integrations Connector, PECI and PICOF.
- Experience using ServiceNow (SNOW) for payroll case management.
- Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll statutory compliance, taxation, social security, pensions and GDPR.
- Experience managing payroll vendors, global stakeholders and client relationships.
- Exposure to payroll implementation, transitions, testing and process transformation.
- Strong experience in payroll reconciliation, controls, audit and reporting.
- Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH and Power Query.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills
- Payroll implementation and country go-live experience.
- Workday HCM and Payroll integration expertise.
- Power BI / Tableau reporting.
- GL mapping and finance coordination.
- Project management, change management and process improvement.
- Payroll certifications such as CIPP / APA.

Education Bachelor's degree in HR, Finance, Business or related discipline.

Work Arrangement

Chennai Work from Office (5 Days a Week)

Candidates must be comfortable working onsite.

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Interested candidates with relevant Global Payroll and EMEA payroll experience can apply with their updated CVs @

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Pranavi

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📌 Global Payroll Manager (Chennai)
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