Payroll Operations Manager

Job title: Payroll Operations Manager

About us:

Insight Enterprises is a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator helping organizations accelerate transformation by unlocking the power of people and technology. With a 35-year foundation in hardware and software supply chain augmenting our deep expertise in cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity and intelligent edge, we guide organizations through complex digital decisions to achieve extraordinary results.

The Finance function is responsible for all aspects of Insight's financial management including the acquisition and utilisation of all funds necessary for the organisation to operate efficiently, and the controlling and planning of financial resources.

The Payroll Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of the payroll process within the organisation. This role involves ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll, compliance with relevant laws and regulations, and providing leadership to the EMEA payroll team to deliver high-quality services to teammates.  In addition, this role will review best practice and work towards making continuous improvements, creating consistency & efficiencies to ensure best in class service delivery to our teammates.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage and motivate the team, to promote teammate satisfaction through mentoring, development, and career planning; creating a high performing team with a strong succession benchmark, enabling career progression.
• Manage and oversee the end-to-end payroll process, including data input, calculations, deductions, and payments.
• Act as an escalation point for the EMEA payroll team.
• Ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements related to payroll processing.
• Develop and implement payroll policies and procedures to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Lead and manage a team of payroll specialists across EMEA, providing guidance, training, and support as needed.
• Collaborate with HR and Finance departments to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing.
• Resolve payroll discrepancies and issues in a timely and effective manner.
• Review and analyse payroll data to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Stay updated on payroll laws, regulations, and best practices to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.
• Provide leadership and support and liaise with appropriate third parties to resolve any payroll related queries.
• Responsible for articulating and aligning the functional strategy in line with that of the business by providing enough tools and resources to teammates to ensure the optimum delivery of the strategy against Insight’s goals.
• This list is not exhaustive, and teammates will be required to undertake additional responsibilities reasonably requested by their manager.

Key skills and experience required:

• Must have experience in an EMEA based role
• Experience managing a team
• Educated to degree level or can demonstrate equivalent work experience -A confident, outward-looking, proactive communicator
• High level of written and spoken English -Ability to interpret and analyse business and technical reports in addition to writing and presenting information to senior stakeholders
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, and Word) -Ability to manipulate large volumes of data and carry out detailed analysis

• Demonstrates experience of managing and motivating a high performing team within a fastpaced, target driven environment -Previous experience of payroll management within a global organisation
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload, including coordinating with others to ensure statutory and other deadlines and targets are met -
• Strong understanding of payroll laws, regulations, and best practices. -
• Excellent organisational skills, prioritising and working to tight deadlines -
• Possesses strong numerical skills can demonstrate an analytical and methodical approach -
• Ability to provide effective leadership, build positive team spirit and inspire, motivate, and support teammates -
• Experience of working at a senior level, influencing, and advising on policy and strategy -
• Ability to develop and encourage innovative ideas to drive improvement -
• Excellent working knowledge of computerised accounting systems -

About Insight:

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes.  Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Application Details:

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

A full job description will be provided upon application.