Regional Payroll Manager

Would you like to contribute to a company that has ‘’Feeding the Future’’ as its mission? Are you a Payroll Manager with broad experience in HR? Are you looking for a new challenge in an international animal nutrition company? Then Nutreco has this interesting position for you

**What are you going to do?**

As a Nutreco company, Trouw Nutrition's mission is to feed the future. We develop and provide innovative feed technologies, premixes and unique software solutions and services for the animal nutrition industry. Our cutting-edge products, models and services are all designed to optimize animal nutrition and animal health through all life stages. In a world with limited natural resources, our ambition is to meet the rising food needs of a growing world population in a sustainable manner.

In order to continue to fulfill our ambition as a market leader, the intrinsic demands for the growing business and customer support, the company is further investing in the area of HR.

The Regional Payroll Manager - Europe is accountable for the performance and the day-to-day operations for the Payroll team within the HR Services hub. The Payroll Manager is a people manager, ensures sufficient and efficient staffing. Anticipates turnover and finds a balance between both junior/senior and skills in the team. Focusing on coaching the team, training staff members and facilitating team development. Lead the team through change and drive a culture of process improvement, with focus on the service level to the business on one side and compliancy to local and global standards and policies on the other side.

Not afraid of a technical HR challenge in a complex EMEA context? Following deployment and adoption of a solid HR technology backbone, we have successfully transformed our HR operating model. During 2023 we focus on developing our payroll community. This exciting opportunity sets you at the driving wheel of a big challenge; how to bring several individually operating payroll teams (+/- 10-15 FTE) together in a single community that can operate at a regional level?

You will join the regional HR management team and manage the local payroll teams on a daily basis. Next to managing the monthly pay cycles, you work actively on improving our payroll and related (technology) processes and integrations. You will be in the lead for some local or regional projects, varying in complexity. As we are building up similar skills in other regions, there is a big opportunity to join projects on a global level as well. In any case, we expect you to build up your team, using the unique skills of each individual member to create a high-performing team that strives to offer the best payroll experience possible.

The Payroll Manager will facilitate the rollout of new Payroll policies on a local or regional level. This involves giving input on (new) functionality to Workday (HRIS) technical team, the internal/external Payroll vendors, (preparation of) communication to target group, train employees in the payroll team to act on their (new) tasks. In this regard, the Payroll Manager will interact with local HR business partners, HR managers, CoE managers on local or regional level, workday technical team and communications specialists.

**What are your key accountabilities?**

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
**Leadership**:

- Provide personal leadership and direction to the local payroll leads; bring the team together, set the strategic direction and guide them on steps to take;
- Build relationships with main stakeholders in the region; including HR Services Managers, Finance, Tax and others
- Team’s tasks & efforts reporting and forecasting. Balancing assignations;
- Work continuously to develop the team and individuals in the group: supervision/feedback;
- Engage with stakeholders at all levels;
- Support Payroll Leads in the allocation of tasks - work with on-site payrollers as a manager;

**Project Management and Organizational structure/Process**:

- Deliver a seamless process flow for all payroll processes and pushes for a culture that looks for continuous process improvements and high quality
- Leads payroll, benefits or related projects on a local or regional basis. Act as change manager, deals with expectations of relevant stakeholders and balances budget with quality of deployments;
- Guards the payroll governance and advises on procedural controls, risk and governance.
- Standardize regionally ways of working, calendars, processes and reporting
- Responsible for data quality - work across teams
- Support externalization projects (SD W, ADP, TMF, CP, )

**Delivery of service & communication**:

- Manage and oversee accurate and timely delivery of payroll for all local payrolls in line with service levels, actively contributes to those goals and sets the example;
- Resolve payroll problems like tax and all other escalated payroll enquiries by proposing the best solution and collabora