Global Payroll Manager
14 hours ago
Moodiesburn
About us: We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of ‘Creating the Added Layer of Value’. Primarily used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach way beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do. As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions. We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business. Our mission is to sustainably utilise technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers. We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible now, and in the future. Do you want to be part of our journey? About the Job: We’re looking for an experienced and strategic Global Payroll Manager to lead the development and implementation of payroll policies, systems, and processes across our organisation. In this role, you’ll ensure full compliance with legal and company standards, while driving operational excellence and identifying opportunities for improvement. You’ll design and roll out a global payroll operating model, and support a team of payroll analysts through expert leadership and advice. Key responsibilities include monitoring labour costs and monthly analysis, providing insights to senior management, and ensuring all pay and contract practices align with legal and internal standards. You’ll also collaborate closely with IT, HR, and administrative teams to maintain and enhance payroll systems, ensuring seamless integration with HR platforms and ERP systems. Key Responsibilities: • Financial Management and Control: Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of the financial management and/or control process., • Financial Policies, Guidelines, and Protocols: Develop and deliver financial guidelines and protocols to ensure the company complies with regulations and good financial practice., • Cost Management: Manage costs to help control costs and ensure value for money., • Regulatory and Compliance Management: Investigate all kinds of incidents and reports and provide expert advice to more senior colleagues. Minimize risk exposures and ensure adherence with regulatory standards by working with all internal functions to make sure compliance programs are properly implemented., • Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals., • Financial Information Systems: Support the implementation of financial systems process changes and enhancements; ensure all changes are effectively implemented., • Information and Business Advice: Provide specialist advice on the interpretation and application of policies and procedures, resolving complex or contentious queries and issues and enabling others to take appropriate actions., • Stakeholder Engagement: Contribute to stakeholder engagement by identifying stakeholders; by finding out their needs, issues, and concerns; and by reacting to these needs, issues, and concerns, arranging meetings and events and drafting supporting materials to promote understanding and commitment., • Performance Management: Develop and propose own performance objectives; take appropriate actions to ensure achievement of agreed objectives, using the organization's performance management systems to improve personal performance. Or manage and report on team performance; set appropriate performance objectives for project/account team members and hold people accountable for achieving them, taking appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives. Skills / Knowledge and Experience: The successful candidate will have relevant experience demonstrating their ability in managing payroll improvement & implementation projects in their career to date. Strong data analysis skills are important, as is the ability to communicate your findings & recommendations to the key stakeholders involved. This is a global role and it is expected that the candidate will have the flexibility to travel to different company locations from time to time. What next? If this sounds like a role that you would be interested in, then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please email a copy of your CV, along with a cover letter explaining the key attributes that you could bring to the role. We value the support recruitment agencies provide, however we are unable to accept speculative CV’s from agencies we are not already engaged with. Email address for applications: Closing Date: 27/09/2025 *Please note, closing dates are subject to change and, at time of high volume of applications, this may be brought forward. Other important information: We believe it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly innovative company. So if you share our values, purpose and drive for growth and sustainability, then we want to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to be able to pursue an application with us, please let our Recruitment team know. Information Security is paramount at Devro, so your application and any personal data you share with us will be processed and stored in line with our Candidate Privacy Notice which you can view here ___.