Payroll Manager

**Are you ready to play an important role in establishing a sustainable Payroll department?**:Join us and become a key player in the LEGO Group In this role you'll spearhead transformative projects aimed at streamlining payroll operations, reducing manual efforts, and ensuring precision in financial transactions.Elevate your career by contributing to the forefront of payroll technology, driving efficiency, and shaping the future of payroll management.**Core Responsibilities**:As Payroll Manager, you are responsible for the creation and development of a high-performing Payroll Team that delivers a consistent service to all the customers of the Shared Service. This means to meet the customers’ expectations and provide them with a top professional service, incorporating the LEGO values. Beside of this you will be responsible for:- Guarantee all Payroll Inputs are processed by the team correctly and on time for more than 4,000 employees for USA & Canada.- Support Payroll Strategy, challenging status quo to improve productivity and performance management,- Partnership with main stakeholders as HR to establish best in class processes.- Support external benchmarks to define service delivery excellence.- Manage complex projects or assignments where professional judgment is required in solving problems and making recommendations.- Providing the Leadership Team with in-depth analysis, identifying issues and trends, which may affect overall profitability of the operations.- Provides assistance in regards to changes in legislation as well as systems/technology.- Managing relationship with all third-party vendors supporting Payroll (ADP, EPI USE, UKG)- Follow and operate according to policies of Payroll processes, ensuring compliance.- Ensuring great performance in Payroll Accuracy and Timeliness.- Working with Continuous Improvement Tools, exploring opportunities for efficiencies and cost reduction.**Play your part in our team succeeding**:Being part of providing services to the entire LEGO organization and in that way make a big difference. Personal and professional growth and development. Opportunity to be part of a global and very dynamic team with great learning opportunities located at a well-established manufacturing site where multiple global functions are also present.Entering the LEGO organisation means that you will build your capabilities in a global organisation getting hands-on experience with global tasks, day-to-day challenges and via collaboration with the broader organisation. The LEGO ways of working reflects dynamic collaboration, flexible mind-set, coherence and an activity based working approach.**Do you have what it takes?**:- Proven Payroll experience in areas of Payroll processing, Accounting or similar- In-depth Knowledge of North America Payroll: Strong understanding of the regulatory environment, tax rules, and compliance requirements across North America.- Proven leadership experience managing teams of 10+ employees, fostering collaboration and driving team performance.- Strong communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships across various levels of the organization. Resilient and adaptable in dynamic environments- Hands-on experience working with leading payroll vendors such as ADP, EPI-USE, and other third-party service providers.- Using payroll and HR management systems like Workday, SAP, ServiceNow, and UKG to streamline processes and improve efficiency.- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage several priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.- Strong background in operating within Shared Service Centers ensuring high levels of service delivery.- Advanced proficiency in both written and verbal communication, with the ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.**What’s in it for you?**Here are some of what to expect:**Family**Care**Leave -**We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.**Insurances -**All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.**Wellbeing**- We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based**Colleague**Discount**- We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.**Bonus**- We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme**Your workplace -**When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO