Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer .

Job Description

We're currently hiring for a Payroll Project Lead based in London to lead on our payroll growth and expansion projects for a 12 month fixed term contract. This role reports to the Global Head of Payroll managing and delivering payroll set up and implementation into expansion and growth markets. You will work closely with our vendors (including Workday, CloudPay and Deel), and work closely with People Operations, Reward, Finance and People Technology to ensure alignment across the project and implement new payrolls on time per the project.

You'll be accountable for day to day project management, stakeholder engagement, creating project timelines and ensuring adherence to those and vendor management.

The Role:

- Support and implement payroll into new and existing markets

- Lead the payroll project work stream and ensure stakeholders are kept informed

- Partner with People teams to align on project goals

- Prepare payroll for go live and hand over to local teams

- Support hyper care period and act as point of escalation

- Vendor management, including performance management, ensuring Service Level Agreements are being met.

- Manage key vendor relationships (CloudPay and Deel) to ensure services meet Wise's evolving needs and continuously evaluate the landscape to ensure Wise gets value for money

- Work closely with Reward, Finance, Legal, People Operations and regional leadership to align payroll delivery with business priorities.

About You:

- Proven project manager with experience managing large-scale, complex payroll projects

- Strong vendor management skills, with experience optimising external partnerships and driving performance to SLAs

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

- Pragmatic and solutions-focused, with the ability to balance compliance, efficiency and colleague experience

- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth and ambiguous environment is essential

Qualifications

Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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