Regional Payroll Manager - LATAM

Employers, the world over, are expected to pay the right salary to the right employees at the right time, all the while ensuring that they adhere to native laws and local compliance regulations. As basic as this could sound, we at Neeyamo understand the complexities of ensuring payroll accuracy and its role in employee satisfaction – more importantly we never shy away from appreciating the passion shown by payroll professionals to ensure this gets done.

So, are you looking for a career that allows you to lead a group of talented and passionate payroll professionals for the LATAM region? Read on!

Your role in a nutshell

You will be responsible for delivering payroll across the LATAM region through a team of payroll experts. Your ability to lead and govern the team will be an integral part of the role. Your project management abilities to help assist and direct daily tasks that would result in effective payroll service delivery will play a crucial role in your success as a Regional Payroll Manager.

Core Responsibilities

You will be responsible for Payroll delivery across LATAM in a smooth manner by ensuring activities are undertaken in order to adhere to committed deadlines.
Review business, processes and work towards continually improving delivery and enhancing customer satisfaction.
You will manage a team of cluster managers and have proper governance and reporting framework deployed for identifying delivery risks and have them addressed in a timely manner.
Manage the team of payroll consultants and partners and work in tandem with them to ensure key responsibilities and goals are attained as per committed timelines. You will be required to undertake pricing negotiations, with partners, where required.
You will be responsible for creating quarterly and annual budgets in tandem with the Operations Manager for your respective regions, ensuring budget control for the regional organization.
You will monitor and ensure the maintenance of country-specific knowledge repositories pertaining to your region which will be relied upon by multiple teams across the organization.
A key responsibility would be to help Neeyamo expand its delivery to support payroll processing by its in-house teams, depending on the overall strategic roadmap defined by the organization.
Your managerial role will involve talent acquisition and retention of cluster & country managers who will be your direct reports – therefore team engagement and talent development will be one of your key responsibilities.

Experience and Skills

Past Experience:

We are looking for a leader with 12+ years of relative experience in managing teams – having managed payroll in the past would be highly desired.
Having a Payroll/HR/Finance background with an understanding of the core competencies of the payroll process is also desirable.
Having worked in delivering for a multi-country set-up
Showcase relevant experience in liaising with clients in past roles and having taken accountability for customer satisfaction
Strong skills in drafting and overseeing reports circulated amongst internal stakeholders and to customers alike

Education & Certification Background:

Any graduate. We would prefer that you hold an MBA.
Additional industry-specific certifications such as CIPP / APA / PMI / 6 Sigma etc will give your application an edge.

Other qualifiers:

You will be required to travel – so please be prepared!
As this will be a client-facing role, we will be looking for an applicant with excellent communication skills
Showcase a significant thirst for growth. This role can level-up as the organization grows or when a vacancy opens, provided you demonstrate the right traits through operational control, client management and people management.

Work Culture

• At Neeyamo, every employee will be deemed a kNight where qualities such as fairness, integrity, mutual respect, performance, and ethics are held in high regard
• Each kNight at Neeyamo is selected through a rigorous screening process to ensure that deserving candidates join the organization.
• Neeyamo’s relatively young workforce is always seen to infuse a lot of energy on the floor – with several events and programs.
• The organization offers a multi-cultural work environment that enables every individual to excel beyond pre-defined geographic boundaries.