Regional Payroll Manager, CEED (Central Eastern Europe)

Company Name: Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Type of Role: Contract position, Inside IR35

Contract length: 3 months (until the end of 2025)

Location: Fully Remote (UK)

Department: Payroll & Stock Administration

Looking for opportunities with purpose, impact and possibilities? Our client, Vertex, is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation. As they grow their pipeline at pace, they are strengthening their reputation for creating transformative medicines for people with serious diseases.

General Summary:

We are recruiting for an energetic, ambitious Regional Payroll Manager keen to pursue excellence and drive improvements within our Central Eastern Europe (“CEED”) region.

Working in the payroll team within the International Finance Shared Service Centre, the Regional Payroll Manager – CEED will take ownership for all locations within the CEED region, reporting directly to the International Payroll Lead.

The role is about making sure our month-to-month operations run accurately, timely and compliantly by applying strong diligence and utilising your international payroll knowledge as well as working with internal teams and our external payroll provider.

The role also allows for a voice at the table to suggest enhancements to processes and systems, and you will be encouraged and expected to ensure the payroll operating procedures continue to improve.

Building and maintaining strong relationships is crucial for this role, especially with colleagues in HR and Finance both across International and in the US.

Note that there is the potential for ownership of regions to be switched between other Regional Payroll team members to support continuous career development and sharing of best practices.

Due to the reason for the availability for the role, there may be a request for the individual to either partly or fully assist with creating and / or updating department procedures.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take ownership for the CEED payroll region.
• Full monthly activities related to the timely preparation and accurate end-to-end processing of Vertex’s International payrolls in partnership with external payroll service provider.
• Assist fellow Regional Payroll team members as required to cover vacation and sickness.
• Partner closely with HR, Global Stock Administration, Mobility and Employment Tax colleagues.
• Assist International Payroll Lead with payroll and data governance framework and controls as required, including SOX controls and support audit requests.
• Recommend opportunities to implement positive change and ensure full suite of process and procedures are available for your region.
• Work with the GL team to ensure postings accurately reflect monthly payroll and assist with balance sheet reconciliation activities.
• Ensure employee and HR requests are dealt with within the shared services SLAs.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Expert understanding of UK payroll and strong understanding of payroll approaches outside UK (especially EMEA).
• Ability to build and maintain strong partnerships across internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of analytical and problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to analyse large data sets for key risks and trends.
• Experience in process optimization, new country deployment and automation of payroll processes.
• Experience working in Shared Services environment.
• Comfortable working with deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Education and Experience:

• Professional payroll qualification (CIPP or equivalent) and/or with extensive experience in a comparable role.
• Strong experience within international payroll.
• Workday HR knowledge helpful.

Vertex is partnering with Talent Works to manage their international temporary job openings. If you are successful in your application, you will be employed by Talent Works to work on a temporary assignment at Vertex.