Employee Relationship Consultant in Cork

The Global Payroll team is seeking an experienced, self-motivated, and systems-savvy Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll to lead payroll operations across the EMEA region. This role will be responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery across multiple countries, while leading a regional payroll team, managing external vendor relationships, strengthening controls, and driving process standardization. The Senior Manager, EMEA Payroll will partner closely with People, Benefits, Equity, Finance, Accounting, HRIS, Legal, and external payroll providers to support a high-quality employee experience and scalable payroll operations. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin or Cork for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities: Lead end-to-end payroll operations across multiple EMEA countries, including but not limited to Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland Ensure accurate and timely monthly payroll processing, including base pay, variable compensation, equity compensation, statutory benefits, supplemental benefits, payroll taxes, deductions, and related payments Manage, mentor, and develop a regional payroll team, including oversight of workload, performance, priorities, and development needs Serve as the regional payroll subject matter expert and primary escalation point for payroll-related matters across EMEA Manage relationships with external payroll vendors, HRIS partners, benefits providers, stock administration, Finance, Accounting, People teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders Monitor vendor performance, service delivery, issue resolution, and escalation management to ensure payroll obligations are met Ensure payroll processes are compliant with local payroll tax, employment tax, statutory reporting, withholding, benefits, and employment regulations in each country of operation Maintain a strong understanding of in-region benefits legislation and the payroll implicatio

Work Flexibility: Hybrid Main Responsibilities: Conducts HR investigations for a high-volume portfolio of cases across multiple countries and divisions. Including intake processes, investigation planning and interviews, recommendation and determination, and reporting/insights analysis. Communicates and updates status of investigations to relevant managers and HRBPs. Makes recommendations to HRBPs and leadership regarding investigations and employee relations issues. Provides additional support on high level, complex cases as needed. Analyzes HR investigations, employee relations and other data trends to address and mitigate risk and support and drive our culture of integrity. Partners with HR and managers to drive necessary improvements. Responds to alleged violation of rules, regulations, policies, procedures and standards of conduct through the initiation of appropriate investigation procedures in partnership with Legal, Compliance and local HR teams. Provides counsel and advice to managers and HRBPs regarding employee relations issues, submits recommendations on addressing employee relations matters and assists with taking steps in response Develops and delivers training to managers, employees and HRBPs. Supports in defining the standards and processes related to employee relations across EMEA/EEMEA. Provides coaching to HRBPs on employee relations matters in addition to work environment matters Coordinates with compliance and legal regarding employee discipline for compliance investigations that are not work environment matters. May also assist in these investigations. Reporting high level HR investigations results, trends and analysis to appropriate stakeholders such as investigation oversite committee and compliance committee. Maintains knowledge of current and emerging laws an

We are looking for a Senior Payroll Specialist to serve as a subject matter expert on our Global Payroll team, with ownership of payroll operations across LATAM (Brazil and Mexico). Reporting to the Senior Payroll Manager, this role partners closely with HR, Finance, and external vendors to ensure accurate, compliant, and timely payroll delivery. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Cork for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities: Prepare and review advance, monthly and supplemental payrolls for our LATAM operations including salary, equity, benefits, and variable pay Manage Brazil 13º salário (13th month salary), férias (vacation), and rescisão (termination) calculations and payments Manage Mexico Christmas Bonus, profit sharing and terminations calculations and payments Single point of contact (POC) for all LATAM issues. Resolve all issues in a timely manner and within global payroll SLAs Reconcile payroll and support monthly/quarterly/annual accounting close processes Build internal LATAM payroll expertise, reducing reliance on external consultants through hands-on guidance and more efficient processes Issue union due slips and submit for payment Prepare the income tax DARF and reconcile the amounts according to the appropriate period Deep, current knowledge of Brazilian labor law (CLT), social security and tax obligations, and the eSocial/FGTS Digital ecosystem Own LATAM payroll-related employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, vacations and terminations, ensuring accurate and timely execution Partner with Legal, Finance, and HR on termination processing, CBA (Dissidio) and any other processes as required Ensure we are meeting annual compliance requirements; assist the Payroll Tax Team with any audits and year-end compliance reporting Train junior payroll staff; document and continuously improve payroll SOPs Automate processes to enhance scalability and efficiency of payroll operations Ensure SOX compliance with all pa