[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Remote logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/63a88d3a-221-1.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/remote.md)[Remote](https://jobicy.com/company/remote.md) # Manager, Payroll Operations – Eastern Europe Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/remote.md)ShareRemote from[Europe](https://jobicy.com/job-region/europe.md)SalaryPLN 206,300–232,100 / yrDepartment[Finance & Accounting](https://jobicy.com/categories/accounting-finance.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceDirectorPublished1 Oct 2026Apply before31 Oct 2026Listing views36Application actions2Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. This is a people-management role responsible for accurate, compliant, and timely multi-country payroll delivery across an Eastern European portfolio. The manager leads payroll specialists, resolves escalated operational issues, applies payroll controls, and manages relevant external payroll vendors. The role also supports country launches, vendor transitions, in-housing initiatives, and continuous-improvement work involving automation, workflows, KPIs, and service quality. Success requires strong regional payroll expertise, sound operational judgment, effective asynchronous communication, and the ability to collaborate with Finance, Legal, Product, People Operations, and Service Operations. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThe role combines accountability for regulated, deadline-sensitive payroll outcomes with leadership across multiple countries and complex escalations. It requires independent decisions, local payroll knowledge, vendor management, and coordination during high-impact implementation changes. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader PLN market for similar roles. Estimated job medianAbove marketPLN219,200PLN market rangePLN105k–PLN145k0PLN241k AI insightThe disclosed annual base-salary range is PLN 206,300–232,100, with a midpoint of PLN 219,200. The US market estimate for a comparable payroll operations manager is approximately USD 105,000–145,000 annually; this market range is an estimate and is not a conversion of the disclosed PLN offer. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I monitor exceptions closely, maintain an audit trail, and work with local experts or vendors to address regulatory changes before they affect payroll processing. Describe how you would handle a significant payroll error affecting employees near a pay deadline. I would first assess the scope, employee impact, legal implications, and available correction options. I would coordinate the appropriate payroll, vendor, Finance, and support teams, communicate a clear resolution plan and timeline, then run a root-cause review and implement preventive controls after the immediate issue is resolved. What is your approach to leading a payroll team in a remote, asynchronous environment? I set explicit outcomes, operating rhythms, escalation paths, and written standards so team members can make decisions confidently. I combine regular one-to-ones and coaching with transparent metrics, documented feedback, and an environment where people can raise risks early without blame. How would you evaluate an external payroll vendor's performance? I would use agreed service levels, payroll accuracy, on-time delivery, response times, quality of documentation, regulatory updates, and issue-resolution performance. Regular business reviews should convert those measures into clear actions, owners, and follow-up dates. How do you balance standard global processes with country-specific payroll requirements? I standardize the operating model, controls, documentation, and escalation framework wherever possible, while preserving localized procedures where law or market practice requires them. This creates consistency without compromising statutory compliance or payroll quality. Opportunity details ## About this role. ### About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! ### What this job can offer you The Manager, Payroll Operations is responsible for ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll delivery across a defined portfolio of countries or regions. This role combines people leadership with operational ownership, enabling your team to consistently meet or exceed payroll expectations while developing their skills and capabilities. As part of the Global Payroll Operations leadership group, you will lead a team of payroll specialists, supporting them through complex operational challenges and helping them prioritize work to maximize impact. You are accountable for translating strategic guidance into clear operational expectations, ensuring the team is aligned to processes, knowledge, and support needed to execute at a high level. This role requires balancing oversight and autonomy: you drive resolution of escalated payroll issues, apply policies consistently, recommend hiring and performance decisions, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders. At the same time, you foster a high-performing, engaged team capable of delivering results reliably and scaling their impact as the business grows. You will also contribute to critical global payroll implementation initiatives, providing market-specific expertise and operational input to ensure new country launches, vendor transitions, or process in-housing efforts succeed and maintain operational excellence. ### What you bring * Proven experience owning payroll outcomes for a team in regional or multi-country environments. * Demonstrated people leadership capability, including coaching, feedback, and performance input. * Comfortable leading investigations and driving operational resolution. * Able to clarify and consistently apply policies and controls. * Experience recommending hiring profiles, team changes, and performance actions. * Strong operational judgment with the ability to balance speed, accuracy, and customer impact. * Clear, structured written and verbal communicator, particularly effective in async environments. * Experience working in remote-first or globally distributed teams is a strong advantage. * Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus. ### Key Responsibilities * Team Leadership & Performance Own payroll outcomes for your team, holding accountability for accuracy, timeliness, and compliance within your scope. * Provide coaching, feedback, and day-to-day leadership to your assigned team of payroll specialists * Lead operational investigations into payroll issues and drive resolution within defined authority. * Provide input into performance ratings and recommend performance actions when required. * Foster a psychologically safe, high-accountability team environment. Payroll Operations Ownership * Own end-to-end payroll delivery for a defined group of countries, ensuring regulatory compliance and operational consistency. * Sustain operational working knowledge of country-specific payroll requirements within your scope. * Ensure payroll processes are followed, documented, and auditable. * Manage relationships with external payroll vendors relevant to your portfolio. Global Payroll Implementations * Actively support critical global payroll implementation initiatives, including new country launches, vendor transitions, or in-housing efforts. * Contribute market- and country-specific payroll expertise to ensure implementations are operationally sound and sustainable. * Identify execution risks early and partner with implementation and cross-functional teams to mitigate them. * Own payroll outcomes for your scope post-launch, ensuring stability after go-live. Operational Excellence & Improvement * Identify operational risks, recurring issues, and process gaps within your payroll scope. * Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve team capacity. * Support the rollout of new tools, automation, and standardized workflows. * Track and contribute to KPIs, service levels, and quality metrics. * Manage operational support for service arm of the business – including team performance and engagement in Zendesk Cross-Functional Collaboration * Partner with People Operations, Finance, Legal, Product, and Service Operations to support effective payroll delivery. * Translate payroll complexity into clear, actionable guidance for stakeholders. * Communicate proactively on risks, delays, or changes that may impact payroll outcomes. ### Practicals * Reports to: Senior Manager, or Manager, Payroll Operations * Team: Payroll Operations * Location: Anywhere in the world * Start date: As soon as possible ### Application process * Async profile review * Interview with Recruiter * Interview with Hiring Manager * Interview with Senior Director, Payroll Operations * Bar Raiser Interview * [Prior employment verification check](https://www.notion.so/Veremark-Remote-96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b) * Async offer Remote’s [Total Rewards philosophy](https://www.notion.so/remotecom/people-Total-Rewards-1945bce8d3924ece9421ba8630f57b0c) is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries. At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide – here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change. At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis. The annual salary range for this full-time position is 206 300 zł—232 100 zł PLN ### Benefits Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at [remote.com/r/benefits](http://remote.com/r/benefits). As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters: * work from anywhere * flexible paid time off * flexible working hours (we are [async](https://remote.com/async)) * 16 weeks paid parental leave * budget towards [co-working spaces, learning and wellness](https://app.notion.com/p/remotecom/Benefits-Perks-1e48a5869c274f40910b76d405b92f63?source=copy_link#3accb4dadab48025b7a6dbc23bc47504) (including gym memberships) * mental health support services * stock options * home office budget & IT equipment ### How you’ll plan your day (and life) We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at [remote.com/async](https://remote.com/async). You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs. If that sounds like something you want, apply now! ### How to apply * Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format. * We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. * If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to. At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote’s AI guidelines check see [here](https://www.notion.so/remotecom/Guidelines-on-using-AI-when-applying-for-a-job-at-Remote-11ccb4dadab4805f80a7c73b6567bd8f). Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 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