International Payroll Manager

The Trainline

International Payroll Manager

Salary Not Specified

The Trainline, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 9 Sep | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 2fe0888d364d4e97acfce6b92c1e9e95

Full Job Description

Trainline is in a period of rapid scale with the People Team central to supporting the company's ambition and growth plans., We are looking for an experienced International Payroll Manager to oversee Payroll at The Trainline and work with our 3rd party Payroll provider.

If you're successful in your application, you'll be joining an enthused and high performing team, one which prides itself on providing stellar service at every stage of the employee life cycle, from on-boarding to off-boarding and everything in between.

Reporting into our Head of People Operations & Systems, you'll work on all things Payroll with responsibility for supporting employees across the business and ensuring a compliant and accurate payroll across each of our markets. You'll provide high quality support in relation to payroll processes and projects and quickly become an integral part of the team and wider business.

You will be responsible for the management of our out-sourced payroll, including:

  • Overseeing the administration and processing of the monthly payroll, ensuring it is accurate and on time.

  • Completion of Payroll reconciliations & sign-off.

  • Ensuring compliance in accordance with local regulations & audit controls & procedures.

  • Managing the relationship with our external payroll vendor, ensuring satisfactory service and a stable payroll.

  • Partner with Finance team of relevant payroll processes.

  • Partner with the Finance and Internal Audit teams on all audit requirements.

  • Liaising with Tax authorities to ensure any submissions and payments are accurate.

  • Driving regular process and quality audits to ensure payroll and data quality.

  • Providing Trainliners with accurate and consistent support with regards to Payroll practices and processes.

  • Focusing on transforming, building and maintaining effective Payroll processes and policies with a tech first mentality and in compliance with local legislation.


  • Based on the sensitive nature of the role, it's important that you bring the appropriate degree of discretion and empathy in the way you operate. To this end, you'll be responsible for identifying escalation points and making sure that any issues are managed appropriately and are dealt with efficiently. Furthermore, being heavily involved in all our Payroll processes means that you'll be ideally placed to contribute towards the development of new solutions that further enhance the quality, competence and effectiveness of our current offering.