Payroll Manager - Netherlands

Payroll Manager - Netherlands

Are you passionate about transforming Global Payroll at Shell and implementing solutions that ensure efficient, consistent, and high-standard employee payments? This is your opportunity! You will play a crucial role in the ongoing roll-out of the Global Payroll Strategy within the Global Payroll Organization, managing change and driving process excellence and standards in the NL payroll processes.

What’s the role

HR Operations and Employee Experience deliver global HR services, remuneration, and benefits to all businesses and their employees. As Payroll Manager, you will be reporting to the Regional Head of Payroll EU/AF, you will be an integral part of the European payroll team—a group of forward-thinking and engaging professionals who thrive in a high-paced global environment. Collaborating with our Global Payroll Leadership Team, payroll colleagues, and key stakeholders, we will redefine, standardize, and operationalize new solutions for Shell’s Global Payroll across 70+ countries to ensure a world-class pay experience.

What you’ll be doing

As the Payroll Manager Netherlands, you will be accountable for all payroll activities, which includes the support and stabilization of the Global Payroll Strategy roll out, ensuring the new process/technology are ‘fit for purpose’ within the Netherlands.

More specifically, your role will include:

• Accountable for payroll processing in the Netherlands, ensuring accurate and timely payroll, including base pay, stock compensation, payroll taxes, pension, statutory and supplemental benefits
• Accountable for the execution of internal controls that assure Shell Netherlands Payroll’s ongoing compliance in an increasingly complex statutory and regulatory landscape across Payroll, Policy, Tax, Legal, IT, Finance and HR Team
• Engaging with multiple local senior stakeholders, regulators & tax authorities
• Leading & supporting all team members through the implementation of all change impacting the NL payroll (including the Global Payroll Strategy)
• Driving team performance to build a high performing culture, value creation, employee engagement and develop organizational capabilities to achieve the desired future-state
• Fostering innovation of ideas and initiatives in team and with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement to streamline and optimize operational effectiveness

What you bring

When it comes to running the NL Payroll, your collaborative engagement style and positive, forward-thinking mindset will ensure success. You will motivate people and challenge the status-quo to ensure we deliver a world-class pay experience.

Furthermore, you will have:

• Extensive experience of leading / working within a payroll team with detailed operational experience of NL payroll (preferable based on SAP Payroll)
• Deep understanding of operational risk & experience in identifying and implementing controls to mitigate such risk
• Preferably, experience in vendor management
• Experience of leading & executing payroll projects
• Forward thinking, solution minded and can-do attitude
• Ability to demonstrate strong leadership and influencing, facilitation & stakeholder management skills across all levels of management
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Keen attention to detail, whilst still being able to see the ‘bigger picture’
• Sound judgmental skills to identify and resolve challenges and issues that protect and enhance Shell’s values, reputation, and commercial interests
• Experience of empowering, coaching, and mentoring colleagues to ensure the team’s objectives can be achieved
• Energy, enthusiasm & edge
• Fluent in Dutch

Shell in The Netherlands

Most Dutch people know us from the 570 retail stations where they can fill up, recharge and buy fresh sandwiches and coffee. But Shell is more than the stations. The company that started over 130 years ago grew into one of the world’s largest energy companies. And during that time, operations in the Netherlands have continued to expand.

For example, from Rotterdam, Shell coordinates the supply of lubricants for transport and agriculture, aviation fuel and raw materials. Shell Pernis produces the building blocks for healthcare disinfectants and muscle relaxants in Intensive Care. Amsterdam is home to one of our largest research centres in the world: the open Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam. From our campus in The Hague, we lead Shell’s global energy transition. Pernis is home to one of our main refineries and Moerdijk is home to our Dutch chemical plants.