EMEA & Americas Payroll Manager

EMEA & Americas Payroll Manager

Department: 30-653 - HR - Rewards

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: UK - London

Description

DAZN is the global leader in sports streaming, delivering live and on-demand content to millions of fans across 25 countries. Behind the action, our People and Finance teams power a fast-moving, global organisation that continues to grow at pace.

As our EMEA & Americas Payroll Manager, payroll processing for around 1,500 employees across multiple countries, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency at every step. You'll lead a small team and partner closely with HR, Finance, and Legal to ensure smooth delivery, continuous improvement, and exceptional service for our people.

This is a hands-on, leadership role ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic, multinational environment and enjoys balancing operational excellence with process transformation.

The Role

You'll manage the end-to-end payroll process across the EMEA and Americas regions, overseeing vendor relationships, ensuring compliance with local legislation, and maintaining governance. You'll lead and develop a team of payroll administrators, acting as the key escalation point for complex queries and driving standardisation and efficiency across multiple jurisdictions.

In addition to operational delivery, you'll play a critical role in payroll transformation initiatives - helping DAZN enhance systems, processes, and controls as we continue to scale globally.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Manage accurate and timely payroll processing across the EMEA and Americas regions, ensuring compliance with local laws and internal policies.
• Lead, support, and develop a small team of payroll administrators, coordinating with in-country vendors to deliver seamless payroll operations.
• Oversee executive payrolls, maintaining strict confidentiality, accuracy, and governance.
• Validate all payroll inputs - including new hires, leavers, variable pay, benefits, and statutory deductions - and perform variance checks before approvals.
• Ensure full compliance with tax, social security, and labour regulations while maintaining up-to-date SOPs and audit readiness.
• Act as the main escalation point for payroll queries, partnering closely with HR, Finance, and Legal to resolve issues quickly and effectively.
• Manage relationships with external payroll providers, monitoring performance, service levels, and accuracy of delivery.
• Produce clear and accurate payroll reports and insights for stakeholders, supporting business visibility and decision-making.

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years' experience in payroll supervisory or management role
• UK payroll experience essential; additional EMEA or Americas experience highly desirable.
• In-depth knowledge of payroll regulations, tax legislation, and statutory reporting.
• Experience managing outsourced payroll vendors and systems (e.g. ADP, Safeguard, Oracle).
• Proven ability to oversee multiple countries with complex requirements.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills with confidence working with data and reports.
• Experience leading or mentoring a payroll team.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• High attention to detail, integrity, and discretion when handling confidential information.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, multinational environment.

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days' annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.