Senior Payroll Specialist

Stanley/Stella

YOUR PURPOSE AT STANLEY/STELLA As Senior HR Business Partner International, you act as a strategic partner to our business leaders across multiple regions. You strengthen our people strategy, elevate our employee experience, and ensure that our HR practices support sustainable growth and a high-performance, values-driven culture.   Your mission is to anticipate talent needs, develop our people, enable leaders, and ensure that our HR frameworks, processes, and tools operate seamlessly at global scale. You challenge, advise, and support business leaders with clarity, credibility, and a strong understanding of our international business.   You work closely with the Global HR Manager and collaborate with the wider HR team (Talent Acquisition, Payroll & Administration, Learning & Development, Employer Branding, HR Projects). YOUR ROLE AND IMPACT Strategic HR Partnership * Serve as a trusted advisor to international business leaders, guiding them on people strategy, team structure, leadership effectiveness, and workforce planning * Translate business needs into concrete HR actions, ensuring alignment with Stanley/Stella’s values and long-term objectives * Drive organizational development initiatives that support growth, efficiency, and collaboration across regions * Support proactive talent pipeline building and succession planning across key functions Learning, Development & Performance  * Partner with leaders to strengthen team capabilities and close skill gaps through structured development plans * Co-design and deploy training programs supporting our strategic pillars: Sustainability, Innovation, Quality, Leadership * Ensure a consistent, fair, and impactful performance cycle (goal-setting, mid-year, end-year) * Guide leaders in building high-performing, values-driven teams Employee Experience & Culture * Elevate our global onboarding experience and ensure consistency across regions, from pre-boarding to full integration * Champion our culture and values by guiding leaders in day-to-day behaviours and team dynamics * Act as a point of contact for employee relations cases, ensuring fairness, clarity, and compliance with local legislation (in partnership with regional HR/experts) HR Processes, Data & Continuous Improvement * Improve and harmonize HR processes internationally, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and digitalization * Actively contribute to HR governance, reporting, and data-driven decision-making using HR analytics * Co-lead HR projects across the global HR roadmap (EVP, HRIS development, new policies, global frameworks, AssessFirst rollout, etc.) Employer Branding & Internal Communication * Support visibility and consistency of our employer brand across countries * Collaborate on employer branding initiatives, onboarding materials, training content, and employee communication ABOUT YOU Experience & Background * Bachelor or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology or related fields * Minimum 8–10 years of confirmed experience as HR Business Partner in an international, fast-paced, multicultural environment * Strong track record of partnering with leadership teams, driving HR programs, and managing complex people topics * Experience with organizational development, talent management, and change management * Solid knowledge of EU labour legislation; additional international exposure is a strong asset Skills & Competencies * Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business challenges into actionable HR solutions * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to influence, challenge, coach, and support leaders * Hands-on, solution-oriented mindset with strong ability to prioritise in a fast-moving environment * Data-literate, comfortable with HR metrics, dashboards, and HRIS tools (Personio experience is a plus) * Fluent in French and English; any additional language (Dutch, Spanish, German…) is an advantage * Values-driven professional who embodies our culture: Entrepreneurship, Respect, Transparency, Customer-Driven

Sona

3 billion people across the world work in frontline jobs. Yet, despite rising costs and staff shortages, frontline organisations are still left to choose between paper, Excel, and WhatsApp, or decade-old workforce management solutions to take care of the most important part of their businesses - their people. Enter Sona: the next generation of AI-native, frontline workforce management. We’ve built an end-to-end platform covering Scheduling, HR, Payroll, and Communications that gives the largest frontline organisations everything they need to staff more intelligently and empower their teams. In under 5 years, we've already made a deep impact on the lives of over 100k frontline workers and the operation of their organisations, grown the team to 160+, and secured over $100M in funding from notable VC's, including our Series B led by N47 alongside Felicis, Northzone, and Gradient Ventures (Google). It’s a hugely exciting time to be joining the team as we’re still small enough that you’ll have a significant impact on the company’s growth trajectory and culture, yet large enough to have a great structure, experienced leaders and world-class benefits in place. About the Role We're growing our payroll bureau fast, and hiring Senior Payroll Specialists to own payroll processing and the customer relationship end-to-end for a portfolio of Sona's frontline customers. This isn't a conventional bureau role. We're a fast-moving startup where everyone has a hand in building our processes, tools, and ways of working, and we're already more AI-forward in how we run payroll than any other bureau we know. You'll help push that further, not just keep up with it. If you want a highly structured environment with the playbook already written, this likely isn't the fit. If you're energised by building, and by figuring out where AI genuinely helps rather than just following a process, you'll have real ownership and real opportunity as the bureau scales. Responsibilities  * Run end-to-end payrolls for a growing portfolio of enterprise customers with complex requirements, spanning hourly rates, overtime, and weekly, fortnightly or monthly cycles * Own your client relationships as their primary point of contact, giving them confidence in our service * Identify opportunities to improve how we work, including where AI can help, and help put those improvements into practice * Act as a payroll expert in support of sales, helping prospective customers understand how our bureau operates * Collaborate across Sona, from Implementation and Product to Customer Success and Support * Develop a strong working knowledge of our HR and WFM platform and how it connects to payroll * Monitor KPIs, SLAs and compliance to ensure we deliver the highest standard of service * Stay current on the legislation, tools and trends that shape how we run payroll   Requirements * Hands-on bureau payroll experience, processing for multiple clients rather than running a single in-house payroll * Strong working knowledge of UK payroll legislation: PAYE, RTI, pension auto-enrolment, and statutory payments * Comfortable managing multiple concurrent payrolls at volume and across different pay cycles * Assured and expert with clients, operating as a trusted advisor on payroll matters * Genuinely curious and self-sufficient: you research, question inefficiencies, and bring ideas rather than needing a playbook handed to you * Genuinely motivated by a startup environment where you help build the processes, not just follow them * Bonus: CIPP qualified (or working towards it), high-volume or multi-sector bureau experience, and any experience building or improving payroll tools and processes, including with AI. A little Ireland payroll exposure is a nice-to-have, not a requirement.   Benefits * Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 * Hybrid working - 2+ days/week in our London office (Soho) * Share options * 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)  * Extra day of leave for every year of service * Pension contributions matched up to 5% * Comprehensive health insurance * Enhanced parental leave & pay * Salary sacrifice childcare scheme (Workplace Nursery) * Annual all expenses paid team retreats * The latest Macbook and equipment budget for your home office * Professional development budget * Unlimited free books Note: this represents a typical benefits package for a UK-based, full-time employee. Exact details may vary based on location and employment type but we try to be as fair as possible to all of our team members. Please ask your contact in the Talent team to clarify the available benefits for you.

Coinbase

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. As a Senior Payroll Specialist on the Global Payroll team, you'll lead biweekly payroll processing for all U.S. salaried and hourly employees. The Global Payroll team manages end-to-end payroll operations across five continents, partnering with HR, Finance, Accounting, and Legal to deliver accurate, compliant, and scalable payroll services. You'll own the full U.S. payroll cycle, including equity-related payroll, and serve as the go-to resource for resolving employee payroll inquiries with speed and precision. What you'll do: * Own end-to-end biweekly U.S. payroll processing for salaried and hourly employees, including daily payroll cycles for non-qualified stock options. * Execute payroll input compilation from multiple sources, validating data for accuracy and completeness before each cycle. * Drive timely resolution of employee payroll inquiries in Jira within SLA, performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence. * Partner with HR, Finance, and cross-functional teams to process employee changes in payroll and cross-check data accuracy. * Lead timecard tracking and reconciliation to ensure alignment between timekeeping systems and payroll records. * Support continuous process improvements by identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency gains in payroll workflows. Required Skills and Experience: * Experience with multi-state payroll processing experience, with demonstrated expertise in federal, state, and local tax compliance. * Proven experience processing payroll for employee populations that receive equity compensation, including restricted stock units. * Hands-on proficiency with payroll platforms (e.g., UKG Pro, Workday HCM) and HRIS integrations in a high-volume environment. * Track record of resolving complex payroll issues independently, with documented root cause analysis and process improvement outcomes. * Proficiency in Google Workspace, Slack, Atlassian tools (Jira), and Apple products for daily collaboration and case management. * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. * Fluency with cloud-native data environments (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) and their metadata, lineage, and governance capabilities at scale.   Req ID: # P76974 #LI-Remote Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).    Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $124,780—$146,800 USD * Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period. * Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. * US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation. * Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial. * Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.