Senior Payroll Specialist
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
About Us: At Sitecore, our mission is to simplify how brands reach, engage, and serve people by delivering intelligent, personalized digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the world’s most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers—seamlessly, smartly, and at scale. As the leading provider of agentic digital experience software, Sitecore brings together content, commerce, and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful, adaptive experiences every day. Trusted by global leaders such as American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, and L’Oréal, Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not only personalized but predictive and dynamic. Our foundation is our people—a diverse, passionate, and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters, and that belief starts with how we work together. Our values—empathy, accountability, clarity, and growth—guide how we lead, innovate, and connect. They are the behaviors that bring our mission and vision to life, every day, in every interaction. As we continue to evolve, we are actively cultivating AI skills across our teams to unlock new levels of creativity, efficiency, and insight. From engineering to customer experience, AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design, build, and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.
About the Role: We are seeking a highly detail-oriented and organized Senior Payroll Specialist with proven experience in Global Payroll to join our expanding team. This position reports directly to the Senior Global Payroll Manager based in Dublin, Ireland, and is responsible for administering complete in-house semi-monthly payroll processes for employees across the EMEA entities. The role is instrumental in ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance, and timeliness, while effectively coordinating between HR, Finance, and external service providers.
What You’ll Do
* Process end-to-end payroll for employees in the European entities; occasionally support colleagues or manage additional payroll runs in the USA & Canada.
* Work closely with HR to ensure accurate employee data, including the setup of new employee records, validating employee changes, and terminations.
* Reconcile and process payroll deduction changes for different country pension funds, enrolments, and deductions, and remit funding periodically.
* Initiate off-cycle payments for terminations within regulatory timeframes.
* Ensure all payroll-related tax filings are done timely and accurately, including the set-up of new accounts with various federal, state, and local agencies; work with tax agencies and payroll service providers to resolve tax issues.
* Maintain compliance with employment laws and regulations – monitoring federal, state, city, and local registrations for payroll taxes.
* Prepare monthly payroll reconciliations (reconciliation of payroll GL accounts to payroll register).
* Participate in internal/external payroll-related audits and requests.
What You Need to Succeed
* Minimum of 5 years’ experience processing payroll.
* UK and Irish payroll processing experience with strong knowledge of UK and Irish payroll tax, pension, benefits and wage laws.
* Experience processing payroll in Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, or Saudi Arabia is advantageous.
* Highly proficient in data entry, multiple payroll systems, Workday experience, Excel, and Word.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and adhere to tight deadlines while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
* Strong organization skills and the ability to maintain detailed records.
* Collaboration across departments.
How we hire
At Sitecore, we put a lot of care and time into who we hire. We believe that in order to build the best products, we need to build high-impact teams. Our recruitment process centers around what we call the Life Story interview, a conversational-style interview where we get to learn more about you.
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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Seniority level: Associate
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Finance and Accounting / Auditing
Industries: Software Development and Technology, Information and Internet
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