Senior Payroll Accountant

The role

The Senior Payroll Accountant will take ownership of payroll accounting and payroll-related operations across multiple jurisdictions. You will calculate payroll, perform reconciliations, and coordinate with external providers and internal teams like HR, Legal, Treasury, and Tax.

What you will do

• Calculate payroll and personnel-related expenses for assigned entities
• Coordinate payroll-related activities across multiple jurisdictions and legal entities
• Partner with HR, Legal, Treasury and Tax teams
• Perform payroll-related account reconciliations and support month-end closing activities
• Manage communication with external payroll providers, accounting firms, EORs, and other service providers
• Review and oversee payroll calculations prepared by outsourced payroll teams and external providers
• Ensure payroll data is complete, accurate, and delivered within established deadlines
• Work with payroll software and related systems
• Create, document, and improve payroll processes, controls, and workflows
• Support payroll-related audits

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of accounting experience, including significant exposure to payroll accounting and personnel-related expenses
• Strong understanding of payroll accounting, reconciliations, accruals, controls, and month-end close processes
• Experience working with external payroll providers, outsourced teams, EORs and other service providers
• General understanding of payroll-related tax and compliance requirements
• Experience supporting payroll operations across multiple jurisdictions
• Proven ability to establish, streamline, and improve processes in a fast-growing or evolving environment
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving capabilities
• Excellent organizational skills
• Experience working with payroll software, EOR platforms and ERP systems (e.g. Oracle NetSuite)
• Team player with a proactive, hands-on, and solution-oriented mindset
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Fluent English, both written and spoken

Nice to have

• Familiarity with payroll requirements in the UAE and UK

Benefits

• Great challenges with various opportunities to prove your talents
• A welcoming international team of highly qualified professionals
• Remote work from anywhere in the world
• Great corporate culture with internal events
• Supportive and empowering environment
• Flexible schedule
• 40 paid days off
• Competitive salary

About the company

eqvilentjobs is a company with a welcoming international team of highly qualified professionals.