Senior Payroll Specialist

The role

The Senior Payroll Specialist owns end-to-end Dutch payroll using Nmbrs and acts as a backup for international payrolls. This role harmonizes and improves payroll execution and accounting across Dutch entities to ensure accuracy and compliance.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end Dutch payroll execution in Nmbrs across entities and pay groups
• Ensure Dutch payroll tax and social security compliance
• Administer regulated and complex pay items including 30% ruling and equity income
• Run and reconcile shadow payrolls for internationally mobile employees
• Serve as the designated backup for the company's other international payrolls
• Lead root-cause analysis for recurring payroll, accounting, or service failures
• Drive process harmonization and simplification
• Lead payroll execution during transitions such as new entity launches or restructures
• Ensure payroll accounting remains clean with consistent journals and reconciliations
• Monitor preventative controls including SOX-aligned payroll controls

Required qualifications

• At least 7+ years of Dutch payroll experience
• Deep working knowledge of Dutch payroll compliance including loonheffingen, WKR, and 30% ruling
• Working knowledge of international payroll
• Strong payroll controllership skills
• Proven capability improving payroll processes and leading transitions
• Strong payroll accounting knowledge and experience working with Finance
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Fluent English
• Professional working proficiency in Dutch

Nice to have

• Hands-on Nmbrs experience
• Dutch payroll qualification (PDL and/or VPS) and/or Nmbrs certification
• Experience with international payroll providers or aggregators and multi-country operating models
• Experience operating payroll controls in a SOX-compliant, US-listed company environment
• Experience with equity compensation payroll (RSUs/options)
• Experience supporting Global Mobility programs
• Experience turning statutory/operational requirements into system/workflow requirements
• Project management certification or comparable experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply

About the company

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform for the global AI economy. The company is listed on Nasdaq and is headquartered in Amsterdam.