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Driving the Future of Europe.\nAt AUTODOC, we are proud to be a homegrown European success story. Founded in Berlin in 2008 and still headquartered in the heart of the continent today, we have evolved from a local specialist into Europe’s leading online platform for the automotive aftermarket.\nOur strength lies in our unique identity: we are a digital-first, e-commerce powerhouse with strong German roots and an expansive reach across 27 European countries. This continental focus allows us to blend our heritage with high-tech innovation, staying agile and closely connected to the markets we serve.\nToday, our team of more than 5,500 professionals from over 50 different countries is redefining mobility through cutting-edge technology. Bring your talent and expertise to a company that is building a sustainable, tech-driven future for drivers everywhere.\nCome join us and impact the future of AUTODOC!\n About the role:\nAs AUTODOC continues its rapid expansion across Europe, scaling our operations efficiently requires an agile, tech-driven approach to our people processes. With a international team of around 5,500 colleagues spread across 13 countries and entities, our current payroll infrastructure is moving toward a more modern, automated, and flexible operational model. To ensure our delivery stays seamless, compliant, and scalable as we grow, we are evolving our global supplier strategy and integrating smart automation tools into our workflows.\nTo help us with achieving this, we are hiring a Global Payroll Manager (m/f/d) to take managerial ownership of our global payroll delivery and drive our payroll transformation strategy.\nIn this key leadership position, you lead a multi-national team of internal payroll experts across Germany, Ukraine, Moldova, Czechia, Poland and Portugal, while overseeing relationships with external payroll providers as well. You drive process efficiency by delivering AI and workflow automation (such as n8n) to remove manual tasks wherever effective, while maintaining robust internal controls, audit readiness, and compliance with local tax and labour laws. Working closely with People Delivery and other Finance functions, you oversee data quality on a shared Jira board and provide consolidated reporting via a global payroll dashboard to support financial closures.\nThis is an exciting opportunity for an experienced payroll leader who thrives at the intersection of process optimization, team development, and strategy. You will have a direct impact on our operational success, steering supplier strategies and transforming how payroll scales as a key part of our fast-growing e-commerce environment.\nWhat you will do:\nGlobal payroll delivery: Ensure accurate and timely payroll execution across 13 countries, acting as the final escalation point for complex payroll matters.\nSupplier strategy & provider management: Steer external vendors in coordination with our internal experts through SLAs, quality reviews, and performance evaluations, transitioning to a flexible sourcing model that reduces single-provider dependency.\nProcess automation & transformation: Lead the implementation of defined AI and n8n workflow automation use cases to streamline operations and scale payroll efficiently.\nCompliance, controls & audit: Ensure adherence to local tax, social security, and labour regulations, while owning internal controls and leading internal and external audits.\nData quality & process ownership: Partner with People Delivery to improve data accuracy, maintaining an end-to-end process on Jira that is thoroughly documented.\nFinance integration & reporting: Deliver consolidated payroll figures to Finance through a global dashboard to support financial closing and accurate HR system data flow.\nTeam leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse payroll team across six countries, managing budgets, workload priorities, and performance.\n What you bring to the role:\nPayroll expertise: 7+ years of full-cycle payroll experience, with at least 3 years in a multi-country European setup.\nLeadership experience: 3+ years managing remotely collaborating, multi-country payroll teams.\nVendor & audit management: Proven ability to manage external providers, negotiate contracts, set SLAs, and lead compliance and audit processes confidently.\n Transformation mindset: Track record of improving payroll processes through automation, system implementations (e.g. Workday), or provider shifts.\n Technical & tool proficiency: Strong analytical skills using Google Workspace (Google Sheets) and Gemini for AI-assisted workflows. Experience with n8n or workflow automation tools and/or Workday integration is a plus.\nBackground & education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, HR, or a related field. Ideally backed-up by a relevant payroll certification.\nLanguages & communication: Fluency in both English and German is required. Proven communication and stakeholder management skills for both internal, managerial and external collaboration.\n What we offer:\nCompetitive salaries based on your professional experience.\nStable employment in a fast-growing international company.\nA cafeteria benefits system that lets you choose from options such as life insurance, private medical care, a sports card, cinema tickets, and more.\nTransportation services available for all warehouse employees.\nGuaranteed 26 vacation days per calendar year, regardless of seniority.\nAn extra day off to celebrate your birthday.\nMental Wellbeing Program - free and confidential mental and physical health support services for you and your immediate family, covering a wide range of personal and work-related issues.\nAUTODOC corporate discount for purchasing car parts at special rates for personal use.\nOpportunities for advancement, further training (over 650 courses on soft and hard skills available on our e-learning platform), and coaching.\nFree English, German, and Polish language classes.\nFlexible working hours and hybrid work model.\nWe celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.\nAUTODOC does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the AUTODOC Careers page or an AUTODOC social media post. Any legal offering in this regard as well as any Terms and Conditions of recruiters or employment agencies are expressly rejected by AUTODOC. AUTODOC will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited CVs. AUTODOC explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.\nThis job was posted on 12.10.2026, and is considering applications up to 6 weeks from this date.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6866,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Polish","level":"All levels","optional":false},{"language":"German","level":"All levels","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Cafeteria","Flexible schedule","Hybrid work","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Poland","iso":"PL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["E-commerce Platforms","Auto Parts & Accessories Retail"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T18:19:38Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":99,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.993,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:3","wave","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/autodoc-global-payroll-manager-mfd-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/autodoc-global-payroll-manager-mfd-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T20:26:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":31105,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5543},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5543"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fautodoc-global-payroll-manager-mfd-3"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fautodoc-global-payroll-manager-mfd-3"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fautodoc-global-payroll-manager-mfd-3"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/autodoc-global-payroll-manager-mfd-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fautodoc-global-payroll-manager-mfd-3"}]}