Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Payroll is often treated as a back office function, but in SaaS it becomes a core scaling system as headcount expands across countries and employment models. This role stands out because it sits at the intersection of global operations and compliance, with a stated scope covering EMEA payroll delivery across many entities and coordination with external payroll partners.
For a SaaS career path, the work builds durable operating experience: running repeatable monthly cycles, tightening controls, and improving process reliability while the business changes. The emphasis on standardisation, automation, documentation, and vendor management maps closely to how mature SaaS companies professionalise internal platforms as they grow. Exposure to cross functional partners such as HR, stock administration, recruiting, legal, and accounting also develops a practical understanding of how people data flows through finance systems and close processes.
This position is best suited to a manager who enjoys operational ownership and coaching, and who is comfortable balancing detail work with process design. It will appeal to professionals who like measurable outcomes, structured calendars, and stakeholder communication, and who want their expertise to translate across multi country SaaS environments and tooling.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
Snowflake is looking for an experienced Payroll Manager to be an integral part of the payroll operations for EMEA region. This position will be based in Pune (India). You are versatile, motivated, creative, intellectually curious, analytical collaborator and a strong communicator with leadership experience.
Reporting into the Sr. Manager, your main responsibility is to ensure smooth delivery of the day-to-day operations of the department. You will coach and mentor other team members in the payroll team, monitor their performance and make them accountable for their deliverables. You will provide ideas and help brainstorm on process standardization, automation, and improvement in all aspects of payroll to ensure their scalability and continuing effectiveness amid all the changes that Snowflake has been undergoing. You are good at creating and maintaining robust process documentation. You adhere to the internal controls as specified by Company policies. You are expected to collaborate with cross functional business partners. This is the perfect opportunity for someone like yourself who is self-sufficient, possesses a keen attention to detail, and has an unwavering desire for continuous personal development.
Responsibilities
Your scope includes EMEA payroll operations (~20+ entities)
Your primary focus will be major entities in these regions such as UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, Poland, along with other EMEA region entities.
Working closely with existing international payroll partners to ensure accurate and on-time payroll processing. Overall delivery of end-to-end payroll operations including:
Provide support, and direction to the payroll team leaders and members on the team.
Work with team for preparing and adhering to a schedule / payroll calendar and agreeing the timelines with payroll vendors and other internal stakeholders.
Thorough review of the payroll reconciliations. Includes but not limited to performing payroll analysis such as total gross payroll to net payment, average paid per headcount by country, and comparison of analysis to prior period
Prepare payroll funding forecasts and making sure the payroll payments are delivered accurately and on time.
Support monthly/quarterly accounting close activities, account maintenance and reconciliations, financial reporting and variance analysis, etc.
Provide hand off to the accounting teams post payroll close to ensure accounting of payroll within the timelines prescribed by the close calendar.
Ensure compliance with local jurisdictions for activities within the payroll domain including statutory filings and key internal and external annual audits.
Monitor and measure the SLAs as agreed with the payroll vendor. Raise matters where there are slippages and recommend corrective action to management.
Working closely with other functional teams (e.g. HR, Stock Administration, People Operations, Benefits, Recruiting, Legal and accounting) to streamline cross-functional processes.
Provide constructive feedback to team members.
Help with Quarterly and annual performance review of team members.
Actively participate in identifying potential payroll vendors, drive meetings, transition efforts to migrate payroll to the payroll vendor.
Identify opportunities to automate manual processes. Recommend process improvements including assisting with the design and implementation of internal control measures to ensure proper payment authorizations and segregation of duties.
Providing excellent payroll support to employees and cross-functional teams by addressing inquiries, concerns, and requests.
Creating and/or maintaining payroll documentation as it relates to processing, operational procedures, compliance, and other payroll-related matters.
Handle external and internal audits for the area of payroll.
Support other regions such as LATAM, and APAC as per business requirements.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, or Accounting
10+ years of relevant and progressive payroll experience; public company payroll experience required. Minimum 4 years of team management experience
Experience leading payroll function for multi country payroll delivery setup.
Experience of payroll transitions / migrations will be a plus.
Exposure to countries on EMEA and APAC side is required. AMER payroll experience not required however it can be an added advantage.
Experience working with international payroll platforms such as ADP, EY, Cloudpay, or other global payroll platforms preferred.
Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Highly proficient in utilizing various computer applications such as Microsoft Excel (Pivots, V/H Lookups) and Google Suite apps (e.g. Google Sheets)
Familiarity with Workday HCM and Workday Financials is a plus.
Understanding of accounting, taxation, and finance concepts as it relates to payroll.
Possesses in-depth knowledge of payroll related compliance requirements.
Adaptable to a fast-changing work environment; able to deliver accurate and on-time payrolls regardless of circumstances.
Excellent interpersonal skills
Ability to manage through change and to lead change.
Attention to detail, organized and thorough with the desire for continuous improvement.
Proactive and problem-solving attitude
Good command on English speaking and writing
Adapts quickly to changes in a dynamic organizational structure and business processes.
Flexible with work hours
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
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