International Payroll Manager

About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About The Role:

As our International Payroll Manager at Notion, you will have the opportunity to manage the day to day payroll processing for all of our employees in the EMEA region as well as be additional support to our APAC payroll operations. You will ensure all Notino’s in EMEA are paid accurately and on time as well as shape and improve the existing procedures and systems in a fast changing, exciting environment.

What You'll Achieve:

• Prepare and reconcile the monthly EMEA and APAC payrolls using the HCM system and local payroll vendors across all regions (Ireland, India, Japan, Korea, Australia, and EOR)

• Liaise in local time zone of the payroll support team to ensure the accuracy, compliance, and timely processing of payroll

• Collaborate closely with cross functional teams (People Ops, Benefits, and Accounting) and external payroll partners to identify and improve payroll workflows

• Provide excellent employee experience as the first point of contact for all EMEA and APAC payroll inquires

• Process accurately and timely submission of all one-time payments (bonus, commissions, or severances), leave of absence amounts, fringe benefits, BIK, Bike to Work, and pension contributions

• Work closely with the International Corporate Accounting team to ensure payroll net pay, taxes, and pension payments are processed timely with the local bank and/or vendor

• Own month end preparations and reconciliation of EMEA/APAC payroll journal entries

• Assist with the preparation of payroll related month end balance sheet reconciliations

• Generate and analyze payroll reports using existing systems and data

• Serve as additional support to the APAC Payroll Analyst

• Complete ad-hoc tasks and other duties as assigned

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• 7+ years of EMEA payroll processing experience for small to midsize organizations

• Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll compliance and understanding of local payroll tax and labor laws

• Proven experience managing vendors and ability to quickly adapt to new local payroll systems

• Ability to self-manage and prioritize projects to completion in a fast-paced environment

• Highly Proficient in Excel (xlookups, vlookups, pivot tables, and formulas)

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with payroll system or vendor implementation

• Experience with NetSuite as well as creating and reconciling payroll journal entries

• Experience running APAC and/or America’s payroll

• Experience with Workday HCM

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $170,000.

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