EMEA & Americas Payroll Manager

Why Join DAZN?

DAZN is the global leader in sports streaming, delivering live and on-demand content to millions of fans across 25 countries. Behind the action, our People and Finance teams power a fast-moving, global organisation that continues to grow at pace. 

As our EMEA & Americas Payroll Manager, payroll processing for around 1,500 employees across multiple countries, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency at every step. You’ll lead a small team and partner closely with HR, Finance, and Legal to ensure smooth delivery, continuous improvement, and exceptional service for our people. 

This is a hands-on, leadership role ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic, multinational environment and enjoys balancing operational excellence with process transformation. 


The Role 

You’ll manage the end-to-end payroll process across the EMEA and Americas regions, overseeing vendor relationships, ensuring compliance with local legislation, and maintaining governance. You’ll lead and develop a team of payroll administrators, acting as the key escalation point for complex queries and driving standardisation and efficiency across multiple jurisdictions. 

In addition to operational delivery, you’ll play a critical role in payroll transformation initiatives — helping DAZN enhance systems, processes, and controls as we continue to scale globally. 

Department

30-653 - HR - Rewards

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

UK - London

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Manage accurate and timely payroll processing across the EMEA and Americas regions, ensuring compliance with local laws and internal policies. 
• Lead, support, and develop a small team of payroll administrators, coordinating with in-country vendors to deliver seamless payroll operations. 
• Oversee executive payrolls, maintaining strict confidentiality, accuracy, and governance. 
• Validate all payroll inputs — including new hires, leavers, variable pay, benefits, and statutory deductions — and perform variance checks before approvals. 
• Ensure full compliance with tax, social security, and labour regulations while maintaining up-to-date SOPs and audit readiness. 
• Act as the main escalation point for payroll queries, partnering closely with HR, Finance, and Legal to resolve issues quickly and effectively. 
• Manage relationships with external payroll providers, monitoring performance, service levels, and accuracy of delivery. 
• Produce clear and accurate payroll reports and insights for stakeholders, supporting business visibility and decision-making. 

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years’ experience in payroll supervisory or management role 
• UK payroll experience essential; additional EMEA or Americas experience highly desirable. 
• In-depth knowledge of payroll regulations, tax legislation, and statutory reporting. 
• Experience managing outsourced payroll vendors and systems (e.g. ADP, Safeguard, Oracle). 
• Proven ability to oversee multiple countries with complex requirements. 
• Strong analytical and Excel skills with confidence working with data and reports. 
• Experience leading or mentoring a payroll team. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. 
• High attention to detail, integrity, and discretion when handling confidential information. 
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, multinational environment. 

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. 

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. 

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:  

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. 

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. 

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. 

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. 

Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.