The Role
Lead the international payments team responsible for processing payroll-related salaries, statutory obligations, and third-party transactions. Oversee payment authorization, documentation, reconciliations, investigations, banking transaction allocation, account monitoring, reporting, client collaboration, compliance, and process improvement. Manage team performance, development, and service delivery while maintaining accuracy and operational excellence during high-volume periods.
Summary Generated by Built In
As the International Payments Lead, you will be responsible for leading and developing a high-performing team of Payments Coordinators and Senior Coordinators.
You’ll oversee the delivery of a critical global service that supports payroll-related payments, including salaries, statutory obligations, and third-party transactions, within a complex, compliance-driven environment.
Your leadership will ensure operational excellence, client satisfaction, and continuous improvement across all aspects of international payments.
You’ll oversee the delivery of a critical global service that supports payroll-related payments, including salaries, statutory obligations, and third-party transactions, within a complex, compliance-driven environment.
Your leadership will ensure operational excellence, client satisfaction, and continuous improvement across all aspects of international payments.
On a typical day, it looks like this...
- Overseeing and authorising payment processing across multiple client bank accounts
- Ensuring the accuracy and completeness of payment documentation and reconciliations
- Leading investigations into complex or unfamiliar transactions and resolving escalations
- Monitoring account balances and turnover, and reporting to internal and external stakeholders
- Managing the daily upload and allocation of banking transactions into the finance system
- Providing strategic leadership and day-to-day guidance to the Payments team
- Driving team performance, engagement, and professional development
- Collaborating with internal departments and clients to ensure service excellence
- Identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency and compliance
Does this sound like you?
- Be a confident and inspiring leader, capable of motivating and developing a diverse team
- Communicate effectively across global teams and build strong client relationships
- Bring deep expertise in international payments and financial operations
- Thrive under pressure, especially during high-volume periods such as month-end
- Demonstrate strong people management skills and a passion for team growth
- Be proactive and solutions-focused, always looking for ways to improve service delivery
- Uphold the highest standards of accuracy, compliance, and customer service
About
Our Story From our entrepreneurial origins as a founder led start up, to a high performing global player working with some of the world's most recognisable brands, activpayroll has both a fantastic history and masses of future potential. Our story began in 2001, when our founder saw a gap in the market to support the oil and gas industry. Today, we are a leading global professional service organisation, providing integrated global and domestic payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services, global HR services and online HR people management tools to over 1,200 companies in more than 150 countries worldwide. We’ve Got YouHiring people is more than an investment of time and money – it’s an investment of trust. You trust us to help you realise your fullest potential, work with brilliant people and recognise your achievements. In return, we trust your abilities, we trust your instincts and are fully behind you to deliver the great work you are capable of - empowering you to make the tough calls and valuing your opinions, ideas and abilities.
Skills Required
- Leadership and people management skills, including motivating, developing, and guiding a diverse team
- Effective communication across global teams and ability to build strong client relationships
- Expertise in international payments and financial operations
- Ability to work effectively under pressure during high-volume periods
- Proactive, solutions-focused approach to improving service delivery
- Strong attention to accuracy, compliance, and customer service
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The Company
What We Do
Created to let your business work seamlessly in multiple countries by giving you complete clarity and confidence, activpayroll is global payroll, international payments, global mobility and HR in one. Pay your people compliantly, on time, every time, worldwide. Take control with accessible tech. Team up with global tax specialists to stay one step ahead of legislation and compliance. Strengthen your workforce with our strategic HR specialists, and work with a partner that gets your vision of global clarity. Wherever in the world your business takes you, we’ve got you.
