Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job DescriptionWe’re currently hiring for a Payroll Project Lead based in London to lead on our payroll growth and expansion projects for a 12 month fixed term contract. This role reports to the Global Head of Payroll managing and delivering payroll set up and implementation into expansion and growth markets. You will work closely with our vendors (including Workday, CloudPay and Deel), and work closely with People Operations, Reward, Finance and People Technology to ensure alignment across the project and implement new payrolls on time per the project.
You’ll be accountable for day to day project management, stakeholder engagement, creating project timelines and ensuring adherence to those and vendor management.
The Role:
- Support and implement payroll into new and existing markets
- Lead the payroll project work stream and ensure stakeholders are kept informed
- Partner with People teams to align on project goals
- Prepare payroll for go live and hand over to local teams
- Support hyper care period and act as point of escalation
- Vendor management, including performance management, ensuring Service Level Agreements are being met.
- Manage key vendor relationships (CloudPay and Deel) to ensure services meet Wise’s evolving needs and continuously evaluate the landscape to ensure Wise gets value for money
- Work closely with Reward, Finance, Legal, People Operations and regional leadership to align payroll delivery with business priorities.
About You:
- Proven project manager with experience managing large-scale, complex payroll projects
- Strong vendor management skills, with experience optimising external partnerships and driving performance to SLAs
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Pragmatic and solutions-focused, with the ability to balance compliance, efficiency and colleague experience
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth and ambiguous environment is essential
Additional InformationFor everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
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Skills Required
- Proven project manager with experience managing large-scale, complex payroll projects
- Experience implementing payroll into new and existing markets
- Strong vendor management skills, including optimising external partnerships and driving SLA performance
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Pragmatic, solutions-focused approach balancing compliance, efficiency and colleague experience
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth and ambiguous environment
- Experience working with payroll vendors/systems (e.g., Workday, CloudPay, Deel)
- Based in London
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Wise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all employees via time‑based RSUs/stock awards, aligning staff with company performance. This broad accessibility makes ownership a core part of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include a global minimum of 33–36 paid days off and a paid six‑week sabbatical after four years with a cash stipend. The sabbatical is positioned as a standard milestone benefit in addition to annual leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Wise commits to a minimum of 18 weeks’ fully paid parental leave for birth or adoption across many offices. Eligibility rules and tenure may apply by location while maintaining a companywide minimum standard.
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What We Do
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world's money. Launched in 2011, Wise is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable tech companies. In fiscal year 2025, Wise supported around 15.6 million people and businesses, processing over $185 billion in cross-border transactions and saving customers around $2.6 billion.
Why Work With Us
We’re truly global in who we are, how we work, and how we build. Everything we do is centred around creating a world of money that’s fast, easy, fair. And open to all. Everyone who works here owns a piece of Wise, from the work they do, to the stock they hold.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We expect new joiners in the office most days to build connections and learn from colleagues for their first six months. After that, most Wisers split their working week between the office and home, typically coming in at least 12 times a month.
