Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist — EMEA / Western Europe

About the Role

We’re looking for a Payroll Specialist to manage end-to-end payroll operations for assigned countries across EMEA, with a focus on Western Europe. You’ll work closely with local payroll providers and internal teams to deliver accurate, timely, and compliant payroll, resolve issues, and continually improve processes.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned countries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Serve as the day-to-day contact for local payroll providers and hold them accountable for agreed service levels, accuracy, and issue resolution.
• Manage payroll calendars, deadlines, inputs, approvals, and supporting documentation.
• Prepare, validate, and submit payroll changes, including new hires, terminations, compensation changes, bonuses, deductions, benefits, leave, and other adjustments.
• Review payroll calculations, registers, reports, and variance analyses for accuracy and completeness.
• Reconcile payroll results against HR, Finance, and other relevant source data; investigate and resolve discrepancies and significant variances.
• Partner with payroll providers and internal stakeholders to resolve payroll errors and employee-impacting issues.
• Work with providers to ensure country-specific statutory filings, payments, and reporting are completed on time.
• Coordinate off-cycle payments, corrections, year-end activities, audits, and other local payroll requirements.
• Maintain country-specific procedures, calendars, provider contacts, escalation paths, and process documentation.
• Collaborate with HR, Finance, Benefits, Compensation, Equity, Tax, Treasury, and other teams on payroll matters.
• Track recurring provider issues, identify root causes, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, reporting, and provider performance.
• Maintain appropriate controls, approvals, audit trails, and confidential employee records.
• Share knowledge and provide backup support across assigned countries to help ensure continuity of payroll operations.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience supporting payroll across EMEA, particularly Western Europe.
• Familiarity with country-specific payroll requirements and working with external payroll providers.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, especially when working across countries and teams.
• A high standard of discretion when handling confidential employee information.
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What We Offer

- Step into a collaborative work environment where ideas flourish, and teamwork propels us forward towards shared success.

- An attractive salary and benefits package.

- Bentley Impact Day: take a day off from work to volunteer with an organization of your choice.

- Celebrate milestone achievements and moments that matter through our colleague recognition award programs and our Bentley Achievers platform.

- A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.

- Be part of a company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.

Who We Are

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent’s software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations. Bentley Systems’ 5,200 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.