Payroll Manager

Do you want to play a key role in a fast-growing biotech environment where quality, innovation and patient impact are central? As a Payroll Manager at Legend Biotech, you ensure a flawless, timely and fully compliant payroll for Belgium and Ireland. You combine operational excellence with continuous optimization and lead a team that makes a difference for our employees every day.

What can you expect?

• Taking full ownership of the payroll for Belgium and Ireland and ensuring that every payroll run proceeds flawlessly, correctly and compliantly — month after month.
• Validating all payroll inputs, checks and calculations and safeguarding data quality within HRIS, payroll and T&A.
• Translating social legislation and changes effortlessly into clear payroll processes and clear internal guidelines.
• Building strong collaborations with external payroll and T&A partners and guaranteeing an efficient, qualitative and transparent service provision.
• Acting as the go-to expert for complex payroll cases, performing root-cause analyses and ensuring sustainable solutions.
• Bringing calm and reliability to a complex shift and T&A environment and ensuring that employees are correctly compensated for what they do.
• Monitoring structural issues around shift complexity and proactively improving processes and controls.
• Continuously looking ahead and optimizing processes, systems and controls to make payroll scalable, future proof and less dependent on manual actions.
• Coaching, motivating and growing a payroll team as a people leader, with a strong focus on quality, ownership and collaboration.
• Working as a strategic partner with HR, Finance and the business and advising on the payroll impact of changes and projects.

Who are we looking for?

Education

• Master’s degree in HR, Finance, Business or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of Belgian payroll experience in a medium to large company.
• Strong experience with shift‑based populations and complex T&A environments
• Prior team leadership or coordination experience within payroll teams.

Languages

• Fluent in Dutch and English.

Strengths

• Strong knowledge of payroll processes, controls, and reporting.
• Solid understanding of Belgian social legislation (Belgian legislation required, Irish legislation is a plus).
• Experience with Sox audit compliancy is a plus.
• Strong analytical ability, accurate, solution-oriented and hands-on.
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management.
• Integrity, discretion and a pragmatic way of explaining complex topics.

Expertise

• Process optimisation, standardisation, and (semi‑)automation.
• System ownership of payroll, payroll interfaces and T&A.

What do we offer you?

• A meaningful role in a growing biotech company where your work has a real impact.
• A supportive and innovative work environment that values learning and personal development.
• The opportunity to work with colleagues from all over the world.
• A permanent contract with an attractive salary package and many fringe benefits (statutory vacation, meal vouchers, group & hospitalization insurance, year‑end and performance bonus).
• Many fun and informal team and company activities.

About Legend Biotech

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to developing, manufacturing, and commercializing innovative and life-saving cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and life-threatening diseases, such as cancer. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey. Legend Biotech now employs over 2,400 people across six global manufacturing sites. Two of these sites are in Ghent: Obelisc (Technology Park Zwijnaarde) and Tech Lane (Eilandje Zwijnaarde). In Ghent, Legend Biotech focuses on the production of advanced CAR-T cell therapies for the treatment of multiple myeloma, in close collaboration with Johnson & Johnson.