Payroll Manager Netherlands

, Netherlands

Job Family Group:

Human Resources Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

November 13, 2026

Business Unit:

Human Resources

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

 

What’s the role

 

As the Payroll Manager in Netherlands, you are expected to be passionate about rethinking how we do Global Payroll at Shell and implementing solutions that ensure we pay our employees efficiently, consistently and at the highest standards, then this is your chance! You will be instrumental in the ongoing roll-out of the Global Payroll Strategy across Global Payroll Organization, managing change and driving process excellence and standards within the NL payroll processes.

 

Reporting to the Regional Manager EU & Outsourced Payroll, you are going to be a key part of the European payroll team, a team of forward thinking and engaging professionals that love to work in a high-paced global environment. Together with our Global Payroll Leadership Team, Payroll colleagues and key stakeholders, we will re-define, standardize, and operationalize the new solutions for Shell’s Global Payroll across our 70+ countries to ensure a world-class pay experience.

 

What you’ll be doing

 

• Accountable for all payroll activities, which includes the support and stabilization of the Global Payroll Strategy roll out, ensuring the new process/technology are ‘fit for purpose’ within the Netherlands.
• Monitor payroll processing in the Netherlands, ensuring accurate and timely payroll, including base pay, stock compensation, payroll taxes, pension, statutory and supplemental benefits.
• In charge of the execution of internal controls that assure Shell Netherlands Payroll’s ongoing compliance in an increasingly complex statutory and regulatory landscape across Payroll, Policy, Tax, Legal, IT, Finance and HR Team.
• Engage with multiple local senior stakeholders, regulators & tax authorities.
• Lead and support all team members through the implementation of all change impacting the NL payroll (including the Global Payroll Strategy).
• Drive team performance to build a high performing culture, value creation, employee engagement and develop organizational capabilities to achieve the desired future-state.
• Foster innovation of ideas and initiatives in team and with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement to streamline and optimize operational effectiveness.

What you bring 

• Significant experience leading or working within a payroll team, with in-depth operational knowledge of Dutch (NL) payroll processes.
• Experience with SAP Payroll is desirable.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of Dutch payroll legislation, statutory requirements, tax regulations, and compliance obligations.
• Strong understanding of operational risks, with proven experience in identifying potential risks, implementing effective controls, and driving continuous improvement to ensure compliance and operational integrity.
• Proven leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organization.
• A forward-thinking, solution-oriented approach, with a proactive attitude towards identifying opportunities, resolving challenges, and driving operational excellence.
• Excellent planning, prioritization, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results within tight deadlines.
• Sound judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage challenges while protecting the organisation’s values, reputation, and commercial interests.
• Experience managing external vendors and payroll service providers.
• Proven experience leading and delivering payroll projects and process improvements.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing colleagues to achieve team objectives.
• Fluency in Dutch, both written and spoken.
• Energy, enthusiasm, resilience, and a collaborative approach, with a positive and forward-thinking attitude.

 

What we offer

 

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

 

Shell in The Netherlands

 

The Netherlands is one of the two founding countries of the company. Here 9,380 employees (March 2024) of more than 100 nationalities jointly work to provide the country with energy for today, for tomorrow and for you.

 

Energy for today

The refinery at Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam (Pernis) - Europe’s largest - is facing a cleaner future with less carbon emissions. Chemicals Park Moerdijk is transitioning to a circular future. Shell operates multiple wind and solar farms in the Netherlands. Both onshore and offshore, Shell is exploring for and producing oil and gas via the Nederlandsche Aardolie Maatschappij, NAM (50% Shell, 50% ExxonMobil). Shell is the market leader in transport fuels. Dutch motorists take 3 billion litres of fuel from 570 Shell retail stations (May 2024) annually, while thousands of Shell's own fast EV charge points and Shell Ubitricity normal charge points are being installed as we speak.

 

Energy for tomorrow

At the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA), research is conducted into low CO2 energy technologies and sustainable solutions for energy and chemicals. Near Rotterdam Shell builds Europe's biggest green hydrogen plant of the continent. From Amsterdam and The Hague, Shell Nederland leads the transition of the corporation to a more sustainable future, with 6.5 billion euros invested in solar panels, wind farms, green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, EV charging and other groundbreaking solutions for the future.

 

Energy for you

Even after the company HQ moved to London in January 2022, Shell's commitment to the Netherlands remains very strong. The Hague still housing the headquarters of three of Shell's business divisions, and Rotterdam stays a key trading, marketing and sales hub for Shell products. Combined Shell in the Netherlands works to bring its wide range of energy products as close as possible to you as an energy consumer. This includes a Shell Impact Fund to make the energy transition closer to people with financial challenges, this includes EV chargers on the corner of your street via our daughter company Ubitricity and this includes keeping the country warm in winter with Liquid Natural Gas.

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