Payroll Director

Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people. 

We are looking for a Payroll Director to join us our HR team to oversee payroll operations across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with relevant international labour laws and payroll tax regulations.

You will partner with our third-party payroll providers, while ensuring payroll systems and processes are efficient, scalable, and accurate, and providing leadership and strategic direction to support business objectives in a global environment.

This role is based in our London office, although we would consider a remote position, and reports to the Chief People Officer, International.

You must have extensive payroll knowledge and a robust understanding of global payroll systems and processes, including Australia, France, Italy and UK. You be used to working in a growing business, ideally having used Workday.

If you are interested to learn more, please apply via the link below or reach out to Claire Sibley at Claire.sibley@everestglobal.com.

Please note that we are not using agencies for this opportunity.

Everest Values and Behaviours:  

Our recruitment practices assess candidates’ behaviours, competences and capability to ensure they are fit to fulfil their roles and carry out their duties with a high degree of integrity and commitment. Through our organisation values and colleague behaviours, we encourage cultivating a positive ethical culture, meeting our regulatory requirements and conduct standards by ensuring clear lines of responsibility, accountability, and a focus on fair customer outcomes.

This includes employees complying with the PRA/FCA SM&CR Conduct Rules, at all times, and for those employees holding PCF and CF roles under the CBI Fitness and Probity Regime, complying with the CBI Common Conduct Standards.

Our values are the ideals we aspire to so that we can live up to the promise of our brand and underwrite opportunity for all of our stakeholders. They are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions, and behaviours. The role holder will be required to embrace the Everest Core Values: Talent, Thoughtful assumption of risk, Execution, Efficiency, Humility, Leadership, Collaboration, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Our behaviors define how we operate: Respect Everyone, Pursue Better, Lead By Example, Own our Outcomes, and Win Together. All colleagues are held accountable for embodying our behaviors and are evaluated on these as part of their performance.