Payroll Finance Integration & Transformation Manager

Career Area:

Human Resources

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Job Title:

Payroll Finance Integration & Transformation Manager Salary: 79,424 + Dependent Upon Experience

Location:

Peterborough, UK Benefits: 25 days annual leave + 8 Bank Holidays Up to 20% bonus

Car Allowance Monthly Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%
Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution

Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase About Caterpillar Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future.

Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Position Summary As Senior Manager, Payroll, you will lead the connection between Payroll and Finance, ensuring payroll data flows accurately and efficiently to Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and other downstream stakeholders.

Today, many of these processes rely on manual workarounds, reconciliations, and intervention. You will play a critical role in transforming how payroll information moves through the organization by simplifying processes, driving automation and strengthening controls. Your work will ensure payroll data is reliable, scalable, and readily consumable by Finance teams across the enterprise.

This is a highly visible role that sits at the center of the company's global payroll transformation and requires strong partnership across Payroll, Finance, HR, and IT functions.

What You'll Do
• Govern the end-to-end payroll-to-finance process, ensuring payroll information is accurate, timely, and usable by Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and other downstream stakeholders.
• Simplify and modernize how payroll data moves across the organization, reducing manual effort and improving data quality.
• Champion automation, standardization, and stronger controls to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Partner with Finance leaders to resolve operational challenges and implement scalable solutions ensuring payroll accounting, reconciliations, funding activities, and compliance requirements are executed accurately and effectively.
• Serve as a key leader in the company's multi-year global payroll transformation, helping shape future-state processes and technology solutions.

What Success Looks Like
• Payroll data flows seamlessly to Finance with minimal manual intervention.
• Payroll accounting, tax reporting, and treasury funding processes are accurate, efficient, and well-controlled.
• Manual reconciliations and workarounds are eliminated through automation and process improvements.
• Finance teams spend less time chasing data and more time using it.
• Global payroll transformation initiatives deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

What You Will Have Business Process Improvement:
Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying,…