Payroll Finance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Bulgaria.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete payroll processes across various countries.

• Manage payroll schedules, data inputs, approvals, and outputs in collaboration with Shared Services Payroll and external providers.

• Review and confirm employee information, contractual modifications, variable compensation, and regulatory updates prior to processing.

• Analyze Gross-to-Net reports, pinpoint discrepancies, investigate variances, and resolve issues before payroll finalization.

• Act as a liaison between HR, Shared Services Payroll, Finance, and external payroll providers.

• Stay informed about country-specific payroll laws, statutory obligations, and practices.

• Uphold payroll controls, document procedures, oversee service delivery, and ensure compliance.

• Identify enhancements to payroll processes, data quality, controls, and standardization efforts.

• Reconcile payroll expenses with budgets, forecasts, and financial records.

• Assist in month-end closing and ensure accurate payroll-cost financial reporting.

• Generate global payroll and staff-cost reports for Finance and business stakeholders.

• Collaborate with FP&A on headcount-cost analysis for budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making.

• Create payroll reports, dashboards, and reconciliations.

• Support payroll and staff-cost audits as well as internal control activities.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in global payroll, payroll operations, HR operations, Finance, or a comparable analytical position.

• Experience in coordinating payroll activities across multiple countries with Shared Services teams or outsourced payroll providers.

• Understanding of payroll processes, payroll controls, and statutory compliance.

• Knowledge of payroll regulations in Spain, the UK, and Mexico is a plus.

• Strong analytical and numerical abilities.

• Capability to interpret payroll data, recognize anomalies, and conduct reconciliations.

• Exceptional attention to detail, data integrity, accuracy, and compliance focus.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple payroll schedules, priorities, and stakeholders across different countries.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel.

• Experience with HRIS, payroll systems, and reporting tools is highly desirable.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Proactive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented mindset.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

🏝️ Benefits

• 20 working days of paid leave annually (pro-rated in the first year based on the start date).

• Additional day off for birthdays each year.

• Refer a Friend Scheme with a bonus for hiring referred candidates.

• Option to extend the standard 1-hour lunch break by 30 minutes while keeping the same daily working hours.

• Flexibility to work from anywhere.

• Up to 2 days off annually for charitable initiatives.

• Annual wellbeing calendar featuring dedicated wellbeing sessions and initiatives.