Payroll Analyst - Italy

About the role

As an Italy Payroll Analyst, you will administer and oversee the end-to-end payroll process for Deliveroo's Italy population. You will partner with HR, Finance, Employment Tax, Legal and external payroll providers to deliver accurate, compliant and timely payroll. This is an individual contributor role acting as the Italy Payroll Subject Matter Expert, covering Workday and CloudPay, and supporting global payroll initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Italy payroll process from data preparation and validation through to review, reconciliation and sign-off.
• Act as the Italy Payroll SME on Italian payroll legislation, taxation, statutory requirements and best practice.
• Oversee outsourced payroll processing with CloudPay, ensuring SLAs, controls and quality standards are met.
• Ensure accurate and timely processing of statutory payments, contributions and filings such as social security and income tax.
• Review and reconcile payroll outputs, resolve discrepancies and prepare payroll journals and finance reporting.
• Maintain payroll controls, governance and an audit trail, and drive automation and process improvements.
• Support Workday and payroll implementation, migration, testing and integration projects.
• Share knowledge with colleagues and support regional and global payroll initiatives.

Required profile

• 3+ years of progressive payroll experience, including significant experience with Italian payroll and statutory compliance.
• Experience managing or overseeing outsourced payroll providers, preferably in a multinational.
• Proven ability to manage the full payroll lifecycle and understand payroll controls, governance and audit requirements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across HR, Finance, Tax, Legal and external vendors.
• Fluent Italian and strong English are highly desirable.

Required skills

• Strong technical knowledge of Italian payroll legislation, employment taxation and social security.
• Advanced Excel, including detailed reconciliations and analysis of large datasets.
• Experience with Workday and/or CloudPay is preferred but not essential.
• Desirable: experience supporting payroll system implementations, integrations, testing or transformation projects.