Senior Payroll Analyst

About the role

Deliveroo's Global Payroll team is looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Analyst to oversee payroll activity across its international markets. This is a senior operational role with responsibility for multiple countries, working with the Payroll Team, HR and People, Finance, Tax and external payroll providers to ensure employees are paid accurately, on time and in line with local legislation. The role also supports international payroll projects, process improvements, system implementations and automation.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned international entities and partner with local HR, People, Finance and Tax teams on accurate, timely inputs.
• Review, validate and approve payroll inputs and outputs, flagging discrepancies, trends and risks.
• Apply knowledge of legislation across multiple jurisdictions and hold external providers accountable for accuracy, timeliness and compliance.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex employee and stakeholder queries.
• Oversee payroll reconciliations, payment validation and statutory submissions, and analyse payroll data and reporting to find anomalies and control weaknesses.
• Maintain payroll governance and documentation, and identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate processes.
• Support and lead payroll projects such as system implementations, migrations, integrations and new entity onboarding, and contribute to payroll policies and controls.
• Share knowledge with Payroll Analysts, stay up to date with legislative changes and deputise for the Payroll Lead where required.

Required profile

• Significant experience in a payroll analyst or senior payroll position, ideally in a complex, international organisation.
• Hands-on international payroll experience; Italy and/or France payroll experience is highly desirable.
• Experience managing payroll across multiple countries and working with third-party payroll providers.
• Experience of process improvement, automation, and payroll projects, system implementations or migrations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and analytical skills, with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.

Required skills

• Payroll controls, reconciliations, payments, statutory reporting and compliance.
• Strong Excel skills and payroll data analysis.
• Knowledge of Italian and/or French payroll legislation is preferable.
• Experience with Workday/Cloudpay or other HR/payroll technology is preferred.