Senior Payroll Analyst (Remote, UK)

Grafana is looking for a Senior Payroll Analyst to join our Finance team. Reporting to the International Payroll Manager, this is an opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and play a driving role in our payroll operations. 

We’re scaling quickly and this role is perfect for someone who enjoys looking for opportunities to advance their skills in a fulfilling environment. The candidate should expect to leverage current skill-sets while also focusing on learning quickly and adding value to the current processes.

Responsibilities:

• Payroll processing (HC 450), we work with external payroll provider (ActivPayroll):
• Australia
• Austria
• Canada (semi-monthly)
• France
• Germany
• India
• Netherlands
• Singapore
• Spain
• Sweden
• UK
• Input preparation – review integration data and add anything missing onto manual input sheet
• Answer vendor queries about input/payroll
• Output preparation – reconciliation and controls to be completed in a given template (salary, benefits, one time payments, proration review)
• Send reconciliation for review and approval to payroll manager 
• Send bank file/ manual payment details to GL team to complete fundings
• Employee queries – handle employee questions, support and issues (we always try go the extra mile if we can) 
• Frequent collaboration with other teams on various topics (PeopleOps, benefits, accounting, integration, project teams etc)
• Audits – gather data for audits, go through reconciliations and payroll reports from the past periods to handle issues etc – overall problem solving when it comes to incorrect payroll processing of some elements etc 
• Invoice processing (direct contractors, HC 150) – invoice review and approval
• Handle research / review on various topics related to payroll processing
• Overall process improvement – any manual processes to be changed to automatic
• HR system – Workday

Requirements:

• International payroll experience, working with external vendors (preferably at least 3 countries)
• Ability to accurately process all payrolls (we always aim for 100%)
• Very organized
• Quick learner
• Logical thinking and clear understanding
• Detail oriented and quick 
• Problem solving (up for challenges, wants to resolve issues which don’t have clear resolution; dig deep and get to the bottom of issues)
• Advanced excel skills (vlookups and pivots are crucial)
• Happy to work in a start-up environment with frequent changes

Nice to have: 

• Process documentation …