Payroll Lead

Are you an experienced leader in payroll? Join our team!

Wolt is a Finnish technology company founded in 2014 with a mission to transform the way people can order food from restaurants. The People team at Wolt currently consists of 100+ HR, Payroll, and Talent Acquisition professionals located in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Berlin, Tel-Aviv, Tbilisi, Budapest, Zagreb, and Tokyo.

We always strive for global scalability, modern processes and automation, and therefore we prioritize systems development in every area of the business. With this attitude, during 2021 the People team has launched platforms like Workday, Altshare, and Charles Schwab, while simultaneously beginning the rollout of Quinyx and changing our payroll vendor to ADP.

Our new Payroll Talent Hub in Budapest consists of regional Payroll Specialists, with end-to-end understanding of payroll processes and ideally payroll experience from both in-house and outsourced payroll to provide first-class experience to all of our employees.

Your key tasks and responsibilities:

• Leading a team of Payroll Specialists and working in collaboration with our outsourced payroll vendor to ensure that our global teams are paid accurately and on time every month.
• Work with the Head of Global Payroll on our service delivery model, ensuring that we maintain sufficient capacity and capability for all payroll processes, minimizing “single point of failure” risks.
• Deliver a world class employee payroll experience while resolving any issues that arise with root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Work with the Payroll Operational Excellence team to build a modern, end-to-end and scalable payroll process across HR data, payroll data and Finance data, and develop global payroll key performance indicators, and service level agreement metrics to measure process health.
• Ensuring payroll data integrity across our integrated HR and payroll systems, and identification and fixing of any errors.
• Design and implement a framework for payroll documentation.
• Build payroll policies, practices and controls, and monitor compliance of country regulations to meet payroll and tax obligations.
• Designing a world class payroll query and request management offering for our employees and Team Leads.
• Assist audit related activities when needed

Requirements

• You have a strong understanding of core payroll management and processes across multiple geographies.
• Vendor- and client-side payroll leadership experience would be considered a strong advantage.
• Experience and passion towards payroll and payroll-related technology and processes.
• Hands-on experience of payroll process design is considered a strong advantage.
• Previous experience with global payroll and Workday (or other enterprise HR systems) is considered a strong advantage.
• You are a strong communicator, with high working proficiency in English.
• You enjoy taking ownership and solving problems proactively.
• You know how to use excel proficiently.
• You work well in a team and are completely comfortable collaborating remotely and dynamically using digital tools such as Slack and Zoom.