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 / manuals experience

• Recent Workday experience 

• Additional language

• Payroll controls set up, improvement

• Benefits processing and rules experience 

In the United Kingdom, the base compensation range for this role is £53,000 - £64,000.  Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

About Grafana Labs:

There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

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