Senior Payroll Analyst

About the role

The Senior Payroll Analyst will play a key role in the delivery and continuous improvement of payroll across international markets. This operational role involves overseeing payroll activity, ensuring accurate and timely payments, and maintaining compliance with local legislation. The successful candidate will partner with internal teams and external providers to manage complex payroll activities and drive process automation.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned international entities.
• Partner with local HR, People Operations, Finance and Tax teams to ensure payroll inputs are complete, accurate and delivered within agreed timelines.
• Review, validate and approve payroll inputs and outputs, identifying discrepancies, trends and potential risks before payroll is finalised.
• Apply a strong understanding of legislation across multiple jurisdictions, statutory requirements and payroll practices, ensuring processes remain compliant and appropriately controlled.
• Work closely with external payroll providers, holding them accountable for accuracy, timeliness, compliance and service delivery.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex employee and stakeholder payroll queries, providing clear guidance and appropriate resolutions.
• Perform and oversee payroll reconciliations, payment validation and statutory submissions, ensuring appropriate controls are completed and documented.
• Proactively identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate payroll processes, reducing manual intervention and operational risk.

Required skills

• Payroll
• International payroll
• Payroll compliance
• Payroll reconciliation
• Stakeholder management
• Excel

Nice to have

• Italian payroll
• French payroll
• Workday
• Cloudpay
• Process automation

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Family benefits
• Financial benefits
• Community benefits
• Growth opportunities

About the Company

Deliveroo is a technology-driven business in the food industry with a mission to make food more convenient and accessible. The company is now part of DoorDash, operating as a global team focused on reach, scale, and ambition.