Senior Payroll Specialist

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their life easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission.

Job Description

We’re currently hiring for a Senior Payroll Specialist to join our global Payroll Team based In our Budapest  office

We’re looking for a payroll superstar, with a keen eye for accuracy, attention to detail and a desire to share your payroll expertise and knowledge with our Global Payroll Team.

Reporting to the Payroll Lead, you’ll have above-average understanding of the 

EMEA region payroll, its overall function, and how our team provides excellent service to others. You’ll be responsible for the accurate, effective, and timely processing of your payroll for each pay period.

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the world’s first platform to offer true multi-currency banking. We’re 3000+ Wisers strong, with over 90 nationalities working in 25+ locations around the globe! We’re looking for a Payroll Specialist who lives our values, will help grow our culture, and drive our mission forward! 🚀

Your mission

This exciting role will join a team responsible for the overall global payroll process, including compliance, internal audit, and reconciliation across multiple countries for Wise. You’ll complete a variety of daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and ad-hoc tasks to ensure your payrolls are processed in accordance ahead of payroll deadlines.

This role will initially include partnering with our third-party payroll vendor and their advisors to strive for accuracy, reduce errors, and process payroll more efficiently. You will partner to develop robust & detailed processes to ensure the execution of payroll in an effective, efficient, and timely manner. Cross-training will be key!

This amazing role will also participate by providing a variety of deliverables, including global projects, pre-post payroll journals, internal audits, and more. Also, you will provide input regarding team goals, KPIs, efficiencies, process improvements, and future optimization of our payroll team - all while providing outstanding customer service. Always.

 

The specifics:

• You’ll be working as a part of a wider Global Payroll Team, servicing 25+ countries using Workday (HRIS), while focusing specifically on our UK & Hungarian Wisers

• Support on various ongoing payroll projects.

• You’ll prepare, double-check, cross-check, review and analyse payrolls according to the established deadlines

• You’ll be completely responsible to ensure the timely submission of your payroll inputs to our third party payroll provider

• You’ll ensure payrolls balance to your inputs - always

• Managing first and second line queries from employees, other teams and external providers, ensuring that SLAs are met and issues are resolved efficiently.

• You’ll be responsible for all documentation within your historical payroll files

• Continuously drive for process improvement and lead future optimisations of the payroll area. Recommending new approaches, monitoring policy and make procedure changes towards continuous improvement within the team 

• Continue to increase Subject Matter Expertise on your allocated locations, on all payroll and legislative matters, providing support, as needed, to others

• Develop robust & detailed processes to ensure the execution of payroll in an accurate, effective, efficient and timely manner.

• Develop and maintain partnerships with payroll and tax vendors, driving accuracy and compliance in all payroll related processes.

• Work with the Payroll team and the Senior Payroll Lead to provide additional processing/transaction support, as needed

Compliance:

• You’ll work to ensure compliance across all locations globally, to include International, Federal, State, and local payroll tax laws. All the while, meet