Teams at Planet (weareplanet.com)

Partners with executive and functional leaders on budgeting, forecasting, cost management, workforce planning, investment appraisal, business cases, and financial governance. Provides financial insight, variance analysis, and decision support while challenging spending and resource allocation. Improves reporting, planning, and forecasting through automation, analytics, and AI-enabled tools. Maintains financial controls and communicates complex analysis to senior stakeholders.

Designs, builds, and scales high-performance backend services using Node.js, MongoDB, and REST APIs for Angular applications. Responsibilities include data modeling, query optimization, caching, scalable system architecture, API performance, and AI-enabled data integrations. The role develops stateless services, supports analytics and machine learning use cases, and contributes to AI, LLM, data pipeline, and RAG-style capabilities in a hybrid cloud environment.

Manage international payroll processing across assigned countries, including vendor relationships, payroll data validation, results review, approvals, payments, stakeholder communication, and process improvements. Provide employee and supplier support, participate in payroll transition projects, back up other specialists, and assume Payroll Manager responsibilities when needed.