Payroll Specialist

Company Description

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to home or to the office. Our local commerce platform makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local commerce platform to retail software and financial solutions, as well as operates its own grocery stores under the brand Wolt Market. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 27 countries today, 23 of which are with the Wolt product and brand. 

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done.
You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.
We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

Job Description

Are you an experienced Payroll Specialist with experience in outsourced international payrolls, and a good eye for overall payroll development? Do you want to be part of building and scaling our payroll operations in a truly global tech organization? If this sounds like you, then we’d love to chat!
Role background
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.
We are going through rapid growth in our global payroll team, and we are looking for a Payroll Specialist located in Budapest, with an end-to-end understanding of payroll processes and ideally payroll experience from both in-house and outsourced payroll.
This is a truly unique opportunity to be part of a payroll team in one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, having a chance to really contribute to what modern global payroll looks like, with a goal to provide a world-class payroll experience to all of our employees.
What you’ll be doing

• Manage international payrolls or entities of medium complexity by overseeing the receipt, validation, and completion of payroll-related data activities.
• Deliver a world class employee payroll experience when delivering payroll services and when customers need help, while also resolving any issues that arise with a root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Work closely with our HR and Finance teams day to day and in all project activities, and ensure that the global design turns into local best practice payroll processes.
• Supporting our HR team in the hands-on collection, calculation, and entering of payroll data, where not handled within our system integration.
• Ensure the integrity of payroll data across integrated HR and payroll systems.
• Develop analytical approaches to scrutinize data, apply critical thinking skills, and gather inputs from peers to make informed decisions for rectifying any discrepancies.
• Own or participate in a moderate number of development projects that impact the payroll function Woltwide and on other payroll or business lead change activities.
• Act as the SME on our payroll transformation rollout for your countries, drawing current and future needs of payroll in your regions, transferring the data and ensuring that the new design fulfils all local statutory and legal requirements.
• Support payroll teammates with any side activities with their countries such as data collection, employee queries or off-cycle payments, and when necessary, back up your teammate to deliver payroll services.
• Create, maintain and improve payroll process documentation.
• Take ownership of your development plan and collaborate with your Team Lead to achieve your goals.
• Fulfil any additional tasks as assigned by the Team Lead.

Qualifications

• You have a strong understanding of core payroll management and processes.
• You have 2 years + of experience in a similar role 
• Experience and passion towards payroll and payroll-related technology and processes.
• Previous experience in payroll operations 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 MS Excel proficiently.
• You work well in a team and are completely comfortable collaborating remotely and dynamically using digital tools such as Slack and Zoom.

Additional Information

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!

If you have any further questions about the position, you can turn to:

Orsi Kocsis, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - [email protected]

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!