Senior Payroll Analyst
Snowflake · Posted Oct 22
Cloud data warehousing, analytics, data sharing, and AI infrastructure services
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About the role
Snowflake is a data platform company scaling its international payroll function. The EMEA payroll team is responsible for accurate and on-time payroll processing, statutory compliance, accounting close support, and payroll vendor management. This Senior Payroll Analyst role in Pune supports end-to-end EMEA payroll operations, process standardization and automation, audits, and cross-functional collaboration with HR, Finance, Legal, and Accounting.
What you will do
- Working closely with existing international payroll partners to ensure accurate and on-time payroll processing. Overall delivery of end-to-end payroll operations including:
- Preparing and adhering to a schedule / payroll calendar and agree the timelines with payroll vendor and other internal stakeholders
- Accurately capturing all inputs to be provided to the payroll vendors in a timely manner
- Thorough review of the output. Includes but not limited to performing payroll analysis such as total gross payroll to net payment, average paid per headcount by country, and comparison of analysis to prior period
- Support monthly/quarterly accounting close activities, account maintenance and reconciliations, financial reporting and variance analysis, etc.
- Provide hands off to the accounting teams post payroll close to ensure accounting of payroll within the timelines prescribed by the close calendar
- Ensure compliance with local jurisdictions for activities within the payroll domain including statutory filings and key annual audits
- Monitor and measure the SLAs as agreed with the payroll vendor. Raise matter where there are slippages and recommend corrective action to management
- Working closely with other functional teams (e.g. HR, Stock Administration, People Operations, Benefits, Recruiting, Legal and accounting) to streamline cross-functional processes
- Recognizing opportunities and recommending process improvements also involves assisting with the design and implementation of internal control measures to ensure proper payment authorizations and segregation of duties.
- Providing excellent payroll support to employees and cross-functional teams by addressing inquiries, concerns, and requests.
- Providing standard and ad-hoc payroll reports as needed by various internal departments such as Finance, Accounting, Legal, Benefits, and People Operations.
- Creating and/or maintaining payroll documentation as it relates to processing, operational procedures, compliance, and other payroll-related matters.
- Providing support in various system implementation projects as needed.
- Provide support to external and internal audits for the area of payroll
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s / master’s degree in business, Finance, or Accounting
- 5 to 10 years of relevant and progressive payroll experience; public company payroll experience required
- Preferred hands-on experience working on some of these payrolls – Poland, Israel, Spain and other EMEA countries.
- Experience working with international payroll platforms such as ADP, EY, Cloudpay, or other global payroll platforms preferred.
- Experience of other international payrolls will be an added advantage.
- Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Highly proficient in utilizing various computer applications such as Microsoft Excel (Pivots, V/H Lookups) and Google Suite apps (e.g. Google Sheets)
- Familiarity with Workday HCM and Workday Financials is a plus
- Understanding of accounting, taxation, and finance concepts as it relates to payroll
- Possesses in-depth knowledge of payroll-related compliance requirements
- Adaptable to a fast-changing work environment; able to deliver accurate and on-time payroll regardless of the circumstances
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to manage through change and to lead change when appropriate
- Attention to detail, organized and thorough with the desire for continuous improvement
- Proactive and problem-solving attitude
- Good command on English speaking and writing
- Adapts quickly to changes in a dynamic organizational structure and business processes
- Flexible with working hour changes.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Snowflake
Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud, a cloud-based platform that unifies data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and data sharing. Its architecture separates compute from storage, enabling organizations to securely store, govern, and analyze data across multiple public clouds. The platform also integrates generative AI services and developer frameworks to help enterprises scale advanced workloads.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2012-07-23
- Location
- Bozeman, Montana, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $1.56B raised
- 2012-02-01Seed$900K
- 2012-08-01Series A$5M
- 2014-10-01Series B$26M
- 2015-06-01Series C$79M
- 2017-09-01Series D$105M
- 2018-01-01Series E$263M
- 2018-10-01Series F$450M
- 2020-02-01Series G$479M
- 2020-09-16Post IPO$376M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Product
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Security and Trust Officer
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