oyster - Global Payroll Analyst

• 3+ years of experience in payroll analysis or related payroll/finance roles. • Hands-on multi-country payroll experience and a strong understanding of payroll tax and compliance requirements. • Demonstrated experience analyzing large datasets, investigating discrepancies, and producing actionable insights. • Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and efficient data manipulation. • Experience with payroll software, accounting concepts, and basic data-transformation tooling. • High attention to detail and a strong control mindset, especially in audits and reconciliations. • Sound problem-solving and judgment under time-sensitive conditions. • Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across functions and with external providers. • Payroll exposure across continental Europe, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe, APAC, or South Africa. • Experience coordinating local payroll providers or other third-party vendors. • Payroll-to-general-ledger reconciliation or broader accounting experience. • Experience standardizing outputs from different systems into consistent templates such as CSV files. • Experience improving or automating payroll analytics, reconciliation, reporting, or data-transformation workflows. • This might not be right for you if... • You prefer narrowly defined processing tasks and do not enjoy analyzing messy data or investigating root causes. • You need frequent direction for familiar work rather than independently planning and executing within a team context. • You are uncomfortable working across countries, vendors, systems, and evolving compliance requirements. • You do not enjoy documenting processes, improving controls, or explaining detailed findings to non-payroll stakeholders. • You prefer predictable work without recurring deadlines, exceptions, or competing operational priorities. • YOU'LL ALSO NEED • A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one) • HOW WE WORK TOGETHER AT OYSTER • Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes Oyster what it is. We make it happen—progress is our default setting. We drive change, we build and give trust, and we move as one united team. • Our mission is to create a more equal world of work: helping companies everywhere hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. Everything we do ladders up to our mission. We embrace asynchronous, collaborative work and share how we operate in the Oyster Public HQ https://oysterhr.notion.site/Welcome-to-The-Reef-Oyster-s-Open-Source-Employee-Guide-fc482e3f107c4afd8c85ed217f1d0c1d so other global teams can learn from us. • With diverse locations, cultures, and needs, we created How YOU Work; https://oysterhr.notion.site/How-YOU-work-ac16c1932e314ffd8cb693e332458395 a program supporting your whole human experience at Oyster: • Work from anywhere: Oyster has no borders or HQ. As long as work is timely, your team is supported, and you're authorized to work where you live, you can work from anywhere. • Paid time off: Enjoy 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country. • Mental health support: Access Plumm https://oysterhr.notion.site/Plumm-3b5e7e70dec6428e975f68f25972cfb7, our mental well-being service. • Wellbeing allowance: Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet to spend on a wide range of options. • Flexible parental leave: All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally. • WFH stipend: Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly. • ✨ THE BEST JOBS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE • We embrace diverse perspectives and intentionally build our product and company with an inclusive, global mindset. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every criterion, and are committed to a trust-based, thriving environment. • Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email [email protected] with the subject line: Interview Accommodations. • Our available positions are on our careers page. Our team will only contact you from an @oysterhr.com email, and we will never ask for money as part of an interview process or job offer. If you receive a suspicious email about Oyster jobs or are directed to a site other than www.oysterhr.com/careers http://www.oysterhr.com/careers, please report it via our Compliance and Ethics Helpline https://faceup.com/c/8tpzyyye.