GL Payroll Accountant

Criteo; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health benefits

Career development

Competitive salary

Equity potential depending on role

Job summary

Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform, is seeking a GL Accountant Payroll to join our Accounting Team in Barcelona. You will ensure payroll activity is accurately reflected in the general ledger across multiple countries, drive monthly close, and reconcile HR data with our ERP while embracing automation.

You'll work in a SOX-compliant environment, support cross-country payroll, and help migrate from SAP to Oracle Cloud ERP.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of accounting experience with payroll specialization in a multinational setup.
• Strong SAP knowledge; Oracle Cloud ERP is a plus.
• Experience in a SOX environment.
• Fluent in English; other languages are a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Control payroll proposals from external payroll provider.
• Prepare HR accruals including bonus and holiday pay.
• Record payroll journal entries and reconciliations.
• Perform month-end payroll close and SOX controls.
• Collaborate with HR, FP&A, and auditors on payroll reporting.
• Support migration from SAP to Oracle Cloud ERP and payroll design improvement.

Skills

Payroll accounting

Multinational scope

SOX compliance

Excel skills

Financial reporting

Education

ACCA/CA

Tools

SAP

Oracle Cloud ERP

Job description

What You'll Do:

As GL Accountant Payroll, you'll report to the Accounting Team Lead, and play a key role in ensuring payroll activity is accurately and completely reflected in the general ledger across all countries in your scope. As part of this, you'll drive your part of the monthly close process, including journal entries, accruals, and full reconciliation between HR data and our ERP.

You'll ensure tasks are completed accurately and on time, with the support of your Manager who will run regular 1:1s with you. Getting the fundamentals right matters to us, and you'll be expected to bring both rigor and a positive energy in your daily tasks and dynamic closing periods.

This role operates in a SOX-compliant environment, and you will be expected to deliver your SOX controls on time and to the required standard of quality.

You'll work closely with People teams across multiple countries, developing a solid understanding of local payroll specifics and becoming a trusted accounting partner to HR, as well as with the broader accounting and controllership team, FP&A, and other finance stakeholders. A key part of the role also involves standardizing and improving how payroll integrates into our financial statements globally.

We're also migrating from SAP to Oracle Cloud ERP, and in this role will have the opportunity to contribute to how payroll accounting is designed in our future system - a good fit for someone who takes pride in running a tight process and is genuinely curious about technology and automation.

Perimeter included in your scope will be a bunch of countries amongst all regions we are present in : Americas, EMEA and APAC. And may evolve following the increase of Criteo Group worldwide.

Your tasks will include:

Daily :

• Control of payroll proposals addressed by external payroll provider
• Preparation of HR accruals including bonus, and holiday pay
• Follow up and accounting for all impacts related to the exercise of stock options and RSU by our employees
• Sanity check on payroll and associated items
• Prepare cash landing and cash forecast processes

Month end closing :

• Review of all payroll journals
• Recording of all accounting entries relating to bonus and vacation pay accruals
• Full reconciliation and documentation of both Balance Sheet and P&L positions related to payroll
• Analysis of movements in all payroll related balance sheet accounts
• Preparation of SOX controls
• Analysis and understanding of all major variances in social charge ratios
• Follow up on prior month points raised to People Department

Relationship with auditors:

• Preparation of all PBC payroll related requests and their appropriate analysis on a quarterly and yearly basis.

Other ad-hoc projects / tasks

• Migration from current payroll provider to ADP scheduled for FY27.

Who You Are:

• 5-7 years of practical accounting experience, including specialization in payroll accounting with a multinational scope
• Good working knowledge of SAP; Oracle Cloud ERP is a strong plus
• Experience working in a SOX environment
• Experience in a fast-moving, complex international environment
• Highly organized, autonomous, and results-driven
• Accounting qualification (ACCA, CA, or local accounting certification)
• Fluent English; any other language is a plus
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-player mindset
• A genuine interest in process excellence, with a strong desire to use AI and other technologies to automate work
• Strong Excel skills

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role.

Who We Are:

We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.

We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs - never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.

What We Offer:

• Ways of working - Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
• Grow with us - Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
• Your wellbeing matters - Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
• A team that cares - Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
• Fair pay & perks - Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.

Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.