Senior Payroll Control Analyst – Europe

Sixt-; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

28 vacation days

Birthday day off

Volunteer day

Private health insurance for family

Coverflex allowance

Daily meal allowance

Job summary

Sixt Research Development Services, Lda. leads payroll control across Europe within HR Controlling & Analytics, owning end-to-end monitoring of payroll data and driving automation of recurring checks and a standardised control catalogue.

The role is independent from Payroll to challenge and elevate processes, with significant hands-on analysis and governance-building responsibilities. You will work on defining logic, thresholds, and materiality of findings, coordinating with Payroll, HR

Qualifications

• Education: degree in HR, business, finance, data/analytics or comparable.
• Experience: 3–6 years in payroll controlling, HR controlling, payroll audit or HR analytics, ideally with exposure to European payroll regulations.
• Technical skills: strong analytical skills; advanced Excel/BI and SQL are required; Workday/payroll system knowledge is a plus.
• Process improvement: experience building or improving controls and processes.
• Precision: high precision and discretion with sensitive data.
• Languages: business-fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Run recurring payroll checks and reconciliations, including payroll vs. HR master data, variance analyses, plausibility and outlier analyses.
• Investigate deviations, identify root causes, coordinate resolution with Payroll, HR Operations and People Systems.
• Decide on analysis logic and thresholds for checks; judge materiality of findings.
• Prepare clear check results and findings for Head and stakeholders.
• Safeguard data quality and automate recurring checks to reduce manual effort.
• Design and introduce governance processes for payroll monitoring; define check standards and risk-based controls; anchor controls with Payroll, Finance, Compliance and People Systems.

Skills

Analytical thinking

English proficiency

Problem solving

Data governance

Education

Degree in HR, business, finance, data/analytics or comparable

Tools

Excel

BI tools

SQL

Workday

Job description

Sixt Research Development Services, Lda. leads payroll control across Europe within HR Controlling & Analytics, owning end-to-end monitoring of payroll data and driving automation of recurring checks and a standardised control catalogue.

The role is independent from Payroll to challenge and elevate processes, with significant hands-on analysis and governance-building responsibilities. You will work on defining logic, thresholds, and materiality of findings, coordinating with Payroll, HR