Payroll Specialist

Job Description

Are you an experienced Payroll Specialist - Israel, 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. Wolt has since grown rapidly and become a global company, currently operating in 25 countries and over 500+ cities across EMEA, servicing 15M registered users - and this is only the beginning. 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 roll out 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 Tel-Aviv, with 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

• Managing Israeli payrolls (receiving, validating, and completing payroll related data activities) and collaborating with the outsourced payroll provider so that our global team is paid correctly.
• Handling onboarding and terminations of high scale of part time employyes
• Work closely with our counterparts in the local HR and Finance teams in all project related activities, ensuring that the global design turns into local payroll processes.
• Supporting our HR team in the hands-on collection, calculation, and entering of payroll data, where not handled within our system integration.
• Take active part in various payroll projects including payroll vendor change, system integrations, country expansions and automation of various payroll processes.
• Ensuring payroll data integrity across our integrated HR and payroll systems, and identification and fixing of any errors.
• Creating and keeping up to date payroll process documentation.
• Drawing current and future needs of payroll in your regions, transferring the data, and ensuring that the new design fulfills all local statutory and legal requirements by being active in our payroll implementation project.
• Payroll query and request management both to employees and Team Leads.
  
  

Our humble expectations

• You have a strong understanding of core payroll management and processes as well as Payroll certification.
• You have proven experience in a similar role
• Experience and passion towards payroll and payroll-related technology and processes.
• Previous experience in payroll with focus on Israel 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 and Hebrew
• 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.
  
  

Next Steps

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!

Along with a competitive salary and benefits, you will also be eligible for our long term incentive plan.

You will fit into a truly diverse team across 25 countries - what really matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work at eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.

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

About Wolt

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.