The Payroll Controllership Manager enables our payroll operations teams to pay our global teammates accurately and on time every pay cycle. This role owns and ensures we are executing our payroll delivery to the highest level of controllership to protect our license to operate and ensure we are audit ready.

As a brand-new role in our team, this position will report to the Head of Payroll Compliance and requires someone with the energy and desire to design and build our new controls framework, with a passion for innovation to implement new and evolving best practices in this space to meet our complex landscape,

Wolt continues to grow at pace with our expansions in existing and new geographies, and new business verticals. The new Payroll Controllership Manager must ensure we scale up our approaches to controllership with the business, delivering best-in-class controllership management approaches to safely enable this fast growth. 

For the candidate with a passion for the complexities of international payroll, this is a unique opportunity to join the payroll team at one of the fastest growing companies in Europe. You will be responsible for contributing to what modern global payroll looks like and delivering a world-class payroll experience to all of our teammates.

What you’ll be doing

• Embrace the challenge of building what great looks like for this brand-new role.
• Partner with the Internal Controls team to design our global payroll controls framework across our 30+ Geographies to enable our operations team to successfully deliver payroll services and allow for continued business growth at pace.
• Create a robust framework around how we meet SOX compliance requirements.
• Act as the global process owner for our operational controls framework that includes, operational controls, workflow checklists, process documentation, escalation matrix, as well as our approaches to segregation of duty, access rights, and management monitoring. 
• Act as Wolt payroll's primary contact for the Wolt Internal Audit team and any global external audit items, and support the payroll team on any country level inquiries and audits.
• Design our global Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans
• Be the process owner on how we discover, track to resolution and future mitigate any controllership risks, covering all inputs to payroll, including collaboration with cross functional teammates to map the E2E payroll process to identify control gaps
• Work with a continuous improvement mindset, and improve our levels of controllership through automation
• Create and execute a Learning and Development program that upskills teammates but with a view of continuous learning in place for ongoing development
• Partner with Accounting to build best practice process for how we report and reconcile the payroll general ledger P&L and BS accounts
   

• Minimum 4 years of experience in Payroll Controllership or a related field, with proven leadership of a team or vertical.
• Experience in dynamic, fast-paced, and constantly changing environments, ideally in the technology sector.
• Proven capability of building and developing existing and new processes for scalable payroll global operations.
• Excellent communication skills for engaging with internal teams, and senior leadership effectively, fostering strong relationships, and facilitating collaborative efforts.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, streamlining processes, standardising where it makes sense, and automating services using the latest technologies.
   

Why you'll love working with us

Wolt is growing fast, and you’ll be at the center of helping us navigate global mobility challenges. This is your chance to make a real impact on our employees’ experiences while shaping the way we approach mobility for the future. 

You’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative team where ideas are welcomed, and no two days are the same. If you’re excited to bring your skills and creativity to Wolt, we’d love to hear from you!

Wolt is a Finnish technology company and we’re best known for our food delivery platform. In 2017, Wolt operated in 4 countries and 10 cities across the Nordics. Fast forward to today, we’re a team of 12,000+ people in 27 countries and over 500+ cities, servicing over 41 million registered users. As the platform economy is changing the ways consumers connect with restaurants and retailers, we're seeing a huge opportunity to be the industry leader with the amazing teams we have built globally.

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