Payroll Project Manager

Company Description

Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants, and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants), and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 31 countries today, 27 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.

Job Description

Do you have experience with payroll and/or people software related projects, ideally with some experience or understanding of payroll processes? Do you want to be part of our growing team in a truly global tech company and contribute to scaling up and developing payroll operations? If this sounds exciting, then we’d love to chat! 

Our selected candidate could be based either in Finland, Hungary, or Slovakia. 

We always strive for global scalability, modern processes, and automation, and therefore we prioritize development in every area of the business. With this attitude, we have during the past couple of years launched new platforms in the people team, updated our global way of working model, and undergone many payroll implementations and enhancements. And keep on moving the needle forward every day with new change activities and we do need a new pair of helping hands.

Specifically in our global payroll team, we are looking for a Payroll Project Manager. to lead some of our new upcoming projects and keep our North Star vision present when leading new implementations or change projects. This is a truly unique opportunity to be part of both a fast-growing team and a major payroll transformation in one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. To a chance to contribute to what modern global payroll looks like and to provide a world-class payroll experience to all of our employees. Aiming for next level customer experience with all we do for our teammates and payroll operations teams.

What you’ll be doing

• Take active end-to-end ownership of your projects, which will include payroll vendor change, system integrations, and country expansions.
• Execute to a high quality, underpinned by measurable success criteria 
• Work closely with our counterparts in different teams in all project-related activities, ensuring that the global design turns into local payroll processes keeping our North Star goals present. 
• Work with the wider payroll team to ensure new designs fulfill all local statutory and legal requirements.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders, drive project change management and training, ensuring we have successful implementations from all stakeholder perspectives. 
• Drive for high-end knowledge transfer for post-production activities after a project “go live", and identify gaps and opportunities to improve as we move to Service.
• In all of this, you’ll join the Payroll Transformation Team, working side-by-side with our global payroll team members.

Qualifications

• Ideally, you have a good understanding of people processes and payroll process design, with a clear view of what works and what doesn’t. 
• Huge advantage if you’ve had exposure and experience in payroll implementation projects, either on the vendor or client side, and ideally also in a multi-country environment.
• You have a technical understanding of common HR tools and how they contribute to payroll.
• Previous experience with a global payroll vendor is a strong advantage.
• Technical knowledge of SAP tools  is an asset
• SFTP not being an alien acronym  to you, this is a big plus.
• A passion for payroll, data, process development and technology is a must.
• You have excellent planning, problem solving and time management skills.
• You are a strong communicator, with high working proficiency in English. 
• You have the ability to look at matters from different perspectives and not be afraid to ask questions.
• You enjoy taking ownership and delivering results.
   

Additional Information

Why you'll love working with us

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!

You will fit into a truly diverse team across 27 countries - what matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work on eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.

What you’ll get by joining us

• Opportunity to be part of building something exceptional, in an international environment
• Lots of learning and growth in a globally scaling tech company
• Along with a competitive salary, you will also be eligible for our stock option plan

If you have any further questions about the position, you can turn to:

Orsi Kocsis, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - orsolya.kocsis@wolt.com

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