Senior Analyst, Payroll Operations

Job Title: Senior Analyst, Payroll Operations

About the Function:

Our Human Resources (HR) team bring brilliant people together to help us continue building iconic brands. We harness the diverse talents of our people to help them excel. We champion an inclusive and collaborative culture, where all voices and perspectives are celebrated and valued.

HR is at the heart of markets around the world, finding and developing talent that will unearth new ideas and inspire innovation. From creative problem solvers and entrepreneurs to scientists and engineers - whatever your experience and ideas, we'll help you to harness your talents, empowering you to be the best you can be.

About the team:

The Payroll Operations Team within the Employee Experience Tower supplied to the delivery of payroll for Diageo across India, Europe & Africa constantly liaising with 3rd party Service Providers.

The team works within an uncompromising pay cycle time frame, providing a consistently reliable and accurate service within a dynamic environment from both ongoing legislative and Policy changes.

About the role:

To deliver a professional, accurate, and timely payroll administration service, ensuring employees are paid correctly and on schedule.

The role requires adherence to compliance standards, ensuring all payroll checklists, calendars, variance reporting, KPIs, and journals are completed accurately and within timelines to meet internal and external controls.

Role Responsibilities:

Key Accountabilities

• Validate payroll inputs received from business teams and outputs from vendors to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing for assigned countries

• Perform detailed variance analysis to support quality checks and identify discrepancies

• Handle relationships and coordinate optimally with payroll service providers

• Maintain a strong focus on quality, accuracy, and compliance in all payroll activities

• Ensure timely resolution of employee queries in collaboration with vendors

• Adhere rigorously to data privacy, compliance, and audit requirements

• Support internal and external payroll audits for assigned regions

• Handle year-end payroll activities efficiently

• Demonstrate flexibility to support different regions and adapt to changing business needs

• Maintain high attention to detail and structured problem-solving approach

a) Financial

• The role will be responsible to ensure timely and accurate payments made to all Diageo Employees in scope

b) Market Complexity

• Liaising with employees across the business and multiple countries

• Partnering with outsourced payroll provider on all the above payrolls. Complexity - Answering tax queries, parental and other LOA questions, calculating advances, collating overtime and following monthly checklists and calendars to ensure all data processed accurately and within agreed timeframes. Completing in a compliant manner following our GBP Payroll controls.

• High degree of technical knowledge required on multi country payrolls

c) Relationships

• Liaising and establishing links with Diageo internal teams both upstream and downstream.

• Build and maintain excellent relationship with concerned payroll provider

Experience / skills required:

• 3-5 years of payroll processing experience, with strong experience in Indian payroll

• Exposure to global or European payroll processes will be an added advantage

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or equivalent

• Good understanding of statutory payments, deductions, and local payroll regulations

• Ability to interpret and apply payroll legislation across regions

• Strong communication skills with experience working across geographies and cultures

• Proficiency in MS Office tools

• Working knowledge of ticketing systems such as ServiceNow

• Ability to handle complex payroll environments, identify issues, and drive resolutions

• Strong customer management and relationship-building skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining high-quality output

• Self-motivated, well-organized, and capable of handling multiple priorities and regions

• Strong written, verbal, and time management skills

• Experience handling employee and vendor queries via email or ticketing systems

• Ability to simplify complex situations and support clear, data-driven decision-making

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.

Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.

Ourambitionistocreatethebestperforming,mosttrustedandrespectedconsumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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