Senior Payroll Analyst

COSTAR GROUP – SENIOR PAYROLL ANALYST, FINANCE - LONDON

At CoStar Group, our finance group centralises transaction processes, providing accurate reporting, financial resolutions, and proper forecasting analysis. We are currently seeking a Senior Payroll Analyst to join our team based from our EMEA headquarters in Southwark. This role will interact with the entire organisation but will focus on our operations outside North America, supporting the payroll process for over 6,800 employees in the US and 13 international countries.

Responsibilities

• Support the accurate and timely processing of 19 monthly international payrolls.
• Ensure all payrolls are administered in full compliance with international regulations, company policies, and SOX requirements.
• Participate in expatriate payroll processing, partnering closely with HR and external tax advisors to ensure accurate reporting.
• Manage payroll inputs, including file creation, file uploads, and manual entries within the Workday Payroll system.
• Collaborate with Human Resources and Benefits teams on payroll‑impacting transactions such as leaves of absence, retroactive benefit deductions, and related adjustments.
• Complete post‑production payroll activities, including settlement, vendor integrations, and account reconciliations.
• Oversee the ‘time entry’ process, ensuring employees and managers submit and approve time‑off requests accurately and on schedule.
• Maintain full life‑cycle garnishment processing, including system updates, employee communication, and responses to interrogatories.
• Contribute to ongoing process improvement initiatives and support the adoption of new Workday features.
• Maintain and update process maps and documentation as workflows evolve.
• Serve as the primary lead for specialised payroll tasks such as stock awards, option exercises, regulatory filings, and sales commission payments.
• Oversee quarterly tax reconciliations and filings and support year‑end activities including annual tax filings and reconciliations.
• Deliver exceptional customer service to CoStar employees by responding promptly and accurately to payroll inquiries.
• Uphold strict confidentiality of employee records, including compensation and personal information.
• Foster and promote a collaborative and supportive working environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 4 years' experience in Payroll review and execution, ideally supporting multiple countries in Europe including France, Spain, Germany, Italy.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel (must be able to conduct data analysis, VLOOKUP’s, pivot tables).
• Exceptional stakeholder management experience, ideally including management of an outsourced provider.
• Experience using HRIS/HCM platforms such as Workday, TMF, ADP.
• Additional payroll qualifications such as CIPP are highly beneficial.

Benefits

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. In addition to an outstanding working environment, equipped to help you to be your best, other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.