Senior Payroll Analyst, CoStar - London

Job Overview

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real‑estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitise the world’s real‑estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. With over 35 years of experience, CoStar continually refines and innovates its services to deliver value to customers, employees and investors.

Description

At CoStar Group, our finance group centralises transaction processes, providing accurate reporting, financial resolutions and forecasting analysis. The Senior Payroll Analyst joins the team at our EMEA headquarters in Southwark, supporting payroll for over 6,800 employees across the US and 13 international countries.

Responsibilities

• Support the accurate and timely processing of 19 monthly international payrolls.
• Ensure 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.
• Manage payroll inputs, including file creation, 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 other 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.
• Lead 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.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in payroll review and execution, ideally supporting multiple countries in Europe (France, Spain, Germany, Italy).
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel (data analysis, VLOOKUP, 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 enjoying a culture of collaboration and innovation. Benefits include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance, member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity

CoStar Group recognises the value of diversity and promotes equality. We aim at all times to recruit the most suitable candidate and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to different genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs. CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre‑employment substance abuse testing.