Global Payroll Senior Analyst
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As Marqeta’s Global Payroll Senior Analyst , you will be responsible for combining technical expertise, project management, and employee relations. Your primary focus will be on Payroll Processing,
As Marqeta’s Global Payroll Senior Analyst, you will be responsible for combining technical expertise, project management, and employee relations. Your primary focus will be on Payroll Processing, using the Paylocity and Cloudpay Payroll system and/or preparing monthly international payroll instructions for third-party vendors. Additionally, you will support internal payroll projects and work closely with the greater Payroll team. You will also serve as a trusted advisor to both third-party vendors and payroll partners regarding integrated solutions and implementation projects. The ideal candidate will have a passion for people, payroll, project management, implementation, and problem-solving. This role requires a self-motivated professional who consistently brings a high level of dedication to projects and teammates, along with the ability to strategically and tactically navigate the unique challenges that innovation presents.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the United States or from our Oakland office. We’d love for you to join us!
- Process payroll transactions, handle special calculations, update employee information, collaborate with partners, prepare journal entries, and manage time and labor systems while ensuring compliance with standards.
- Retrieve reports, collaborate with HR, conduct audits, and communicate outcomes to Senior Management.
- Ensure compliance with SOX regulations for payroll by implementing and maintaining secure procedures and adhering to internal controls consistently.
- Manage all payroll-related issues for all external and internal stakeholders in a prompt and efficient manner.
- Identify and produce process improvement initiatives and action plans of essential projects such as Benefit Compliance, Global Mobility Compliance and Payroll Tax Compliance.
- Manage all vendor relationships and provide best practice process solutions that could be used to improve process performance from a Vendor and Process perspective.
- Requires a minimum of 5 years of overall experience with full life cycle payroll with a global entity with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
- Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations as they relate to payroll.
- Experience working in a fast paced work environment, ideally in the tech industry.
- Timeliness: Strong deadline management skills with the ability to lead cross-functional collaborators to an outcome on a set timeline.
Prioritization: Excellent project management skills with the ability to process a large number of competing requests from cross-functional partners . - Efficient with large dataset management; strong experience in Excel
- Must embrace tools and technology; familiarity with Paylocity, Workday, Intacct is ideal.
- Application Submission
- Recruiter video call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
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Listing Details
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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- May 15, 2026
- Last seen
- May 15, 2026
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