Senior Payroll Analyst (French-speaking)

We're looking for a Senior Payroll Analyst to join our growing Payroll team in Belgrade. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a truly global environment where your expertise will make a tangible impact every day. In this role, you'll play a key part in ensuring that Clarivate colleagues across the business are paid accurately and on time, while continuously developing your own skills within a supportive and collaborative team. If you bring strong experience in EMEA payroll, particularly in France and Belgium, and take pride in delivering precise, high-quality work, we'd love to hear from you.

About You - experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

• 5 years of experience managing payroll in a multi-jurisdictional/global payroll environment, with strong focus on EMEA (particularly France and Belgium)
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent work experience
• Proficient in English
• Proficient in French
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel

It would be great if you also have...

• Solid working knowledge and hands-on experience with payroll requirements, legislation, and statutory obligations, including source tax filings, social security filings, and country-specific tax rulings in France and Belgium
• Working knowledge of ADP Streamline or other SaaS payroll platforms
• Working knowledge of the Workday application

What will you be doing in this role?

• Process payroll and perform employee file maintenance functions for assigned countries with strong focus on France and Belgium, and other selected countries to ensure the accurate and timely payment of wages.
• Payroll inputs compilation, verification of outputs, including benefit deductions, reconciliations, and year end processing.
• Responsible for maintaining relationships with outsourced payroll vendors including escalations, compliance issues, audits, and reporting.
• Responsible for initiating payments to employees, vendors, tax authorities and social security authorities.

About the Team

The Global Payroll Team consists of 20+ team members, processing payrolls for over 12,000 colleagues in 35 countries, and around 90 entities, and is reporting to the Director of Global Payroll, with this role reporting to the Manager - EMEA Payroll. We are a truly diverse team with team members located in the US, the UK, China, Spain, Serbia, Israel and India.

Benefits

• Holidays: 25 days paid leave per annum
• Private Health Insurance
• Paid Lunch
• Yearly Bonus
• Yearly Merit Plan
• My Learning Platform
• Fit Pass
• Life Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Company bicycles for rent free of charge

Hours of Work

This is a full-time position, CET working hours. This is a hybrid position working in the office for a minimum of 3 days every other week.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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