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Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal

Role Summary

At Cloudflare, we’re committed to delivering seamless and accurate payroll experience to our global workforce. As our company grows, we are expanding our international payroll capabilities and are looking for a Global Payroll Analyst to join our team in Lisbon. This role will play a critical part in the end-to-end payroll process for employees across multiple international regions. You’ll work closely with HR, Finance, and external vendors to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing while continuously seeking opportunities to improve processes and enhance employee experience.

Role Responsibilities

Own and manage day-to-day international payroll operations across designated countries,
including base pay, bonuses, commissions, equity transactions, benefits, and statutory requirements.
Partner closely with HR to maintain accurate and up-to-date employee data for payroll processing.
Ensure timely and accurate execution of off-cycle payments, including manual payments and electronic bank transfers.
Perform regular audits and reconciliations of payroll data and records to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Prepare reports and provide formal and ad-hoc analysis related to payroll, headcount, benefits, and compensation.
Serve as a key point of contact for employee payroll inquiries and resolve issues with professionalism and confidentiality.
Collaborate with external payroll vendors and ensure compliance with local tax laws, labor regulations, and reporting requirements.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

Must-Have Skills

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
1–3 years of experience in international payroll operations.
Strong understanding of payroll fundamentals, tax regulations, and compliance requirements.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Prior experience with APAC payroll operations is highly desirable.
Familiarity with processing payroll involving equity transactions, benefits, commissions, and multiple statutory withholdings.
Experience with Workday and payroll vendor platforms.
Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated ability to support scalable and compliant payroll operations in a fast-paced environment.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

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