Global Payroll Administrator
Pubblicato il 03-10-2026 - Canonical in Bardi
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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
We’re looking for an exceptional payroll administrator with experience of working with outsourced payroll bureaus (US, UK, EU and/or additional jurisdictions) to manage the company’s end to end global payroll and contractor payments. You’ll have domain expertise in processing payroll in different countries. You are reliable,
diligent and pay attention to details and always work towards improving current processes.
Location: This role may choose to be office based out of London or home based in EMEA, and will report to our Global Financial Controller.
This role entails
- Ensure all payrolls are always delivered on time and with 100% accuracy
- Process the payroll/contractor data in an organised and structured manner
- Manage all payroll deadlines and monthly payroll tasks
- Prepare payroll reports and provide monthly payroll data in journal format to finance for processing
- Comply with GDPR regulations and maintain payroll security/confidentiality
- Deal with payroll queries and resolve or escalatem as required
- Constantly seek out ways to improve systems and processes to ensure a seamless flow between HR, Payroll and Finance
- Keep payroll policies up to date and write any new procedures as required
- Provide support to any