Headcount & Payroll Analyst
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JustMarketsFintech Brokerage
Location: EuropeFull-TimeMiddle
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Data AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelGoogle SheetsBudgeting
Requirements
- Experience in Finance, FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, or people-cost planning.
- Strong understanding of payroll cost and headcount (FTE) budgeting and rolling forecasting.
- Experience with plan vs actual analysis and variance analysis (headcount, rate, mix, timing).
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills for financial modelling.
- Understanding of employer personnel costs across in-house, EOR, and B2B contractor models.
- Understanding of gross-to-net payroll logic and basic management accounting.
- Ability to request, challenge, and validate data from HR, Payroll, and department heads.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to handle compensation data with discretion.
- Capability to explain variances and financial risks to leadership in a structured way.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a consolidated payroll and headcount budget and forecasting for the group.
- Analyse plan vs actual personnel costs, explain key variances and keep the forecast up to date.
- Model bonus schemes: calculate pools, accruals and payout scenarios, and reflect their P&L and cash impact in the plan.
- Own people-cost metrics jointly with HR (cost per hire, fully-loaded cost per FTE) and track their trend across reporting periods.
- Recommend hiring capacity and headcount limits based on the approved budget.
- Prepare and deliver monthly payroll cost and forecast reports to finance business partners and the Corporate FP&A Lead.
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