Senior HR Controlling Analyst

About this role

Payroll errors don't announce themselves. They hide in variances, edge cases and system mismatches — until they become audit findings, compliance risks or employee trust issues. Your job is to find them first. As SIXT's payroll control function within HR Controlling & Analytics, you will own the end-to-end monitoring of payroll data across European markets. You sit outside the Payroll team by design — giving you the independence to verify, challenge and escalate without conflict of interest.

Right now, a lot of this work is manual and market-specific. You'll change that: systematically automating recurring checks, building a standardised control catalogue, and establishing governance processes that scale across Germany, France, Portugal and beyond. This is a role with real ownership. You decide what gets checked, how it gets checked, and when a finding is material enough to escalate. About 75% of your time is hands-on analysis and control work — the rest is building the framework that makes the whole system repeatable, auditable and robust.

Apply now and Join TEAM ORANGE! YOUR ROLE AT SIXT You run recurring payroll checks and reconciliations, including payroll vs. HR master data, period-over-period variances, plausibility and outlier analyses You investigate deviations, find the root cause and coordinate resolution with Payroll, HR Operations and People Systems You decide on analysis logic and thresholds for the checks, and judge when a finding is material enough to escalate You prepare clear check results and findings for the Head and stakeholders You safeguard the quality of the underlying payroll and people data, and automate recurring checks to reduce manual effort You design and introduce governance processes for payroll monitoring, define check standards and a risk-based control approach, and work with Payroll, Finance, Compliance and People Systems to anchor the controls in the processes YOUR SKILLS MATTER Education You hold a degree in HR, business, finance, data/analytics or comparable Experience You bring 3–6 years of hands-on experience in payroll controlling, HR controlling, payroll audit or HR analytics — ideally with exposure to European payroll regulations Technical skills You have strong analytical skills, advanced Excel/BI and SQL are required; Workday and payroll system knowledge is a strong plus Process improvement You have experience building or improving controls and processes Precision You work with high precision and discretion when handling sensitive data Languages You are business-fluent in English WHAT WE OFFER The SIXT Lisbon Experience Two of Lisbon's most exciting hubs - Factory Lisboa in Beato and ARTs Lisboa in Parque das Nações - are where you'll find your new home base.