Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond. 

The Payroll Analyst / Payroll Specialist is responsible for managing and executing payroll processes across multiple international locations, with a primary operational base in Bulgaria. The role ensures accurate and timely payroll processing, strong vendor collaboration, and compliance with both local Bulgarian legislation and international payroll requirements.

This role works closely with the Head of Global Payroll and global stakeholders to deliver high‑quality payroll operations, support payroll transitions and implementations, and contribute to continuous improvement of global payroll processes.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

Payroll Operations (Global)

• Execute end‑to‑end payroll processes for multiple countries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Act as a key operational payroll contact for global entities, supporting BAU payroll activities and covering for other payroll team members as part of a global operating model.
• Prepare payroll reconciliations, variance analysis, and payroll summaries for Finance and the Head of Global Payroll.

Bulgarian Payroll Ownership

• Manage and oversee payroll activities specific to Bulgaria, ensuring compliance with local labour law, tax and social security requirements.

Payroll Implementation & Vendor Management

• Support payroll implementations, transitions, and entity changes in collaboration with internal stakeholders and outsourced payroll providers.
• Build effective working relationships with global and local payroll vendors, ensuring service delivery meets agreed standards and timelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, and documentation.

Benefits, Compliance & Employee Support

• Support payroll‑related benefits and pension activities, including ongoing changes and amendments.
• Respond to employee payroll queries in a professional, timely, and empathetic manner.
• Ensure payroll processes are fully documented and audit‑ready; support internal and external payroll audits where required.

KEY INTERFACES

• Global payroll team
• HR operations team
• Finance
• External payroll vendors
• Tax Authorities
• Employees

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Essential skills

• Proven experience in a global payroll role, managing payrolls across multiple countries and jurisdictions.
• Hands‑on experience with Bulgarian payroll processing, including local compliance requirements.
• Strong understanding of payroll controls, reconciliations, and post‑payroll validation.
• Strong knowledge of payroll compliance and tax regulations, including income tax, social security contributions, statutory reporting, and year‑end obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with high‑volume payroll data.
• Comfortable using AI‑enabled tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot, automation tools, advanced Excel features) to improve payroll accuracy, efficiency, and analysis.
• Experience working with outsourced or vendor‑managed payroll models.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical mindset, and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence working with international stakeholders.
• Business‑level written and verbal English is required.

Desirable skills

• Experience supporting payroll implementations or system/vendor transitions.
• Exposure to EMEA/APAC and/or multi‑regional payroll operations.
• Payroll or finance qualifications (e.g. CPP, GPA membership, or local equivalent).
• Experience working with global payroll/HR/benefits platforms i.e CloudPay/Hibob/ThanksBen.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.