Senior Payroll Specialist, Roku
In office Monday - Thursday
4+ days a week in office ( Milton, Cambridge)
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
In office Monday - Thursday
4+ days a week in office ( Milton, Cambridge)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience supporting additional non-US payrolls in the Americas is a plus
- 4–6 years of hands-on payroll experience, primarily across EMEA
- Deep knowledge of UK payroll legislation and strong familiarity with EMEA payroll
- Experience working with external payroll vendors and HRIS platforms (Workday preferred)
- Proven ability to reconcile payroll data, identify discrepancies, and resolve independently
- Strong analytical mindset with high attention to detail and confidentiality
- Demonstrated experience operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- CIPP or comparable European payroll certification (or working toward certification)
- Experience with benefits-in-kind, equity/RSU taxation, and year-end reporting
- Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivots, reconciliation tools)
- Experience supporting internal/external audits and multi-country payroll cycles
- Exposure to Americas Non-US payrolls (nice to have, not required)
What the job involves
- Roku is seeking a highly skilled Payroll Specialist to join and become a key member of our Global Payroll team
- The role will be responsible for processing data for the monthly payrolls across our European entities and New Zealand
- This position will report to Sr. Manager, People & Payroll Programs and will be based in our Cambridge office
- The Sr. Payroll Specialist focusing on EMEA is responsible for executing and overseeing end-to-end payroll processes across EMEA, with primary responsibility for the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Ukraine, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand
- This role ensures accurate, compliant, and timely payroll delivery while partnering closely with PBPs, Finance, external payroll vendors, and cross-functional teams
- The Senior Specialist resolves complex payroll issues, ensures data accuracy, supports audits, and drives continuous improvement across regional payroll operations
- Manage monthly payroll cycles across EMEA
- Validate and reconcile payroll outputs, including taxation, statutory deductions, and benefits
- Ensure compliance with local legislation (i.e HMRC, Dutch tax authority, pensions, statutory reporting)
- Maintain and audit employee payroll records, ensuring proper setup of tax codes, benefits, allowances, and deductions
- Partner with external payroll providers to review calculations and resolve discrepancies
- Administer statutory payments (e.g., SSP/SMP/SPP/SAP in the UK and local equivalents)
- Support pension enrollment, statutory reporting, and compliance obligations
- Manage RTI submissions
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users. Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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