Payroll Specialist Lead

Payroll Specialist Lead

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Payroll Operations Country (or Regional) Senior Specialist, joining our Payroll team.

Remote is solving modern organizations' biggest challenge navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future-focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences, and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

We love working async and this means you get to do your own schedule. We empower ownership and proactivity and when in doubt default to action instead of waiting.

Key responsibilities :

• Independently manage the end-to-end implementation of smaller and less complex client payrolls.
• Support senior implementation team members with data preparation, validation, and reconciliation for more complex implementations.
• Conduct test payroll runs, reconciliations, and validation checks to ensure accuracy before go-live.
• Build and maintain a solid understanding of payroll legislation and best practices for the specified country / region.
• Support the planning, execution, and monitoring of global payroll implementation projects, ensuring timely delivery in collaboration with the Implementation team.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for simpler payroll implementations, and support senior leads in stakeholder communication and coordination for larger or more complex projects.
• Assist in implementing standardized payroll processes and procedures to ensure consistency and efficiency.
• Provide ongoing support during and after the implementation to resolve any issues or challenges.
• Have a focus on KPIs and SLAs.
• Contribute ideas for process improvements, automation, and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Ability to mentor and support payroll specialists.
• Working with internal teams to improve our platform, completing UAT testing through to shipping. Ensuring all changes are documented.

Requirements :

Application process :

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is $52,850 - $59,450 USD.

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com / r / benefits.

Some benefits / perks are for all Remoters :

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply :

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status, and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.