Payroll Specialist Lead - Australia

About Remote

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!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Payroll Specialist Lead joining our Global Payroll Operations Team.

What you bring

• In-house payroll management or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of payroll best practices
• Proficient in using software tools like SAP, Excel / Google Sheet
• An analytical mindset with great problem-solving abilities
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact
• Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work
• Understands the need and ideal to work largely asynchronously
• Writes and speaks fluent English
• Experience working remotely is considered a plus

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a true subject matter expert for Australia
• Manage existing relationships with key stakeholders within Payroll Implementation, Finance, Product, Engineers
• Process full end-to-end payroll in-house, statutory filing requirements, exceptions, approvals, payments and compliance
• Ensure full data integrity and quality
• Accounting/reconciliations
• Focus on KPIs and SLAs
• Implement and improve processes
• Mentor and support payroll specialists
• Back up regional managers during times of absence

Practicals

• Reporting to: Manager, Payroll Operations
• Team: Payroll Operations
• Location: Australia (prioritization given to this location, but all are welcome to apply)
• Start Date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

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.

Our salary bands may seem wide due to international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while hiring globally.

• Base Salary Range: $65,500 USD to $73,000 USD
• Note: Actual base pay depends on factors like location, transferable skills, work experience, training, business needs, and market demands. The salary range is subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. All compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case-by-case basis.

Application Process

• Interview with recruiter