Payroll Specialist Lead

Position Overview

Remote is seeking a Payroll Specialist Lead to join our Global Payroll Operations Team. This role is an exciting opportunity to make a personal difference in the global employment space by managing and processing full end-to-end payroll, ensuring statutory filing requirements, exceptions, approvals, payments, and compliance. You will act as a subject matter expert, manage stakeholder relationships, ensure data integrity, and contribute to process improvements.

About Remote

Remote is dedicated to solving the modern organization's challenge of navigating global employment compliantly and with ease. We empower businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. Our team operates asynchronously from six continents, united by a future-focused work culture and a passion for tackling ambitious problems. We encourage diversity of talents, experiences, and cultures to build a best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, join us and define the future of work!

What You Bring

• Experience: Payroll management or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge: Understanding of payroll best practices.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in software tools such as SAP, Excel, and Google Sheets.
• Analytical Skills: An analytical mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.
• Efficiency: A productivity-oriented mindset with a drive for continuous improvement and work optimization.
• Asynchronous Work: Understanding and preference for working largely asynchronously.
• Language: Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Remote Work Experience: Not required, but considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for the country.
• Manage existing relationships with key stakeholders in Payroll Implementation, Finance, Product, and Engineering.
• Process full end-to-end payroll in-house, including statutory filing requirements, exceptions, approvals, payments, and compliance.
• Ensure full data integrity and quality.
• Perform accounting and reconciliations.
• Focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Implement and improve payroll processes.
• Mentor and support other payroll specialists.
• Provide backup support to regional managers during absences.

Practicals

• Reporting To: Manager, Global Payroll Operations
• Team: Payroll
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start Date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote fosters internal mobility and employee growth through a compensation philosophy that ensures pay equity and fairness. All compensation changes related to internal moves are reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team. Our philosophy is to provide fair, unbiased compensation, equitable pay, and competitive benefits globally. We do not support cheap-labor practices and ensure pay above in-location rates, aiming to inspire other companies to support global talent hiring and contribute to local economies.

Our salary bands are wide due to our international operations and globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to account for geographic pay differentials, ensuring competitiveness across various markets while hiring globally.

• Base Salary Range: $83,150 USD to $93,550 USD (full-time position)

The actual base pay will depend on factors such as location, transferable skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and job titles may span multiple career levels. The base salary range is subject to change.

Application Process

• (Async) Profile review
• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• (Async) Offer

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Benefits

Our full benefits package is comprehensive.