Payroll Operations Country Lead - UKI

<h2><strong>About Remote</strong></h2> <span>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.<br/><br/>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.</span>   <span>If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!</span><h2>How we work</h2> <p>We love <a href="https://www.notion.so/80c01cd443ad4c77a8ceaef7c5fba5d0?pvs=21">working async</a> and this means you get to do your own schedule.</p> <p>We empower ownership and proactivity and when in doubt default to action instead of waiting.</p> <h2>The position</h2> <p>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 <strong>Payroll</strong> team.</p> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li>Experience processing payrolls in a client payroll environment.</li> <li>Payroll implementation experience.</li> <li>Strong understanding of end-to-end payroll processes and statutory compliance for your country or region.</li> <li>Strong communication skills for explaining payroll processes and issues to customers and other stakeholders.</li> <li>Strong knowledge in using local payroll tools and software tools like SAP, Excel / Google Sheet.</li> <li>An analytical mindset with great problem-solving abilities.</li> <li>Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.</li> <li>Experience in accounting/reconciliations.</li> <li>Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work.</li> <li>You understand the need and ideal to work largely <a href="https://www.notion.so/8541f0e7ae004be7a7b949096c9f972c?pvs=21">asynchronously</a>.</li> <li>Writes and speaks fluent English</li> <li>It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus</li> </ul> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Independently manage the end-to-end implementation of smaller and less complex client payrolls.</li> <li>Support senior implementation team members with data preparation, validation, and reconciliation for more complex implementations.</li> <li>Conduct test payroll runs, reconciliations, and validation checks to ensure accuracy before go-live.</li> <li>Build and maintain a solid understanding of payroll legislation and best practices for the specified country/region</li> <li>Support the planning, execution, and monitoring of global payroll implementation projects, ensuring timely delivery in collaboration with the Implementation team.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Assist in implementing standardised payroll processes and procedures to ensure consistency and efficiency.</li> <li>Provide ongoing support during and after the implementation to resolve any issues or challenges.</li> <li>Have a focus on KPIs and SLAs.</li> <li>Contribute ideas for process improvements, automation, and knowledge sharing within the team.</li> <li>Ability to mentor and support payroll specialists.</li> <li>Working with internal teams to improve our platform, completing UAT testing through to shipping. Ensuring all changes are documented.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Application process</strong></h2> <ol> <li>Interview with recruiter</li> <li>Interview with future manager</li> <li>Interview with team members (no managers present)</li> <li>Bar Raiser Interview</li> <li><a href="https://www.notion.so/Veremark-Remote-96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b">Prior employment verification check</a> </li> </ol> <p>#LI-DNP</p><p>Remote's <a href="https://www.notion.so/remotecom/people-Total-Rewards-1945bce8d3924ece9421ba8630f57b0c">Total Rewards philosophy</a> is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair <span>equity</span><span> pay </span>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.</p> <p>At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials