Payroll Business Operations Specialist - 6 Month FTC

Overview

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!

The Position

The Payroll Business Operations Specialist independently leads and delivers medium to large-scale projects within the payroll domain. This role is responsible for managing end-to-end projects and coordinating with cross-functional teams. The Specialist performs impact analysis, risk assessments, and change management while identifying process gaps and connecting data insights to operational improvements. They play a key role in driving efficiency, supporting strategic goals, and maintaining alignment with compliance and governance standards.

Key Requirements

• Intermediate experience in payroll operations, business operations, or project / program management
• Proven experience managing medium to large-scale projects and workstreams independently
• Strong working knowledge of payroll processes, compliance considerations, and risk management
• Proficiency in tools such as Notion, Monday.com (Champion level), Slack, Microsoft Office, Zendesk, and BI and Analytics tools (like Sigma)
• Training or certification in Project Management, Compliance, or advanced tooling (e.g., Monday.com, Notion, Zendesk)
• Ability to conduct impact analysis, map processes, and translate data insights into actionable improvements
• Skilled in cross-functional coordination, stakeholder management, and structured communication
• Comfortable managing project complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to identify, propose, and test process and automation enhancements

Key Responsibilities

Practicals

Compensation & Benefits

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. 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. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis. The annual salary range for this full-time position is $92,000—$103,000 USD.

Benefits

How You’ll Plan Your Day

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com / async. 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.

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. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

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