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Remote is a global employment platform that enables businesses to recruit, pay, and manage international teams compliantly. The company operates fully remote across 6 continents with a focus on innovation, automation, and AI integration.
The Payroll Specialist Lead (US) is a mid-level individual contributor role within the Global Operations team, focused on US PEO payroll execution. This position combines hands-on payroll operations with operational expertise and mentorship of other payroll specialists, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute end-to-end payroll operations for the US PEO environment, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations
- Validate payroll inputs, calculations, and outputs while maintaining data integrity across all payroll cycles
- Manage payroll exceptions, adjustments, and reconciliations, escalating complex issues as needed
- Support operational implementation of payroll processes, including system updates, statutory changes, and new program rollouts
- Serve as a point of contact for internal teams and external stakeholders regarding payroll execution and compliance
- Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, documentation, and operational workflows
- Participate in testing payroll system enhancements and updates
- Provide support and guidance to other payroll specialists to maintain continuity and quality
- Monitor and contribute to payroll performance metrics, including SLAs and KPIs
Required Qualifications:
- Proven experience in end-to-end payroll execution within US PEO or similar environment, including validations, reconciliations, and statutory filings
- Knowledge of US federal, state, and local payroll regulations and best practices
- Experience implementing payroll processes or contributing to operational rollouts
- Strong analytical skills with ability to identify issues, interpret data, and resolve exceptions
- Proficiency in payroll systems and ability to quickly learn new operational tools; automation or AI-assisted workflow experience is a plus
- Comfortable operating independently in remote-first, asynchronous work environment
- Collaborative mindset with strong communication skills
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple payroll cycles and deadlines
- High integrity and discretion with sensitive payroll information
- Multi-country payroll experience is a plus but not required
