Payroll Expert
Deel
Cloud
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Ensure accurate and timely execution of payroll in Brazil and other trained countries
- Support clients with local payroll expertise and manage accurate end-to-end payroll processing
- Prepare and reconcile internal payroll reports, ensuring compliance with local tax authorities
- Own critical local payroll and HR processes, including setting up involuntary deductions
- Support onboarding and offboarding of employees on record in the region
- Schedule payroll expenses collections and reconcile collections to expenses
- Assess and improve rapid growth processes and procedures, ensuring compliance
- Stay informed of relevant local regulatory and policy changes and communicate them across teams
- Work cross-functionally to provide expertise on local payroll and HR matters
- Answer complex payroll and HR related questions from employees and clients
- Identify and implement process and service improvements; participate in internal projects
- Perform administrative duties, follow escalation matrix, and keep reports and performance metrics up to date
- Generate and maintain internal control reports, documents, files, and payroll calendars
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or a related field from an accredited institution
- 4+ years of payroll and HR experience with experience in relevant country
- Strong working knowledge of local regulations and policies related to payroll and HR
- Advanced level of English (mandatory)
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks while meeting deadlines timely and accurately
- Strong verbal and written skills to connect with clients and align with various stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal skills, explaining complex issues at an understandable level
- Advanced knowledge of local payroll software solutions
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets
- Experience managing technology and external payroll providers is an advantage
- Experience with implementation of new payrolls on an industry-recognized payroll solution is preferred
- Experience in multiple country jurisdictions is an advantage
- Experience with multiple payroll technologies is an advantage
- Experience processing all payrolls (Advance, Monthly, Vacation, Termination, etc.)
- Experience processing occasional payroll routines (allowances, sales commission, awards, gratuities; bonuses; stock options, etc.)
- Experience with manual and batch processing of employee movements (Admission, Leave, Returns, Movements, etc.)
- Experience issuing and verifying taxes related to payroll
- Experience calculating expatriate payroll, including payment in two countries
- Experience validating and transmitting statutory filings
- Experience with annual payroll routines
- Customer service experience acting as a specialist in clarifying calculations and payroll routines
- Experience generating and maintaining internal control reports, documents and files
- Experience generating and maintaining payroll calendars