Payroll Business Operations Specialist
Remote
Global Payroll Product Specialist
Deel
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Review and interpret advisory packs to ensure comprehensive understanding of country-specific payroll and legislative requirements.
- Lead and support discussions with compliance and local experts to clarify legislative and functional needs.
- Configure payroll system solutions, including back-end configuration and programming language calculations for pay elements, statutory rates, codes, and country-specific fields.
- Create specifications and development tickets for payroll calculations and features.
- Document configuration for knowledge-sharing, audit purposes, and training materials.
- Execute functional and regression tests using predefined test books and acceptance criteria.
- Partner with Business Analysts and QA to validate that builds meet legislative and compliance standards.
- Log and document test results, escalating defects or compliance gaps; support UAT and resolve defects during testing cycles.
- Work closely with Solution Designers, Product Architects, Business Analysts, and cross-functional teams to deliver scoped requirements; oversee task delivery and participate in Agile ceremonies.
- Lead post-deployment reviews to ensure smooth handover to stakeholders.
- Build expertise in global payroll, HR, and financial systems and actively seek mentorship and feedback to grow.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience in payroll configuration, including back-end configuration and payroll calculation programming.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, HR/Payroll, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong understanding of payroll elements, codes, formulas, statutory rates, and country-specific requirements.
- Experience analysing advisory information and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Proficiency in Excel (intermediate level, including lookups and formulas).
- Experience with report writing tools (preferred).
- Basic understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and team collaboration practices.
- Ability to speak, read, and write English fluently.
- Authorization to work in the country where you live (applicants must indicate visa/sponsorship status).
