Payroll Data Administrator – Benelux

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Carry out pre-pay, run, and post-pay processes by utilizing SOPs, checklists, and templates, ensuring accurate and timely data handling.

• Input standard data (timesheets, allowances, deductions) and verify source data against existing records.

• Conduct predefined checks and reconcile basic discrepancies, escalating any issues that exceed your authority.

• Establish and maintain employee payroll records and documentation to meet audit standards.

• Implement documented payroll procedures and identify when documentation requires updating.

• Uphold data confidentiality and possess basic awareness of compliance, including GDPR, POPIA, or equivalent regulations in your country.

• Assist in managing expenses and approvals, ensuring accurate and timely processing and routing of items.

• Perform regular data reconciliation, verifying inputs and records against source information.

• Handle mail and payroll correspondence, ensuring accurate preparation, sending, and filing.

• Keep payroll records, trackers, and status logs updated, while executing general payroll support tasks under supervision.

• Collaborate effectively within the team, taking direction from senior colleagues and applying constructive feedback.

• Clearly communicate progress and obstacles in team channels and updates.

• Recognize minor process gaps and propose enhancements.

• Embrace AI-assisted tools and workflows as they are introduced, utilizing them for improved accuracy and efficiency, and sharing acquired knowledge.

⛳️ Requirements

• Familiarity with payroll principles, SOPs, checklists, and data privacy regulations.

• Knowledge of statutory settings, earnings, deductions, and banking validation processes.

• Ability to perform routine data entry and validations with accuracy and timeliness.

• Proficient in Google Sheets or Excel, possessing strong attention to detail and organizational skills.

• A collaborative communicator who promptly escalates exceptions and learns swiftly from feedback.

• Dependable, detail-oriented, and composed when meeting deadlines.

• Willing to adopt new tools and AI-assisted workflows as they are introduced.

• Fluent in English; proficiency in French and/or Dutch is an advantage.

• Alignment with Remote's values and departmental competencies, as well as comfort with asynchronous work methods.

• Familiarity with Google Workspace (Sheets, Drive), Microsoft Excel, Notion, Slack, Zendesk, and Monday.com.

• Experience with payroll software such as Apsal, Easypay, or AFAS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere

• Flexible paid time off

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously)

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave

• Budget allocated for co-working spaces, learning, and wellness (including gym memberships)

• Mental health support services

• Stock options

• Home office budget & IT equipment

• Emphasis on life-work balance

• Employee Resource Groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)

• Accommodation support during interviews and beyond