Payroll Product Specialist

Summary

Join Deel, a global leader in international payroll and compliance, as a Payroll Product Specialist. You will play a key role in launching payroll products in Japan, ensuring compliance with local regulations. This involves collaborating with various teams, analyzing advisory packs, defining build requirements, and managing project delivery. You will also be responsible for configuring payroll calculations, ensuring quality assurance, and creating training materials. The ideal candidate possesses strong experience in payroll configuration, a deep understanding of Japanese labor laws, and excellent analytical skills. Deel offers competitive compensation and benefits, including remote work flexibility and stock grant opportunities.

Requirements

• Payroll Qualification with a minimum (3) years of experience actively involved in payroll configuration. Experience in working with multifunctional teams
• Ability to analyze, interpret and question information received from Advisory
• An understanding of Payroll elements and codes
• Configuring formulas & categorization of pay elements
• Configuration and maintenance of statutory rates and tables
• Configuration and maintenance of country-specific fields
• Intermediate Excel Skills (lookups, formulas, concatenating etc.)
• An understanding of country specific legislative concepts
• Strong understanding of Japan labor laws and legislation
• Must be based in Japan or anywhere within the APAC region

Responsibilities

• Lead payroll product implementation and expansion in new countries, ensuring compliance with local regulations and successful product launch
• Analyze advisory packs and hold meetings to clarify legislative compliance requirements
• Define and document functional and legislative build requirements with Payroll BAs
• Identify and escalate new system requirements for country-specific needs
• Manage task delivery and communicate any delays to ensure timely project completion
• Collaborate to create specifications and development tickets for payroll calculations and features
• Ensure product delivery aligns with Japan-specific requirements and resolve compliance issues
• Work with BAs and QA to ensure project builds meet legislative compliance standards
• Document and create training materials for country build
• Conduct post-deployment meetings to the relevant stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of working experience in back-end configuration
• 3 years working experience with programming language calculations
• Experience with a report writing tool

Benefits

• Provided computer equipment tailored to your role
• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including WeWork access where available