Payroll Product Specialist

Summary

Join Deel, a global leader in international payroll and compliance, as a Payspace Payroll Product Configurator. You will play a crucial role in building and configuring payroll products, ensuring compliance with local tax legislation in new countries. This involves in-depth analysis of advisory packs, defining project requirements, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring product delivery aligns with country-specific needs. You will conduct thorough testing, obtain necessary approvals, and maintain compliance standards. The role requires extensive payroll expertise, technical configuration skills, and strong analytical abilities. Deel offers competitive compensation and benefits, including remote work flexibility and stock grant opportunities.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in payroll configuration, with deep knowledge of payroll payment items, codes, and country-specific legislative requirements
• Proven ability to configure formulas, categorize pay elements, and maintain statutory rates, tables, and country-specific fields
• Strong aptitude for analyzing, interpreting, and critically evaluating information from in-country advisors and other sources
• Demonstrated success in working effectively with Product, Quality Assurance, and Development teams
• Intermediate skills, including lookups, formulas, and advanced data manipulation
• Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills to handle complex scenarios
• Skilled in translating functional requirements into detailed technical specifications, ensuring compliance with legislative and product standards

Responsibilities

• Conducting in-depth analysis of advisory packs, initiating clarifying discussions with advisors, and ensuring a comprehensive understanding of country-specific requirements
• Defining project requirements across various team pillars, identifying and assessing new system requirements, and escalating complex issues to the Lead for resolution
• Write specifications, and coordinate tasks with Payroll Business Analysts and QA. Collaborate with the in-country Compliance team (BA/QA) and in-country UAT to ensure product delivery is aligned with country specific requirements
• Obtaining country build approvals, conducting post-deployment evaluations, and maintaining compliance and quality standards in project builds
• Research country-specific Legislative regulations ensuring compliance with the appropriate Tax Authority
• Translation of related legislative documents from the official language of the build country to business English
• Configure and test payroll elements for compliance, and create clear, developer-friendly documentation to drive accurate coding by the Development Department
• Analyse 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 configuration for country-specific legislative requirements
• Lead country legislative build, 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 country-specific requirements and resolve configuration & compliance issues
• Collaborate 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 experience in product configuration
• Familiarity with programming language calculations, such as JavaScript

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