Payroll Specialist Lead

Summary

Join Remote as a Payroll Specialist Lead and take ownership of end-to-end payroll processing in the UAE, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. Manage key stakeholder relationships across Finance, Product, and Engineering, drive process improvements, mentor payroll specialists, and contribute to optimizing payroll operations. This exciting opportunity offers a chance to become a subject matter expert for the country, managing relationships with key stakeholders. You will process payroll, handle statutory filing, and ensure compliance with DMCC, MOL, or WPS requirements. The role also involves ensuring data integrity, accounting/reconciliations, focusing on KPIs and SLAs, implementing and improving processes, and mentoring payroll specialists. Remote offers competitive benefits, including flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and more. The base salary range is $33,300 to $74,850 USD.

Requirements

• In-house payroll management or equivalent experience leading the full end-to-end processing of UAE payroll
• Hands-on experience with DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre), MOL (Ministry of Labour), or WPS (Wages Protection System) workflows
• Knowledge of payroll best practices
• Proficient in using software tools like SAP, Excel / Google Sheet
• An analytical mindset with great problem-solving abilities
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact
• Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work
• You understand the need and ideal to work largely asynchronously
• Writes and speaks fluent English

Responsibilities

• Act as a true subject matter expert for the country. Manage existing relationships with key stakeholder within Payroll Implementation, Finance, Product, Engineers
• Process full end to end payroll in-house, statutory filing requirements, exceptions, approvals, payments and compliance
• Ensure payroll operations are fully compliant with DMCC, MOL, or WPS requirements, including related reporting and processing standards
• Ensure full data integrity and quality
• Accounting/reconciliations
• Focus on KPIs and SLAs
• Implement and improve processes
• Mentor and support payroll specialists
• Back up regional managers during times of absence

Preferred Qualifications

It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async )
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces