Sr. Designer, UI (Contract)

Accountabilities:

• Support payroll integration activities for newly acquired businesses, helping coordinate implementations, payroll provider transitions, testing, and go-live activities.
• Collect, validate, reconcile, and review employee and payroll data to ensure accuracy and completeness across payroll processes.
• Support payroll activities related to new hires, terminations, compensation changes, deductions, taxes, and one-time payments.
• Investigate and help resolve payroll issues accurately and within required timelines, escalating employee-impacting or compliance-related risks when appropriate.
• Maintain payroll calendars, checklists, approval workflows, reconciliations, and audit-ready documentation.
• Support payroll tax registrations, tax notices, statutory reporting, and year-end payroll activities.
• Reconcile payroll deductions against benefits and HR system records and coordinate with relevant stakeholders to resolve discrepancies.
• Partner with Finance, HR, portfolio leadership, employers of record, and local payroll providers to ensure smooth and reliable payroll operations.
• Document payroll processes and develop standardized procedures, templates, controls, and other operational resources.
• Support payroll system configuration, testing, data cleanup, reporting, and implementation activities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate manual payroll processes while accounting for local requirements.
• Track implementation milestones, deadlines, risks, open questions, and outstanding decisions to keep payroll initiatives moving forward.
• Contribute to a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, candid communication, collaboration, and practical problem-solving.

Requirements:

• 2–5 years of experience in payroll administration, payroll implementation, HR operations, accounting support, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills, with the ability to work confidently with payroll and employee data.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, payroll conversions, implementations, or a global workforce is preferred.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills, with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to investigate discrepancies methodically.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain findings and coordinate with multiple stakeholders.
• Comfort working across multiple companies, countries, currencies, and time zones.
• Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential employee and payroll information.
• Practical, responsive, service-minded approach with a strong sense of ownership and willingness to take initiative.
• Curiosity and adaptability, with the ability to learn unfamiliar payroll systems, country-specific requirements, and processes independently.
• Exposure to payroll operations in Brazil, Portugal, Canada, the United Kingdom, or the United States is helpful but not required.
• Experience with payroll or HR platforms such as Deel, Rippling, Multiplier, Paylocity, Paychex, TriNet, or similar systems is a plus.
• Payroll certification or relevant coursework is an advantage.

Benefits:

• Full-time position with a remote work arrangement in the United States.
• Opportunity to work across payroll transformation, integrations, systems, and process improvement initiatives.
• Exposure to multiple businesses, countries, payroll environments, currencies, and time zones.
• Opportunity to contribute to payroll standardization, automation, and operational improvements.
• Cross-functional collaboration with HR, Finance, portfolio leadership, EORs, and payroll providers.
• Environment that emphasizes ownership, continuous learning, initiative, candid communication, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunity to build and strengthen sc