Manager, Payroll Operations - APAC

Remote; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 77,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere

Flexible PTO

Async hours

Parental leave 16 weeks

Home office budget

Stock options

Wellness budget

Job summary

Remote is hiring a Manager, Payroll Operations to lead a global payroll function and a distributed team across regions. You will own payroll processing, ensure compliance, and manage relationships with providers and stakeholders.

The role requires extensive AU/NZ payroll experience, strong leadership, and fluency in English within an asynchronous, remote-first environment. Compensation reflects global operations and location-agnostic work.

Qualifications

• Extensive regional/global payroll ops experience, esp. Australia/New Zealand.
• Understanding of global payroll best practices.
• Experience with multiple country payroll implementations and third-party payroll providers.
• People management with a collaborative leadership style.
• Proficient in SAP and Excel/Google Sheets.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the Payroll Operations team.
• Own end-to-end payroll processing to ensure timeliness, accuracy and compliance.
• Act as primary liaison between internal/external payroll stakeholders.
• Stay updated on international payroll laws/regulations.
• Ensure compliance with corporate and country regulations.
• Manage relationships with payroll, accounting and service providers.
• Develop KPIs and SLAs to drive team performance.

Skills

Payroll operations

AU/NZ payroll

Global payroll

Stakeholder mgmt

People management

SAP

Excel/Google Sheets

Analytical mindset

Async work

Fluent English

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world.

What This Job Can Offer You

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Manager, Payroll Operations, joining our Global Payroll Operations team. As a dynamic and energetic professional, the Manager, Payroll Operations will own the planning, and implementation of our Payroll chapter.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience in regional / global payroll operations specifically in Australia/ New Zealand
• Understanding of global payroll best practices.
• Experience in implementing payroll in multiple countries and in managing relationships with third party payroll services.
• You are passionate about managing people, and you don't micromanage your reports.
• 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.
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but is considered a plus.
• You write and speak fluent English.

Key Responsibilities

• The Payroll team will report to you and you will provide them with guidance and mentorship.
  • The Manager, Payroll Operations will own the complete payroll function, ensuring payroll is processed on time, accurately, and in compliance with country specific government regulations.
• Serve as a point of contact between internal and external stakeholders on all payroll related matters.
• Lead the Payroll team, unblock and support them.
• Be up to date with various international payroll laws / regulations.
• Ensure compliance with all corporate and country-specific regulations, policies and procedures.
• Manages existing relationships with payroll, accounting and payroll service providers.
• Develop and implement best practices, key performance indicators and SLA metrics for the team.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Senior Manager, Payroll Operations
• Team: Payroll Operations
• Location: APAC
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with team members
• Interview with future manager
• Interview with Senior Director, Payroll Operations
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is $45,000—$104,650 USD

Benefits

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
• mental health support services
• stock options
• home office budget & IT equipment

How You’ll Plan Your Day (and Life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.