Migration Assurance Specialist

Remote; Iberia; Remote; PEN 309,000 - 481,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk, Audit & Compliance professional to validate payroll migrations across multiple countries, auditing data before moves and producing evidence to inform go-live readiness.

You will work with Product, Engineering and country specialists to maintain the audit trail, test end-to-end calculations, and monitor initial payroll cycles while promoting robust controls and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience with payroll migration and parallel runs.
• Knowledge of multi-country payroll obligations.
• Ability to analyze variances and identify root causes.
• Proven testing discipline and defect closure.
• Strong data skills and ability to explain anomalies.
• Fluent English communication.
• Remote work experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Audit migration data before each move, covering employee records, contracts, pay items and taxes.
• Process parallel runs and test calculations, filings, reports and integrations.
• Reconcile outputs and chase variances to root cause.
• Log defects with Product and Engineering and retest for closure.
• Assess country readiness and prepare evidence for decision-makers.
• Maintain audit trails for post-go-live validation.
• Monitor initial payroll cycles and ensure controls remain effective.
• Identify recurring findings and improve test packs and controls.
• Collaborate with Payroll Operations, Product, Engineering and country specialists.

Skills

Payroll migration experience

Multi-country payroll experience

Variance analysis

Testing discipline

Data analytics

Automation & AI capabilities

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

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. 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.

The opportunity

Remote is migrating customer payrolls from third party providers onto its own payroll engines. This role executes assurance behind each migration, auditing the data before it moves, processing the parallel runs, investigating variances to root cause and producing the evidence that informs the readiness decision. It sits within Payroll Risk, Audit & Compliance rather than within delivery, so validation stays independent.

What this job can offer you

• Responsibility for completing the validation, testing and evidence that informs the go live decision for each country
• Statutory payroll breadth across several very different jurisdictions
• An assurance framework to work within and scope to extend it. What you build for one country becomes the test packs and playbooks used by the next
• Direct line into Product and Engineering on defects and design risks
• A route into broader payroll risk, audit or compliance ownership as the programme scales

Key Responsibilities

• Audit migration data before each move, covering employee records, contracts, pay items, historic data, tax and benefits, and apply the agreed data quality bar a country must meet before it is cleared to migrate
• Process parallel runs against the established test approach, proposing refinements where it does not fit a country, and execute agreed statutory and edge-case coverage alongside end to end testing of calculations, filings, reports and integrations
• Reconcile outputs and analyse variances, chasing every material variance to root cause in data, configuration or calculation logic
• Log defects with Product and Engineering, retest and confirm closure before cutover
• Assess country readiness against established gates and prepare the evidence, scoring and recommendation used by the accountable decision-makers under the four-eyes control model.
• Maintain the audit evidence trail, so what was tested, found and fixed can be demonstrated after the fact
• Monitor the first payroll cycles after go live, manage defects to resolution and confirm exit criteria, SOPs and ongoing controls before a country moves into business as usual
• Identify recurring findings into shared test packs and controls, and automate reconciliation and validation wherever possible
• Partner with Payroll Operations, Product, Engineering, Compliance and country specialists, raising risks early with a recommendation attached

What you bring

• Hands on experience of payroll migration, implementation or parallel running, ideally engine to engine or provider to provider. You have processed parallel runs yourself, not only reviewed the output
• Multi country payroll experience in operations, compliance, audit or QA, with working knowledge of statutory obligations in more than one jurisdiction
• Reconciliation and variance analysis skills. A variance that roughly nets off does not satisfy you
• Testing discipline. You own edge case and statutory scenario coverage, and you hold defects through to closure
• Strong data skills, and the ability to explain what an anomaly means to people who do not work in data
• The judgement to uphold the standard under delivery pressure, state plainly when the evidence does not support readiness, recognise and recommend when a risk is genuinely acceptable and lift material gaps clearly
• Clear written findings a senior stakeholder can act on and the ability to influence without direct authority
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities
• Writes and speaks fluent English
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Practicals

• You’ll report to: Manager, Payroll Risk, Audit & Compliance
• Team: Payroll - Payroll Risk, Audit & Compliance
• Team size:
• Location: For this position we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify;
• Start date: As soon as possible