Global Payroll Reconciliation & Automation Analyst

Wave; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wave is building financial services that work without bank accounts, making Africa the first cashless continent. We are seeking a Payroll Operations professional in the United States with 3+ years in HRIS/payroll to drive multi-country payroll reconciliation and data integrity.

Join a high-growth fintech team to align standards, automate ingestion, and coordinate updates for statutory compliance while supporting global payroll processes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in HRIS, payroll operations, or payroll accounting.
• Experience with multi-country payroll and GL reconciliation.
• Experience with provider data flows.
• Fluent in English and French.

Responsibilities

• Map how payroll runs today in each market, identifying manual or duplicated effort.
• Align global payroll standards, system controls, and RACIs while respecting local statutory requirements.
• Define how payroll requests, changes, and issues are received and resolved.
• Own the design and delivery of an internal tool reconciling payroll outputs against HRIS and the general ledger.
• Automate data ingestion and build exception reporting so teams focus on discrepancies.
• Support HRIS-to-payroll data flows and coordinate testing of legislative and system updates.

Skills

Payroll operations

HRIS

GL reconciliation

Provider data flows

Bilingual English/French

Job description

Wave is building financial services that work without bank accounts, making Africa the first cashless continent. We are seeking a Payroll Operations professional in the United States with 3+ years in HRIS/payroll to drive multi-country payroll reconciliation and data integrity.

Join a high-growth fintech team to align standards, automate ingestion, and coordinate updates for statutory compliance while supporting global payroll processes.