Migration Assurance Specialist

Remote; United States; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote is seeking a dedicated professional to validate payroll migrations across multiple countries. You will audit data before migrations, run parallel tests, analyze variances, and ensure readiness for go-live through rigorous evidence and defects management.

In this remote role, you will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Compliance and country specialists to build scalable test packs and controls. Excellent English and cross-country payroll experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on payroll migration experience across multiple countries.
• Experience with parallel runs and verifying outputs.
• Strong data reconciliation and variance analysis skills.
• Rigorous testing discipline with edge-case coverage.
• Proven ability to own defects through closure.
• Experience building automation and AI-assisted validation.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Audit migration data before movement, covering employee records, contracts, pay items, historic data, tax and benefits.
• Run parallel tests, refine process for country-specific needs, validate calculations, filings and reports.
• Reconcile outputs and investigate variances to root cause.
• Log defects with Product/Engineering and verify closure before go-live.
• Assess country readiness and prepare evidence and recommendations for decision-makers.
• Maintain audit trails of tested and fixed items.
• Monitor first payroll cycles post-go-live and manage defects to resolution.
• Identify recurring findings and contribute to shared test packs and controls.
• Collaborate with Payroll Operations, Product, Engineering, Compliance and country specialists.

Skills

Payroll migration

Parallel runs

Data reconciliation

Variance analysis

Testing discipline

Automation

AI capabilities

Fluent English

Tools

Product and Engineering liaison

Job description

About Remote

Remote is building the infrastructure that makes global payroll and employment possible for everyone, everywhere. Our team is made up of people who want to own a piece of that work, not just contribute to it. That work happens across six continents, only Antarctica left to go, entirely remote. It also requires real fluency with AI in every role, not just familiarity with it.

Our standards are high, and the ownership is total. You'll have the trust and space to find your own way to the best answer, and the support to see it through, because that's how we build things that actually work at this scale. In return, your career grows faster, because at Remote, growth is tied to results. We're founded on the principle that where someone lives should never limit what they can achieve, and we operate exactly that way.

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 elevate 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 welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify;
• Start date: As soon as possible