Payroll Systems Analyst (Fully Remote)

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

• 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.

Reconciliation and support:

• 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.

Background and team:

• Fluent in English and French with 3+ years in HRIS, payroll operations, or payroll accounting.
• Experience with multi-country payroll, general ledger reconciliation, and provider data flows.
• You'll join a high-growth fintech on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent.

Wave

Wave is building financial services that work without bank accounts, making Africa the first cashless continent. The company has millions of users across 9 countries, is growing fast, and fosters autonomy with world-class investors.