Payroll Systems Analyst - Wave

EducationPals; United States; Remote; USD 88,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Fertility assistance

Flexible vacation (30–40 days)

Job summary

EducationPals is seeking a payroll professional with fluency in English and French to lead multi-country payroll processes. You will oversee end-to-end payroll activities, including inputs, calendars, and gross-to-net calculations, and you will help standardize how payroll requests are received and resolved.

Key responsibilities include training the payroll team on new processes and building an in-house payroll-to-finance reconciliation tool to improve accuracy and traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, HR, IS, Business Administration, or related field.
• Experience in HRIS, payroll operations or payroll accounting.
• Understanding end-to-end payroll processes including gross-to-net, deductions and payments.

Responsibilities

• Define how payroll requests, changes and issues are received, tracked and resolved via internal service desk.
• Train Payroll team members on new processes and tools.

Skills

English

French

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/HR/IS/Business Administration or related field

Tools

HRIS

Payroll systems

Payroll accounting

Job description

Fluent in English and French. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field. + years of experience in HRIS, payroll operations, payroll systems or payroll accounting, ideally in a multi-country or multi-entity organization. Experience and understanding of end-to-end payroll processes, including inputs, calendars and cut-offs, gross‑to‑net, statutory deductions, and payments. Hands‑on experience reconciling payroll to t

• + Defining how payroll requests, changes and issues are received, tracked and resolved, for example through our internal service desk, so that nothing depends on email threads or individual memory.
• + Training Payroll team members on new processes and tools, and acting as their primary partner for systems questions.
• Building our in‑house payroll‑to‑finance reconciliation tool [...] ## Key details
• Employees in remote positions at Wave can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -8 and +4) with reliable internet access in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Uganda, Kenya, or Ghana.
• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, we are offering an annual gross salary range of $88,100 -$125,900 depending on your level and location.
• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
• months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year.
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.

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