Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their life easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission.

Job Description

We’re currently hiring for a Sr. Payroll Specialist based in Austin to join our NorthAm Payroll Team. The role will be based in Austin, Texas and is a fixed-term contract role lasting 4 months.

We’re looking for a payroll superstar, with a keen eye for accuracy, attention to detail and a desire to share your payroll expertise and knowledge with our Global Payroll Team.

Reporting to the America's Payroll Lead, you’ll have above-average understanding of international payrolls, especially across the US, its overall function, and how our team provides excellent service to others. You’ll be responsible for the accurate, effective, and timely processing of your multiple payrolls/ countries for each pay period.

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the world’s first platform to offer true multi-currency banking. We’re 5000+ Wisers strong, with over 90 nationalities working in 25+ locations around the globe! We’re looking for a leader who lives our values, will help grow our culture, and drive our mission forward! 🚀

Your mission:

This exciting role will join a team responsible for the overall global payroll, including process, compliance, audit and reconciliation across multiple countries for Wise.

• You’ll complete a variety of daily, weekly, monthly, annual and ad-hoc tasks to ensure your payrolls are processed in accordance ahead of payroll deadlines.
• This role will include partnering with our multiple third-party payroll vendors and their advisors to strive for accuracy, reduce errors, and process payroll more efficiently. 
• You’ll partner to develop robust & detailed processes to ensure the execution of payroll in an effective, efficient, and timely manner. Cross-training will be key!
• This role will also participate by providing a variety of deliverables, including global projects, pre-post payroll journals, internal audits, and more. 
• You’ll also provide input to team goals, KPIs, efficiencies, process improvements, and future optimization of our payroll team - all while providing outstanding customer service. Always.

The specifics:

• You’ll prepare, double-check, cross-check, review and analyze payrolls according to the established deadlines
• You’ll be completely responsible to ensure the timely submission of your payroll inputs to our third party payroll provider
• You’ll ensure payrolls balance to your inputs - always
• Managing first and second line queries from employees, other teams and external providers, ensuring that SLAs are met and issues are resolved efficiently.
• You’ll be responsible for all documentation within your historical payroll files
• Continuously drive for process improvement and lead future optimisations of the payroll area. Recommending new approaches, monitoring policy and make procedure changes towards continuous improvement within the team 
• Continue to increase Subject Matter Expertise on your allocated locations, on all payroll and legislative matters, providing support, as needed, to others
• Develop robust & detailed processes to ensure the execution of payroll in an accurate, effective, efficient and timely manner.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with payroll and tax vendors, driving accuracy and compliance in all payroll related processes.
• Work with the Payroll team and the Senior Payroll Lead to provide additional processing/transaction support, as needed

A bit about you

• Prior payroll in-house processing experience of at least 3+ years in a high growth, product or tech led company - this assists you to know how to deal with ambiguity, shifting priorities and come up with innovative solutions 
• Experience processing multi-state and/or international payrolls is required
• Strong payroll skills - you’ll have experience in all forms of preparing, processing, correcting, and auditing with all aspects of payroll - as well as the ability to learn new payroll processes efficiently
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal - Other languages are always welcome!
• Above average tech skills – particularly with Excel, where you’ll need to know your way around pivot tables, charts, sheets, formulas etc - as well as being proficient in using payroll software

Nice to haves:

• Ideally a professional payroll certification to demonstrate your expertise within the field of payroll
• Additional education such as a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience
• Mexican and/or Brazilian payroll experience 

Stuff that’ll come naturally to you:

• Collaborative - you’ll have a passion and skill for building strong relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Detail focused - you’ll have an eye for the details and an appreciation of data and analytics, using these two skills to drive your decisions
• Adaptable - you will be as comfortable working with ambiguity as you are with certainly. We need someone who can be agile enough to respond to changing priorities, but be able to hold clear on the long term path ahead
• Curiosity to learn, grow - we don’t expect you to be an expert, but we’ll need you to have a positive, can-do attitude - with a willingness to learn new things
• Ability to multi-task - you must be able to handle multiple tasks - often at the same time. You’ll also have the ability to start, stop, pick-up and complete tasks on a recurring basis 
• Teamwork focused - You excel in a teamwork-oriented setting. This role requires you to partner with your peers and cross-check of assigned payrolls 

Key Benefits: 

• 💵 $71,000 - 90,000 salary
• 🚀 RSU's in a rapidly growing company 
• 💪 An annual self-development budget
• 🩺 Medical, dental, & vision insurance – including HSA and FSA options
• 💝 Company-paid: Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and an EAP program
• 💻 Flexible working model – a mix of working from home and from the office
• ☀️ 25 days PTO, 15 sick days, 11 holidays, 5 compassionate leave days, 3 paid “Me” days and a paid volunteer day, annually
• 🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years 
• 👶🏼 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us
• 💰 401k with up to a 4% employer match
• 🏆 2023 Austin BuiltIn Best Award winner for Best Places to Work and Best Large Places to Work

Find out more about our benefits in our Austin location.

Must already be legally authorized to work in the US, we cannot provide Visas for this role.

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Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We’re proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.

Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer’s needs and make sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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