Senior Payroll Officer

Since 1994, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Salvador and several other countries.

The role:

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. The Senior Payroll Officer runs biweekly payroll for about 900 employees in 12 states, hourly and salaried. Remote, open to candidates across Brazil. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Duties:

• Review timecards for missing punches, overtime and PTO before each run
• Maintain payroll records and documentation for audits
• Answer employee questions about paychecks, withholding and direct deposit
• Enter new hires, terminations, pay changes and deductions
• Reconcile payroll registers to the general ledger each period

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of hands-on payroll processing, ideally multi-state
• Experience with ADP, Paylocity, Paycom, UKG or Workday
• Comfortable with garnishments and tax withholding setup
• Clear communicator with employees who are upset about their check
• High school diploma required; associate or bachelor's degree preferred
• Strong Excel for reconciliations
• Discreet with confidential pay and personal data

Preferred:

• Canadian payroll
• Union payroll or certified payroll for prevailing wage jobs
• Bilingual English and Spanish
• Experience with a payroll system conversion

R$6,600-R$7,800 monthly

Benefits:

• Private health insurance
• Training budget
• Flexible hours
• Meal vouchers
• Gym membership

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bittern Labs.