Payroll Data Administrator - Americas

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an opportunity to build foundational payroll expertise in a fast-scaling, global environment. As a Payroll Operations Coordinator - Americas, you’ll support the accurate and compliant execution of payroll across multiple regions in the Americas ensuring employee data is clean, complete, and ready for processing according to established guidelines.

This role is critical to payroll quality. You will operate at the intersection of data integrity, compliance, and execution — supporting payroll teams to run smoothly and on time.

What you bring

• Entry-level career experience in a payroll administration or HR operations role
• High attention to detail — you catch inconsistencies others miss.
• Strong data handling skills; comfortable working in spreadsheets (Excel / Google Sheets).
• An analytical mindset with the ability to investigate and resolve data discrepancies.
• Ability to follow structured processes while identifying opportunities to improve them.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and globally distributed environment.
• Clear and concise communication skills in English.
• Strong sense of ownership — you take responsibility for data accuracy and task completion.

What’s nice to have:

• Exposure to payroll concepts, employee data management, or compliance requirements.
• Experience working with HRIS, payroll systems, or ticketing tools.
• Experience working remotely and across both the North American and Latin American markets

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and validate employee payroll data within internal systems, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and audit readiness against defined procedures.
• Perform structured data checks and reconciliations to identify and resolve discrepancies ahead of payroll processing.
• Partner closely with Payroll Specialists and Managers to support payroll cycle readiness across Americas countries.
• Execute recurring operational tasks tied to payroll inputs (e.g. data updates, reporting support, expense management, mail management, and document validation).
• Support internal stakeholders (e.g. Benefits, Finance, Onboarding) to ensure data flows correctly into payroll.
• Track and manage tasks through internal workflows and ticketing systems, ensuring SLAs are met.
• Contribute to documentation and standard operating procedures to improve consistency and scalability.
• Identify inefficiencies and propose improvements to streamline payroll operations and reduce manual effort.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Manager, Payroll Operations
• Team: Payroll Operations - Americas
• Location: LATAM
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Interview with team member
4. Bar Raiser Interview
5. Prior employment verification check

 

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$53,250—$59,900 USD

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.