Senior Payroll Specialist

**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.We’re currently hiring for a **Payroll Specialist** to join our global Payroll Team based in BrazilWe’re looking for a payroll superstar, with a keen eye for accuracy, attention to detail and a desire to share your Brazilian payroll expertise and knowledge with our Global Payroll Team.Reporting to the Payroll Lead, you’ll have above-average understanding of Brazil payroll, 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 payroll 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 3000+ Wisers strong, with over 90 nationalities working in 25+ locations around the globe We’re looking for a Payroll Specialist 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 process, including compliance, internal 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 initially include partnering with our third-party payroll vendor and their advisors to strive for accuracy, reduce errors, and process payroll more efficiently. You will partner to develop robust & detailed processes to ensure the execution of payroll in an effective, efficient, and timely manner. Cross-training will be keyThis amazing role will also participate by providing a variety of deliverables, including global projects, pre-post payroll journals, internal audits, and more. Also, you will provide input regarding team goals, KPIs, efficiencies, process improvements, and future optimization of our payroll team - all while providing outstanding customer service. Always.**The specifics**:- You’ll be working as a part of a wider Global Payroll Team, servicing 25+ countries using Workday (HRIS), while focusing specifically on our Brazilian Wisers- 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 partner with your Lead to recommend new approaches, policy and procedure changes towards continuous improvement within the team- You’ll ensure your payrolls balance to your inputs - always- You’ll be responsible for all documentation within your historical payroll files- Work with the Payroll team and the Payroll Lead to provide additional processing/transaction support, as needed**Compliance**:- You’ll ensure compliance across local payroll tax laws, while meeting applicable timelines effectively and efficiently- Stay current with regulation changes affecting your payrolls to ensure accuracy and service to our customers- Partner to complete and respond to regulatory agency inquiries**Financials, Audits, and Reporting**:- Responsible for outputs of your payrolls, such as payroll journals, GL files, and ad-hoc reporting- You’ll ensure all reporting and data is completed timely**Your challenges**- ** We’re evolving our payroll model** - you’ll have the chance to bring your brainpower and prior experience to help us build an outstanding payroll team as we continue to grow and scale- You’ll assist to create **efficiencies in our current ways of working** and help us **develop new ways** of payroll processing**A bit about you**- ** Prior Brazilian payroll processing experience of at least 4+ years in a high growth, product or service led company** - this assists you to know how to deal with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and come up with innovative solutions- ** Payroll skills** - you’ll have experience in preparing, processing, correcting, and auditing most aspects of payroll - as well as the ability to learn new payroll processes efficiently- ** Fluent in both English and Portuguese**, both written and verbal - Other languages are always welcome- ** Above average tech skills** - particularly with Google Docs, Sheets, and Microsoft Excel for use of pivot tables, charts, etc - as well as being profici