[Hiring] Payroll Transformation Specialist @Solen Software Group

Role Description

We are looking for a Payroll Transformation Specialist to support payroll operations, integrations, and process improvement across Solen and its portfolio companies. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving payroll challenges, working with data, and building reliable processes. You do not need to be an expert in every country. What matters is that you are curious, organized, and happy to figure out the answers.

Key Responsibilities

• Payroll Operations and Integration
  • Support payroll integration for newly acquired companies.
  • Coordinate payroll implementations, provider transitions, testing, and go-live activities.
  • Collect, validate, and reconcile employee and payroll data.
  • Review payroll inputs and outputs for accuracy and completeness.
  • Support new hires, terminations, compensation changes, deductions, taxes, and one-time payments.
  • Help resolve payroll issues accurately and on time.
• Compliance and Controls
  • Maintain payroll calendars, checklists, approvals, reconciliations, and audit-ready records.
  • Support payroll tax registrations, notices, statutory reporting, and year-end activities.
  • Reconcile payroll deductions with benefits and HR system records.
  • Partner with Finance, HR, portfolio leaders, EORs, and local payroll providers.
  • Identify and escalate compliance or employee-impacting risks promptly.
• Systems and Process Improvement
  • Document payroll processes and develop standard procedures, templates, and controls.
  • Support payroll system configuration, testing, data cleanup, and reporting.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify and automate manual work.
  • Track implementation milestones, deadlines, risks, and outstanding decisions.
  • Help standardize payroll practices while accounting for local requirements.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in payroll administration, implementation, HR operations, accounting support, or a related area.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, payroll conversions, or a global workforce.
• Excellent organization, analytical ability, and attention to detail.
• Ability to investigate discrepancies and clearly communicate findings.
• Comfort working across multiple companies, countries, currencies, and time zones.
• Sound judgment when handling confidential payroll information.
• A practical, responsive, and service-minded approach.

Requirements

• Exposure to payroll in Brazil, Portugal, Canada, the UK, or the United States (helpful, but not required).
• Experience with Deel, Rippling, Multiplier, Paylocity, Paychex, TriNet, or similar platforms (helpful, but not required).
• Payroll certification or relevant coursework (helpful, but not required).

Solen-isms (How We Operate)

• Ownership Mindset: We own the mission. We don't wait to be told. We lead, fix, and build as if it were ours.
• Benchmark to Best: We seek out excellence. We measure ourselves against the best and adapt quickly.
• Openly Self-Critical: Leaders go first: they surface their misses early and ask for direct feedback.
• Disagree & Commit: Leaders disagree openly and constructively, valuing truth to avoid bureaucracy.
• Figureitoutiveness: Embracing challenges and fostering growth, leaders thrive on hard work.
• Mutual Elevation: Committed to growth, elevating teams, and developing future leaders.
• Learn-it-alls: Embracing failure as part of growth and progress.
• Pioneering: Driven by opportunity, using first principles thinking.
• Will to Win: Leaders relentlessly pursue potential and reject mediocrity.
• Dialectical: We learn through conversation, valuing disagreement as a tool for alignment.
• Frugality: Achieving more with less, focusing on quality and long-term value.
• Candor: We communicate with integrity, transparency, and respect.
• Kaizen: Continuous improvement as a way of life, making hundreds of small upgrades.

Recruitment Disclaimer

Solen Software Group will never request payment, banking information, or other sensitive personal or financial details during any stage of the recruitment process. All official communication will come from a verified @solensoftwaregroup.com email address. Any outreach outside these standards should be disregarded and reported through our official channels. We thank all applicants for their interest in joining Solen Software Group. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.