Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.
When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:
🌏 Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries
👩💻Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs
🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female
🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class
🦄 Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion!
💚 B Corp status achieved in 2023
Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!
Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. This role requires you to be based within AMER time zones to ensure optimal collaboration with our teams and clients.
What you'll do…
We are looking for a dedicated and knowledgeable Senior Payroll Specialist to join our Global Payroll Centre of Excellence team, who will be focusing on U.S. global payroll operations. In this role, you will handle the end-to-end payroll process for our U.S.-based clients, ensuring accurate and compliant payroll processing in line with federal, state, and local regulations. This position requires in-depth knowledge of U.S. payroll laws, meticulous attention to detail, and a customer-focused approach.
Key Responsibilities:
- Payroll Processing: Process payroll accurately and on time for multiple PEO US clients, adhering to all relevant statutory requirements.
- Tax Reporting: Collaborate with the tax and legal teams to ensure accurate payroll tax deductions, filings, and compliance with tax regulations.
- Data transformation and analytics: Experienced in data transformation, skilled in rapid data manipulation, Excel, Google Sheets, and advanced formulas. Proficient in standardizing software outputs.
- Reporting: Generate payroll reports as needed for clients, internal teams, and compliance purposes, ensuring data accuracy.
- Compliance: Ensure payroll processes adhere to country tax and compliance regulations
- Collaboration: Work closely with external vendors, Payroll Operations and Finance teams to coordinate payroll activities and ensure the correct processing of taxes, benefits, and deductions.
- Knowledge:Stay up to date with federal, state, and local payroll laws, proactively advising clients on relevant updates.
- Query Resolution: Respond to and resolve payroll inquiries, providing expert support and guidance on USA payroll legislation.
- Process Improvement: Continuously review and refine payroll processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and compliance
What We're Looking For :
- Experience: 5+ years of US payroll experience processing within a PEO or similar environment.
- Technical Skills: Knowledge of PrismHR (or equivalent), advanced Excel/Gsheet skills, experience of data transformation tooling
- Organizational skills: Strong organizational skills and the ability to develop and maintain an organized structure.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of payroll tax laws, and other payroll-related compliance requirements.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and provide actionable insights.
- Detail-oriented: High attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in payroll data, reports, and reconciliations.
- Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Problem-Solving: Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on resolving payroll discrepancies and improving processes.
You'll also need...
- A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
- Fluency in English is required
Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌 We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍
Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.
We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.
💌 How YOU work
Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.
- Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.
- Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).
- Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
- Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.
- Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).
- WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!
✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone
At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.
Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email [email protected] with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.
Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.
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What We Do
Our mission is to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. We believe it should be easy for any company to hire any person, no matter where either is located in the world.
Now more than ever, smart companies can't allow the location of their HQ to dictate the size of their talent pool. Your next transformative hire could be anywhere.
We also believe the most in-demand knowledge workers today want to leverage a global career perspective, the freedom to live where they want, and the security of full-fledged employment with benefits.
But today, the flow between talent and opportunity around the globe is still blocked by the costs and legal complexity companies face before they can fully employ in another country. Cross-border hiring is still arcane, remarkably un-transformed by software, and ripe for disruption.
We are also motivated by the opportunity for positive social impact. Removing these barriers makes the world a better place in three ways: 1) It helps redress inequalities of access to opportunity, 2) It allows for the distribution of wealth to places other than the major cities of the world, and 3) It supports the environmentally-friendly and business-smart shift to remote working.
Our software platform is created to solve for the complexities of giving full-time, full-fledged employment to anyone in the world, while providing a delightful experience to employers and employees.
With Oyster, you can hire remote full-time employees anywhere in the world, provide fully-compliant payroll, and give your valued remote hires around the world the benefits and perks they deserve.
Oyster has Pending B Corporation status. Read our social impact thesis: https://www.oysterhr.com/impact-thesis
