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.
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Job Description
We’re looking for a talented Workday payroll specialist based in Austin, to join our People Technology Team for a fixed term of 12 months. This role will oversee the implementation and maintenance of the payroll module working closely with the stakeholders and 3rd parties ensuring smooth service delivery and transition.
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 5500+ Wisers strong, with over 70 nationalities working in 25+ locations around the globe! This is a unique opportunity to join Europe’s most valuable fintech company at a pivotal time in evolving our global People technology, automation and data capability. Keeping a customer-first mindset, you’ll be working closely with our People Technology Lead in building, designing, delivering and maintaining the most critical people functions.
Your mission:
- Lead end-to-end payroll implementations, configurations and optimizations.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and 3rd parties to assess payroll requirements and design tailored solutions that are scalable.
- Provide technical expertise and deliver Workday configurations hands on as necessary for the projects.
- Conduct workshops, training sessions, and develop necessary documentation.
- Stay updated with latest Workday payroll and connected systems features and best practices
- Constantly assessing interdependencies and performing impact assessments with other Workday modules and related people functions in internal and external connected systems to deliver designs and make recommendations accordingly
- Consult with functional leaders and SMEs in the People team to design, develop, and implement technology solutions that increase operational efficiency, maintain compliance, and positively impact customer experience for People, candidates, employees, managers and business leaders.
- Building basic and advanced custom reports and extracting data requests.
- Help, advise and train the People team on using People tools best practice.
- Provide an excellent customer experience by troubleshooting complex problems and investigating and resolving errors quickly and efficiently.
- Collect, document and maintain security requirements and policies for user-level access to People applications.
A bit about you:
- Workday Payroll Certification (additional certifications such as Absence and Time Tracking would be advantageous)
- At least 5 years experience in Workday payroll implementations and configurations
- Strong understanding of payroll processes and compliance.
- Proven experience leading project teams, delivering successful payroll implementations.
- Hands-on experience in Workday technologies: Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Advanced Report Writer, Business Process Framework, Configurable Security, Calculated Fields, Custom fields & data analytics.
- You’ve played a role in a system implementation end to end.
- You’re analytically minded, a data and spreadsheets whiz who loves to solve problems and has the ability to use data to inform decisions.
- You can thrive in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment, able to flex your approach as needed and manage a busy, varied workload.
- You’re an exceptional communicator and great at building relationships across teams. Breaks down information into simple language for different stakeholders at different levels of business.
- Focus on security and confidentiality.
- Can spot opportunities, curious about data insights and proactively seeking insight and answers.
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is required.
What we offer:
- 🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company
- ✈️ Wisers can work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to
- 💪 An annual self-development budget
- 🩺 Medical, dental, & vision insurance – including HSA and FSA options
- 💝 Company-paid: Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and an EAP program
- ☀️ 25 days PTO, 15 sick days, 11 bank holidays, 5 compassionate leave days, 3 paid “Me” days and a paid volunteer day, annually
- 🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
- 👶🏼 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us
- 💰 401k with up to a 4% employer match
- 🏆 BuiltIn Award winner for Best Places to Work and Best Large Places to Work
- Click HERE for more info on our benefits (Austin)
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Additional Information
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We’re proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.
Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer’s needs and make sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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What We Do
We’re making a positive, irreversible change in the world of finance. Together.
People on every continent around the world are choosing Wise to help them live, travel and work internationally. We’re the fairest, easiest way to send money overseas.
Built by and for people who live global lives, we make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. This is money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.
For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B, but behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies and routes, that’s being designed, built and powered by our talented teams in cities around the world.
We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.
Why Work With Us
We are a mission-driven company, looking to change banking for the better. Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So, we’re building a new one. If you're looking for an autonomous work environment, where you'll face cool challenges, learn and grow, you'll like working at Wise
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Here at Wise we have a hybrid working model – a mix of working from home and from the office. Wisers can also work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to!
