Remote Jobs for Payroll Analysts, Payroll Specialists, & Payroll Managers

Leads accurate, compliant payroll operations for more than 1,000 employees across the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Manages a payroll team, oversees tax compliance, reconciliations, controls, funding, audits, vendors, employee support, and payroll systems. Partners with Accounting, Finance, HR, Treasury, and Legal while driving process improvements and system upgrades.

Own the strategy, process design, metrics, and partner success for Arketa’s embedded payroll offering. Design onboarding, support, escalation, documentation, and handoff processes; track operational performance; support complex partner relationships; manage the payroll provider; coach an Implementation Account Manager and Payroll Specialist; and coordinate with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Customer Success to improve implementations and support.

Leads U.S. and Canadian payroll tax compliance, filings, payments, audits, reconciliations, year-end reporting, controls, and regulatory monitoring. Manages a team of six payroll tax professionals while partnering with Payroll Operations, Technology, Product Management, HR, Accounting, vendors, auditors, and government agencies. Drives process improvements, system enhancements, testing, strategic initiatives, and organizational change across complex, multi-jurisdiction payroll operations.

Leads U.S. and Canadian payroll tax compliance, including filings, payments, audits, reconciliations, year-end reporting, regulatory monitoring, and agency relations. Manages and develops a team of six payroll tax professionals, establishes internal controls, drives process improvements, and partners with Payroll Operations, Technology, Product Management, HR, Finance, vendors, auditors, and government agencies on system enhancements and strategic initiatives.

Oversee biweekly payroll processing for more than 1,200 employees across 35+ states. Ensure accurate wages, deductions, taxes, PTO administration, records, reporting, audits, and compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Maintain payroll systems, resolve employee inquiries, recommend process improvements, and collaborate with HR and Accounting. The role requires strong payroll, HRIS, analytical, organizational, and compliance expertise, with occasional evening or weekend work.

Provides Canadian payroll tax services for assigned customers, managing daily cases, customer communications, tax remittances, and year-end T4, T4A, Releve 1, and Releve 2 activities. Researches and resolves multi-jurisdiction payroll tax issues, supports escalations, maintains service-level and quality targets, safeguards confidential data, and collaborates with internal teams to stabilize service delivery.

Lead end-to-end employer payroll onboarding, including account setup, tax configuration, deductions, benefits, garnishments, data migration, audits, and first payrolls. Train software partners to onboard employers independently by creating programs, materials, exercises, and job aids. Manage onboarding pipelines, resolve payroll issues, improve playbooks, identify recurring errors, and collaborate with product and engineering to automate processes.

Resolve complex payroll corrections, amended returns, tax notices, and multi-jurisdiction payroll issues for employer customers. Diagnose root causes, coordinate with tax operations, product, and engineering, explain resolutions to partners, and help document and automate recurring processes. The role requires payroll-provider experience across prior-quarter and prior-year amendments, state and local taxes, agency notices, and Canadian equivalents.

Provide expert US payroll support to partners and customers, resolve complex payroll and tax issues, educate support teams, lead training, and build scalable knowledge and customer experience processes. The role collaborates with product and engineering on platform improvements, audits payroll operations, analyzes data, and serves as a primary partner contact. It requires strong payroll expertise, customer communication, spreadsheet skills, ticketing-system experience, and comfort working autonomously in a fast-paced startup.

Manage the payroll workstream across UKG and Workday HCM initiatives. Responsibilities include planning, scheduling, requirements, configuration coordination, integrations, testing, data validation, risk and issue tracking, stakeholder communication, cutover, readiness, training, adoption, transition, and stabilization. The role partners with payroll, HR, finance, IT, vendors, and senior leaders while maintaining project documentation, dashboards, governance routines, and compliance standards.

Participate in a paid, remote interview about your SMB’s payroll and HR software stack. Discuss administrative workflows, employee data and compensation management, software features, integrations, usability, competitor platforms, and challenges faced by SMB HR teams. Participants should be active HR, payroll, operations, or business professionals with direct experience evaluating, implementing, or administering HR and payroll systems.

Prospect and win new B2B HCM and payroll clients through cold calling, networking, consultative selling, proposal development, negotiation, and closing. Manage the full sales cycle, achieve revenue targets, maintain CRM records, analyze sales outcomes, identify cross-selling opportunities, and collaborate with implementation and client service teams to onboard new clients. Provide market and competitive insights while supporting ongoing professional development.

Leads the architecture, configuration, deployment, security, governance, and continuous improvement of Workday HCM and Payroll solutions. Partners with HR, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to define requirements, recommend solutions, manage initiatives, resolve complex cross-module issues, maintain documentation, and ensure compliance. Mentors technical and consulting teams while aligning Workday modules and integrations with organizational goals.

Process end-to-end payroll and timekeeping, including wage calculations, deductions, pay adjustments, certified payroll, and discrepancy resolution. Support HR administration through onboarding, separations, employment verifications, background checks, and HRIS updates. Ensure compliance with payroll taxes, federal contractor requirements, prevailing wage laws, and employment regulations while safeguarding confidential employee information.

Administers Canadian and U.S. payroll and employee benefits, including wage calculations, tax withholdings, deductions, garnishments, enrollments, invoices, reporting, vendor coordination, and compliance. Responds to employee inquiries, analyzes payroll and benefits data, identifies savings and policy improvements, and leads process enhancements, including implementing Workday for Canadian payroll.

Lead and deliver Oracle Cloud HCM implementation projects from initiation through closure. Define scope, plans, budgets, and staffing; manage risks, issues, QA, and stakeholder communication; present status to leadership and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

Process accurate, timely US and Canada payrolls; collaborate with internal teams and external providers; maintain payroll records; support audits, reporting, reconciliations, and variance analysis; answer employee payroll questions; monitor legislative changes; ensure compliance; meet KPIs and SLAs; and contribute to process improvements.

Lead semi-monthly payroll processing for approximately 800 U.S. and Canadian employees. Ensure compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local tax regulations; resolve payroll issues; coordinate benefits deductions and external vendors; support year-end filings, audits, and reporting; improve payroll processes; and mentor a Payroll Administrator.

Lead semi-monthly U.S. and Canadian payroll for approximately 800 employees, ensuring accurate processing and compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local regulations. Resolve payroll issues, coordinate benefits deductions and vendors, manage year-end tax filings and audits, provide reporting and analysis, improve payroll processes, and mentor a Payroll Administrator.

Manage accurate, timely payroll processing for European countries, ensuring compliance with local labor and tax laws. Validate timecards, audit payroll registers, resolve discrepancies, support T&A training, create SOPs, implement payroll policies, and lead process improvement projects while partnering with stakeholders to address payroll inquiries.

Supports human resources and payroll operations for a healthcare facility. Responsibilities include employee recruitment, onboarding, orientation, benefits administration, employment records, compliance reporting, payroll processing, garnishments, tax calculations, reconciliations, payroll audits, leave accruals, and termination checks. The role also coordinates training, safety activities, employee health examinations, incident documentation, and facility surveys while maintaining confidentiality and collaborating with HR, finance, risk management, and facility leadership.

The Solutions Consultant leads technical scoping, workflow mapping, solution design, partner migrations, and implementations for accounting and bookkeeping partners. The role supports sales through product demonstrations and technical consulting, translates complex needs into scalable workflows, identifies risks, resolves technical roadblocks, and gathers feedback to influence product development. It requires accounting or bookkeeping operations experience, cloud accounting ecosystem knowledge, SaaS pre-sales or technical account management experience, and strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Supports facility HR administration and payroll operations, including employee orientation, recruitment, onboarding, benefits administration, employment records, payroll processing, garnishments, tax liabilities, reconciliations, audits, and compliance reporting. Coordinates training, health examinations, safety activities, and emergency drills while maintaining confidentiality and employee records. May supervise an HR Assistant and partner with HR and risk management teams on complex cases.

Oversee end-to-end multi-state payroll processing for approximately 450 employees, including payroll inputs, adjustments, audits, reconciliations, tax compliance, and issue resolution. Serve as the Workday Payroll subject matter expert, managing configurations, testing, controls, and change documentation. Coordinate with HR, HRIS, Finance, employees, and third-party payroll providers to resolve issues, maintain data integrity, support regulatory updates, and improve payroll processes.

Processes semimonthly U.S. payroll, including wages, deductions, benefits, garnishments, and multi-state tax filings. Supports payroll tax reconciliations, year-end W-2 processing, tax notices, and international payroll coordination with external providers. Collaborates with HR, Legal, and Finance, uses Excel and AI-powered tools for validation and reconciliation, and escalates complex tax or compliance matters.