Payroll Specialist Lead - Brazil

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

We are seeking an experienced Brazil Payroll Specialist to fully own end-to-end payroll operations for Brazil. This role is responsible for accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing, detailed reconciliations, governance oversight, and structured root cause analysis to ensure operational excellence.

This is a high-accountability role requiring deep technical expertise in Brazilian payroll regulations, strong financial control capabilities, and a disciplined approach to compliance and documentation.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Payroll Ownership

• Own the complete payroll lifecycle for Brazil (EOR and/or GP, as applicable)

• Process monthly payroll, off-cycle runs, terminations, and statutory payments accurately and on time

• Ensure full compliance with Brazilian labor laws and tax regulations

• Serve as the primary operational subject matter expert for Brazil payroll

Reconciliations and Financial Controls

• Perform detailed monthly payroll reconciliations including gross-to-net validation

• Reconcile statutory contributions such as INSS, FGTS, IRRF, and other required filings

• Identify discrepancies and resolve variances prior to payroll finalization

• Partner with Finance to validate payroll funding, journal entries, and accruals

• Maintain structured reconciliation trackers and audit-ready documentation

Root Cause Analysis and Risk Mitigation

• Conduct structured root cause analysis for payroll discrepancies and escalations

• Identify systemic issues and implement corrective and preventative controls

• Track trends and recurring errors to reduce operational risk

• Escalate material risks with clear impact assessments and mitigation plans

Compliance and Governance

• Maintain current knowledge of Brazilian payroll legislation and regulatory updates

• Ensure compliance with required statutory processes including:

• eSocial

• SEFIP/GFIP

• DIRF / EFD-Reinf (as applicable)

• 13th salary requirements

• Vacation accrual and payment regulations

• Maintain complete and organized payroll evidence files

• Ensure adherence to internal control frameworks and audit standards

Documentation and Process Excellence

• Maintain and update standard operating procedures and country documentation

• Ensure payroll checklists reflect current regulatory requirements

• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and reduce manual risk

• Contribute to automation initiatives and system improvements

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with HR, Benefits, Finance, Legal, and Product teams as needed

• Support escalations with clear, data-driven explanations

• Provide subject matter expertise on Brazil payroll regulations

• Assist with internal and external audits

What you bring

• Several years of experience processing Brazil payroll end-to-end

• Strong knowledge of Brazilian labor law and statutory contributions

• Demonstrated experience performing detailed payroll reconciliations

• Experience conducting structured root cause analysis

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• High level of organization and documentation discipline

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in EOR or global payroll environments

• Exposure to payroll system implementations or in-housing transitions

• Experience working within controlled or audit-heavy environments

• Familiarity with process improvement or automation initiatives

Practicals

• You'll report to: Manager, Global Payroll Operations.

• Team: Payroll

• Location: Anywhere in the World

• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• (async) Profile review

• Interview with recruiter

• Interview with future manager

• Interview with Senior Manager

• Bar Raiser Interview

• (async) Offer

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is
$33,300—$84,250 USD

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere

• flexible paid time off

• flexible working hours (we are async)

• 16 weeks paid parental leave

• mental health support services

• stock options

• learning budget

• home office budget & IT equipment

• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.

• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.

• If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.