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Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether 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 lives easier and save them money.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\n We’re currently hiring for aSenior Payroll Specialist based in São Paulo to join our global Payroll Team.\nAs Wise continues to expand its global footprint-both by entering new regional locations and rapidly increasing headcount within existing entities-our payroll complexity is growing. To safeguard compliance, protect employee experience, and scale efficiently, we are looking for a payroll superstar with a keen eye for accuracy, attention to detail, and a desire to share your expertise.\nIn this role, you will act as a critical operational anchor, helping to manage increased vendor complexity and mitigate heightened audit and legislative risks. By owning these foundational components, you will allow our leadership team to focus on macro-level expansion strategy. Reporting to the AMER Payroll Lead, you’ll bring a strong understanding of North American and Latin American Payroll alongside international payroll experience, ensuring the accurate, effective, and timely processing of multiple countries each pay period.\nWise 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 5000+ Wisers strong, with over 90 nationalities working in 25+ locations around the globe! We’re looking for a professional who lives our values, will help grow our culture, and drive our mission forward.\nYour Mission\nThis exciting role joins a team responsible for overall global payroll, including process, compliance, audit, and reconciliation across multiple countries. To safeguard our scaling operations, you will manage increased vendor complexity, mitigate heightened audit and legislative risks, and act as an operational anchor to allow the Payroll Lead to focus on macro-level expansion strategy.\nThe Specifics\nTeam Governance & Operations\nOperational Oversight: Help manage the regional payroll team, enforce strict payroll cutoffs, and serve as the final approval authority for standard pay runs.\nLeadership Back-up: Serve as the designated regional lead and approval authority when the Payroll Lead is out of office.\nCross-Functional Gatekeeping: Act as the primary point of contact for Tax, Finance, and People Operations (POps), ensuring clear boundaries and deflecting out-of-scope work to protect team capacity.\nVendor & SLA Management\nPartner Accountability: Track Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and monitor the operational performance of key regional payroll partners (including Deel, CloudPay, RSM, and OSV).\nVendor Execution: Partner to develop robust and detailed processes to ensure execution of payroll in an accurate, effective, efficient, and timely manner.\nAudit, Risk, & Quality Assurance\nAudit Ownership: Lead and manage comprehensive audit walkthroughs with both internal and external audit teams.\nRisk Mitigation: Proactively monitor and manage logged risk items to ensure swift resolution and compliance.\nRoot Cause Analysis (RCA): Apply advanced problem-solving skills to identify, analyze, and resolve payroll discrepancies or process bottlenecks at their root.\nCore Processing & Stakeholder Collaboration\nPrepare, double-check, cross-check, review, and analyze payrolls according to established deadlines.\nManage first- and second-line queries from employees, other teams, and external providers, ensuring that SLAs are met and issues are resolved efficiently.\nBuild strong, trust-based relationships with internal and external stakeholders through clear, transparent, and timely communication.\nContribute to and lead payroll-related projects, such as system implementations, process automation, and regional expansions.\nCompliance, Financials, & Reporting\nLegislative Tracking: Monitor and track regional legislation updates impacting Wise, ensuring all changes are successfully implemented through to production.\nRegulatory Alignment: Ensure compliance across all locations globally, including International, Federal, State, and local payroll tax laws while meeting applicable timelines and responding to regulatory agency inquiries.\nFinancial Outputs: Maintain responsibility for outputs of your payrolls, such as payroll journals, GL files, historical payroll documentation, and ad-hoc reporting.\nYour Challenges\nWe’re evolving our payroll model - you’ll have the chance to bring your brainpower and prior experience to help us build an outstanding payroll team as we continue to grow and scale.\nYou’ll assist in creating efficiencies in our current ways of working and/or develop new ways while we implement payroll processing using our new global system.\n Experience: Prior in-house payroll processing experience of at least 3+ years in a high-growth, product or tech-led company (helping you navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and innovative problem-solving).\nSystem Expertise: 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience with global payroll systeml, including running payroll cycles, handling payroll audits/reconciliations, troubleshooting system issues, and supporting Workday payroll implementations/upgrades.\nScope: Experience with Latam and North America payrolls \nSkills: Advanced tech skills-particularly with Excel (pivot tables, charts, formulas, etc.)-and high proficiency in using modern payroll software.\nCommunication:Fluent in English, both written and verbal.\nNice to Haves:\nIdeally, a professional payroll certification to demonstrate your expertise within the field.\nAdditional education such as a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience.\nHave worked with Workday Payroll.\n Language Requirement: Resumes must be submitted in English. Resumes in Portuguese will not be considered.\nHealth and dental allowance for you and your dependents - CarePlus (Master 1)\nCompany-paid: Life Insurance, and an EAP program\nPaid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 “Me” days + 1 volunteer day, annually\nA paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years\n8-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us and child care assistance\nTransportation vouchers\nMeal (708 BRL per month) and food (1,166 BRL per month) vouchers\nTotalPass access to 3,500 gyms and studios throughout Brazil\nBenefits:Click here to see the benefits we offer!\nFor 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.\nWe're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.\nInclusive 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.\nIf you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.\nKeep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7328,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Money Transfer & Remittances","Currency Exchange & FX Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T21:09:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":55,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.612,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":60264,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-payroll-specialist-4","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-payroll-specialist-4.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T16:54:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":17575,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3856},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3856"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwise-senior-payroll-specialist-4"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwise-senior-payroll-specialist-4"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwise-senior-payroll-specialist-4"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/wise-senior-payroll-specialist-4\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwise-senior-payroll-specialist-4"}]}