# Payroll Analyst \(LATAM\) - Company: [Onhires]() - Location: Latin America - Remote: Yes - Team: Finance / Legal - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: September 8, 2026 ## Job description ### Payroll Analyst (Staffing/EOR) | Remote (LATAM) | Full-time **About the company** Our client is a fast-growing global HR and payroll platform that helps businesses hire and manage employees compliantly across 180+ regions. Their integrated suite covers Employer of Record services, global payroll, contractor management, benefits, and compliance - powering a borderless economy for companies of every size. The LATAM payroll team is small and hands-on, and this role is central to how the company delivers accurate, timely payroll across key markets in the region while continuing to expand its footprint globally. **Role Mission** Support accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll operations across an assigned portfolio of LATAM markets, including Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia. You'll act as a trusted partner to the global payroll team, local payroll experts, and external providers, ensuring payroll inputs, calculations, and country-specific requirements are managed accurately and consistently. This role combines hands-on payroll delivery with process improvement and support for new market implementation, in a fast-growing international business. **Key Responsibilities** * Support end-to-end monthly payroll delivery across assigned LATAM markets - from input collection and review through validation, approvals, funding readiness, and output checks. * Gather, review, and validate payroll inputs, including new hires, salary changes, bonuses, leave impacts, deductions, terminations, and other employee lifecycle events. * Review payroll calculations and outputs, investigate discrepancies, complete reconciliations, and help ensure payroll is accurate and ready for approval and payment. * Maintain payroll calendars, checklists, trackers, calculation logic, validation rules, SOPs, and knowledge base materials for assigned countries. * Coordinate with local payroll providers and in-country experts to ensure country-specific payroll rules and requirements are reflected accurately in internal systems and workflows. * Support statutory payroll obligations across assigned countries, including government-mandated contributions, tax and reporting requirements, filing deadlines, and local compliance processes. * Respond to payroll queries and provide clear, timely support across LATAM working hours, with some overlap with a South Africa-based team during onboarding. * Liaise with local payroll experts primarily in Spanish and, where relevant, Portuguese; communicate requirements and findings to company stakeholders in English; investigate issues and escalate risks where appropriate. * Support the onboarding of new payroll markets and transitions from external providers to Playroll-managed processes, including process mapping, testing, validation, and operational readiness. * Identify opportunities to improve payroll accuracy, controls, efficiency, and scalability through better processes, documentation, systems, and automation. **Required Skills & Experience** * 2-5 years of experience as a Payroll Analyst or in payroll operations, payroll processing, payroll implementation, or a related operational/compliance role. * Hands-on experience supporting end-to-end payroll processing, including payroll inputs, calculations, validations, reconciliations, and employee lifecycle changes. * Strong knowledge of payroll practices and statutory requirements in at least one LATAM market (e.g., Argentina, Mexico, Colombia). * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate payroll issues and work through detail with accuracy. * Ability to manage multi-country payroll workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholder requirements across LATAM time zones in a fast-paced, evolving environment. * Fluent written and spoken English and Spanish. * High attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership. * Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise effectively. * Comfort working with spreadsheets, process tools, and payroll or operational systems. **Nice to Have** * Experience across multiple LATAM jurisdictions (e.g., Argentina and Mexico, or Argentina and Colombia). * Professional proficiency in Brazilian Portuguese. * Relevant qualification such as Chartered Accountant, Bachelor of Commerce, or similar (open to other backgrounds). * Experience with EOR, PEO, or global payroll outsourcing platforms (e.g., Deel, Remote, Oyster, ADP, CloudPay, Safeguard). * Exposure to payroll implementation, in-sourcing, or provider transitions. * Experience with [Monday.com](http://Monday.com) or similar process/workflow tools. **We're looking for someone who:** * takes ownership of payroll accuracy and compliance; * works independently and proactively across multiple countries and time zones; * is a logical, critical thinker comfortable with ambiguity and complexity; * enjoys building and improving processes rather than just running them; * is a strong culture fit - energetic, hands-on, and motivated to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. **What We Offer** * Fully remote role, based anywhere in LATAM. * Opportunity to shape payroll processes in a fast-growing international company. * Health insurance contribution. * Share incentive plan. * Generous PTO plus 4 weeks of "work from anywhere" per year. * Continuous learning support (courses, mentorship). * International, ambitious team environment. If you're passionate about payroll accuracy, cross-border compliance, and building reliable processes in a fast-moving global business, we'd love to hear from you. ## Apply [Apply on Onhires]() Canonical job page: