Functional Payroll Consultant
Ready to take the next step in your international career? Ubiminds can support you!
Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their global teams. They curate top LATAM talent and connect professionals with long-term, high-impact opportunities while providing full employer-of-record support.
In this role, you’ll act as a Functional Payroll Consultant, working closely with payroll systems, HR platforms, and stakeholders to ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll processing, with a strong focus on Austria payroll.
Challenge
We’re looking for a Payroll-focused Functional Consultant with hands-on experience supporting end-to-end payroll operations and integrations.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of payroll operations, HRIS systems, and customer-facing consulting, ensuring data accuracy, compliance with local regulations, and smooth payroll execution—especially in complex European payroll environments.
Responsibilities:
- Support end-to-end payroll processing, ensuring accurate data flow from HRIS systems into payroll platforms.
- Work hands-on with payroll and HR systems such as CloudPay, UKG, and Workday.
- Analyze, validate, and transform employee and compensation data for payroll processing.
- Act as a functional point of contact for payroll-related topics, including occasional customer-facing interactions.
- Ensure payroll processes comply with Austrian labor and tax regulations.
- Support payroll cycles, reconciliations, audits, and issue resolution.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to improve payroll processes and data quality.
- Document payroll processes, configurations, and country-specific requirements.
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience in Payroll operations, preferably in EMEA.
- Practical experience working with CloudPay, UKG, and/or Workday.
- Proven ability to handle payroll data inputs, validations, and processing workflows.
- Solid understanding of Austria payroll regulations, including:
- Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) and wage structures.
- 13th and 14th salary payments (holiday and Christmas bonuses) and their special tax treatment.
- Mandatory Severance Pay Fund (Abfertigung Neu) contributions (1.53%).
- Progressive income tax system, including high-income brackets.
- Employer and employee social security contributions (health, pension, accident, unemployment).
- Experience working in customer-facing or stakeholder-facing roles.
- High attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
- Clear and confident English communication skills (written and verbal).
Nice to Have:
- Professional proficiency in German
- Experience with other European payrolls beyond Austria.
- Background in payroll implementations, migrations, or system integrations.
- Familiarity with compliance, audits, and payroll reporting.
- Experience working in global or distributed teams.
Team & Environment:
- International, distributed team environment.
- Close collaboration with HR, Finance, and Payroll stakeholders.
- Strong focus on accuracy, compliance, and process reliability.
- Opportunity to influence payroll best practices and improvements.
About Ubiminds
Our Culture
- People First. We are all about people!
- Challenge yourself. There’s always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence.
- Make it happen. Be ready to take challenges as they come. It’s all about attitude and commitment.
- We’re in this together. We work as a team, thrive as a team, and evolve as a team.
- Averaging on awesome. We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations.
- Keep it real. We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.
Perks and Benefits
As a Functional Payroll Consultant @Ubiminds, you will:
- You are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.
- Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.
- Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.
- Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).
- Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!
- Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level on your communication skills!
- Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)
- Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games
How our process works
- Interview with Tech Recruiter (chat about the job opening and your experiences)
- Client process (30-60 min interview)
- Offer (yay)