Payroll Specialist (Brazil Payroll)

Purpose in Every Position Pebl puts a world of talent at your fingertips. With our AI-powered Global Work Platform™, companies can hire, pay, and manage employees in 185+ countries—removing risk, red tape, and guesswork from global growth. Backed by more than a decade of compliance leadership and local expertise, Pebl helps businesses move fast, stay compliant, and scale with confidence. With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere. Where Your Work Moves the Needle. At Pebl, every team member drives our success. Joining us means more than filling a role—you’re accountable for results and impact. Our values guide how we operate, execute, and collaborate across borders. By putting them into action, you’ll help us scale faster, compete harder, and lead the future of global work. What Makes You a Great Fit We are looking for a Payroll Specialist – Brazil to join our Payroll Operations team. This full-time position is ideal for an experienced Brazilian payroll professional who can serve as a trusted resource for complex payroll matters and is passionate about accuracy, compliance, and operational excellence. You will be responsible for supporting the end-to-end payroll lifecycle in Brazil, resolving complex payroll issues, ensuring compliance with Brazilian payroll and labor requirements, and partnering with internal teams and external providers to deliver accurate and timely payroll outcomes. As a subject matter expert in Brazilian payroll, you will also play an important role in strengthening our payroll operations, supporting process improvements, and providing guidance to other members of the Payroll team. In this role, you will spend the majority of your time (85% or more) resolving complex payroll matters and ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of payroll services. How You’ll Make an Impact: - Manage end-to-end payroll operations for Brazil, including payroll processing, validations, reconciliations, adjustments, and payroll close activities. - Review and resolve complex payroll matters related to earnings, deductions, benefits, taxes, social contributions, garnishments, leaves, and other payroll-related transactions. - Manage and validate Brazilian payroll requirements, including INSS, FGTS, IRRF, 13th salary, vacation payments (férias), terminations (rescisões), and other statutory payments and deductions. - Support and validate statutory payroll reporting and filings, including eSocial and other applicable Brazilian government requirements. - Ensure payroll is processed accurately and in compliance with Brazilian labor, tax, social security, and payroll regulations, as well as internal policies and controls. - Perform payroll reconciliations and investigate discrepancies between payroll results, funding, statutory liabilities, employee payments, and payroll records. - Partner with internal teams, clients, external payroll providers, and in-country vendors to investigate and resolve complex payroll matters. - Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for Brazil payroll questions and complex employee or client inquiries. - Support payroll implementations, process transitions, statutory changes, system enhancements, and operational rollouts. - Participate in testing payroll system enhancements, integrations, calculations, and regulatory updates. - Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes through stronger controls, documentation, standardization, automation, and technology. - Monitor payroll performance, SLAs, KPIs, and recurring issues, recommending corrective actions and process improvements when needed. - Provide guidance and support to Payroll Specialists and Payroll Administrators to promote accuracy, consistency, and continuity across payroll operations. - Provide backup support to the Payroll Manager and assist with urgent payroll matters and escalations when needed. Let’s Connect If You Have: - 3–5 years of hands-on Brazilian payroll experience, preferably within a payrol…