About the role
Our HR team plays a key role in supporting Plata’s growth by ensuring efficient, compliant, and scalable people operations. Payroll is a critical function within this area, connecting HR, Finance, and Accounting to ensure accurate employee compensation, reliable reporting, and a seamless employee experience.
As our business continues to grow, we are transforming our payroll operations to strengthen internal processes, implement robust controls, and build a sustainable model that can support our future needs.
The Payroll Team Lead is responsible for: • Managing end-to-end monthly payroll operations for 150+ employees in Colombia, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely payments. • Leading some transitions of payroll services ensuring business continuity, accurate data migration, and effective knowledge transfer. • Designing and implementing standardized payroll processes, validation procedures, reconciliations, and internal controls. • Ensuring compliance with Colombian labor legislation, payroll taxation, social security, statutory benefits, and collective bargaining agreements. • Managing relationships with external payroll providers and acting as the main point of contact for HR, Finance, Accounting, and other internal stakeholders. • Ensuring accurate payroll reporting, employee cost analysis, and timely delivery of financial information. • Leading process optimization, automation, and the roadmap to bring payroll operations in-house. • Supporting employees and internal teams with payroll-related inquiries and compensation matters.
Challenges that await you: • Build transparent, well-documented, and scalable payroll processes from the ground up. • Strengthen payroll governance by implementing robust controls, reconciliations, and risk prevention mechanisms. • Coordinate multiple stakeholders across HR, Finance, Accounting, and external providers, including international teams. • Lead the transformation towards an in-house payroll model defining the systems, resources, processes, and capabilities required. • Support a growing organization while maintaining high standards of accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.
What makes you a great fit: • 5+ years of hands-on experience managing end-to-end payroll operations, with strong expertise in Colombian payroll and labor legislation. • Proven experience managing outsourced payroll providers and leading payroll operations or process transformation initiatives. • Strong knowledge of payroll taxation, social security contributions, statutory benefits, termination settlements, and collective bargaining agreements. • Experience designing payroll controls, reconciliations, reporting procedures, and payroll accounting processes. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to confidently lead meetings and explain complex payroll matters to local and international teams. • Fluent English (B2+/C1), both written and spoken. • Strong analytical skills, advanced Excel proficiency, and experience working with payroll systems and large datasets. • A proactive, detail-oriented, and ownership-driven mindset, with the ability to independently lead cross-functional projects and turn challenges into structured, actionable solutions.
Our ways of working: • Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions • Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication • Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community • Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together • High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances
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