Senior Payroll Specialist

🕒 August 17

🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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Oyster

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

👥 HR Tech

Consulting • Logistics • HR Tech

Oyster® is an automated global employment platform that simplifies the process of hiring and managing international talent. With coverage in 180+ countries, Oyster provides solutions for global payroll, compliance, employee benefits, and talent mobility, allowing companies to onboard and manage both full-time employees and contractors efficiently. By leveraging deep local knowledge and expert guidance, Oyster helps businesses navigate the complexities of international hiring and scaling their workforce globally.

📋 Description

• Own the complete Dutch payroll cycle in-house, accurately, compliantly, and on time • Validate employee payroll master data, including hires, terminations, salary changes, variable pay, benefits, absences, and garnishments • Perform pre- and post-payroll validations, investigate discrepancies, and implement corrective actions • Own Belastingdienst submissions for monthly loonaangifte and annual jaaropgave • Set up and manage required government accesses, including Belastingdienst and UWV • Configure and maintain the in-house payroll system • Test legislative updates, troubleshoot issues, and partner with Product to improve automation and scalability • Advise the business on loonheffing, sociale verzekeringen, Dutch arbeidsrecht, 30% ruling applications, and CAO interpretation • Oversee payroll journals, GL mappings, Finance reconciliations, and data integrity • Handle complex client payroll escalations as the key point of contact • Prepare statutory and ad-hoc reports, including EU Pay Transparency Directive, AVG/GDPR, WKR, and works council documentation • Provide data and documentation for internal and external audits • Improve processes, coach junior specialists, back up Regional Managers, and maintain playbooks and SOPs • Serve as the lead in-house Dutch payroll expert and help establish best-in-class payroll standards at scale

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years running the complete native (in-house) payroll process for the Netherlands • Comfortable independently handling a high volume of payslips per month • Advanced, hands-on AFAS and/or Nmbrs by Visma and/or Loket.nl experience • PDL and/or VPS certification and/or NIRPA Register Salarisadministrateur (RSa) registration • Deep, current working knowledge of Dutch wage tax, social insurance, and labor law • Experience advising stakeholders directly on payroll matters • Dutch at C1/C2 level • Fluent English for collaborating with the async global team • Experience handling complex, sensitive client escalations • Analytical, productivity-focused and automation-oriented mindset • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving cross-functional change • Some experience coaching or mentoring less experienced colleagues • Comfortable working largely asynchronously in a fast-paced, remote-first environment • Broader accounting background or qualification, such as RA/AA accountancy qualification, is desirable • Experience delivering cross-functional HR/Payroll projects is desirable • Hands-on capability with AI tools for payroll or operations workflows is desirable • Strong data transformation skills and practical experience with data analytics platforms are desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere, subject to authorization to work where you live • 40 days off per year, including holidays and vacation, or more if required locally • Plumm mental well-being service • Monthly wellbeing allowance in ThanksBen wallet • At least three months’ paid parental leave for all new parents • Job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally • WFH stipend for laptop and home office equipment • Remote-first, asynchronous and collaborative work environment