Payroll Specialist

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 3M+ endpoints and 1M+ identities worldwide, elevating under-resourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

We are seeking a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to support our growing global payroll operations. Reporting directly to the Payroll Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring that our US and international team members are paid accurately and on time. This role requires a versatile professional capable of executing US payroll within Workday while coordinating international payroll cycles through Papaya Global.

• →Support the execution of semi-monthly payroll cycles, monthly pay cycles, and off-cycle payments for domestic and international employees within Workday and Papaya, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• →Assist in coordinating international payroll operations across global entities using Papaya Global, ensuring employee data, pay elements, and reporting are aligned with internal payroll processes.
• →Perform payroll-related data management within the payroll system.
• →Conduct pre-payroll audits and reconciliations to validate gross-to-net calculations and ensure deductions such as taxes are applied accurately.
• →Serve as a point of contact for payroll-related inquiries, including pay discrepancies, tax elections, and benefit deductions.
• →Maintain awareness of federal, state, and local payroll regulations while supporting global payroll compliance requirements in partnership with external payroll providers.
• →Generate payroll reports from Workday, Papaya, and other payroll platforms to support finance, accounting, and internal audits.
• →Partner with the People Team to ensure employee lifecycle changes (new hires, terminations, compensation updates, and leaves of absence) are accurately reflected across payroll systems.

• 2+ years of hands-on payroll experience with direct experience with Papaya Global or similar international payroll aggregators is highly preferred.
• 1+ years of experience in Workday Payroll is preferred. Proficiency with Workday EIBs and reporting is a significant advantage.
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs) to reconcile disparate data sets between US and International systems.
• Ability to move between different payroll engines and logic (US vs. Global) in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.