Senior Payroll Implementation Specialist - NL & Belgium

About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! What this job can offer you Our Global Payroll team sits at the core of Remote's mission — ensuring that employees everywhere are paid accurately, compliantly, and on time. We operate across dozens of countries, managing the full spectrum of payroll complexity from onboarding through to live operations. As part of this team, you will work alongside implementation specialists, country leads, and payroll experts who bring best-in-class local knowledge to a globally distributed organisation. We move fast, solve hard problems, and take full ownership of our outcomes. As a Senior Payroll Implementation Specialist for the Netherlands and Belgium, you will own the end-to-end onboarding of new clients, bringing deep country expertise to every implementation and ensuring that every go-live is a success. You will work directly with clients, internal stakeholders, and payroll software providers — with full visibility and accountability across the implementation lifecycle. What you bring Several years of direct, hands-on payroll experience in the Netherlands, with solid legislative knowledge covering loonheffing, premies WW/ZW/WIA, Zorgverzekeringswet, and the 30% ruling Several years of direct, hands-on payroll experience in Belgium, including ONSS/RSZ, Dimona, DmfA quarterly cycles, and sector CLA structures Proven payroll implementation experience, including owning or significantly contributing to end-to-end projects from client kick-off through go-live Direct working experience with AFAS for Dutch payroll; experience with EasyPay for Belgian payroll is a strong advantage Strong communication skills for explaining payroll processes and compliance requirements to clients and stakeholders Structured mindset with strong problem-solving ability and attention to detail Experience with payroll reconciliations and parallel run validation Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, fully remote environment and default to action Constantly thinking of ways to improve and speed up your work You understand the need and value of working largely asynchronously Fluent written and spoken English; Dutch o