About Smartwyre
Smartwyre delivers commercial software (SaaS) to agricultural input businesses - the manufacturers and distributors of seeds, chemicals and fertiliser. These companies, which range from multinational enterprises to smaller, family-owned retailers, are based in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Our solutions help them manage pricing, incentives and transactional information in order to improve their business performance and better serve the world’s farmers.
Today, Smartwyre consists of a team of approximately 90 full-time professionals organised across our Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Data Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Corporate functions.
We’re a "remote-first" company with core teams in Denver, CO; Raleigh-Durham, NC; and London, United Kingdom. Come join us!
About the role
We are looking for a HR & Payroll Specialist to join our corporate team reporting directly to the Leadership team. The HR & Payroll Specialist will focus on ensuring all HR administration and compliance is up to date and relevant for all employees. The position will also be responsible for managing payroll for UK and US employees. This role will also focus on process improvements and work on ad hoc projects to support the team and wider business.
Your Responsibilities
- Be a first point of contact for all HR related questions.
- Manage all HR operations tasks including writing contracts, letters, and processes.
- Assist with updating policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
- Ensure employment law and HR policy is applied for countries we hire employees in.
- Draft and send offer letters, T&C’s to new hires and save down to folders.
- Manage the onboarding and off-boarding process to ensure a smooth employee experience.
- Serve as the systems-administrator for key HR systems.
- Recruitment admin - uploading jobs to the ATS, CV screening
- Administering global payroll on Gusto, Moorepay and other online platforms as required and liaise with payroll providers to ensure smooth payroll process is in place.
- Manage employee benefits and communicate these to employees and pension providers to ensure correct and compliant reporting.
- Administering the business registrations in the US states where we have employees in.
- Own the relationship with Deel for our LATAM employees.
- Liaise with 3rd party providers in UK and US for support as required.
- Support on ad-hoc projects when needed.
Our Ideal Candidate
You will have experience of working within a HR role, ideally focused on operations and compliance. It is also important that you have payroll experience in the UK and USA, if you have managed payroll in additional countries that would be an advantage.
Strong attention to attention to detail including accurate data skills is important as you will working with payroll and employee data.
You will be an excellent communicator and be competent in teamwork, collaborating and building relationships with colleagues at all levels.
You will have the ability to reason and respond adeptly and inclusively with all interpersonal interactions and be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and working in a stand alone role .
What we offer
Competitive salary
Medical and Dental cover with Bupa
Company Pension
Remote working culture
We strongly encourage our employees to plan two consecutive weeks away every year. That’s in addition to other time off. You’ll come back more focused, with fresh perspective and new ideas.
