✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

🌏 Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries

👩‍💻Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs

🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female

🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class

🦄 Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion!

💚 B Corp status achieved in 2023

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!

👩‍💻 The Role

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within +3 / -3 UTC.

Join our Payroll & Finance Transformation team to help automate and scale multi-country payroll processes from end-to-end. You’ll get hands-on with real payroll data, document complex logic, and partner with Finance, Payroll, Product and Engineering to drive full automation.

You’ll be joining as an Analyst playing a highly impactful role in our Payroll & Finance Transformation team. You will work on complex payroll systems across multiple countries. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be exposed to the logic, structure, and behind-the-scenes processes that ensure accurate, compliant payroll execution and payments.

You will be maintaining payroll logic, working cross-functionally, and documenting country-specific rules and exceptions. You’ll help track down missing data, identify inconsistencies, and gradually take ownership of workflow components as you grow with us. Along the way, you’ll learn how payroll connects with finance, tax, product, and engineering - and how operational decisions impact the broader business.

You’ll also support payroll processing, ensuring data is complete and validated each cycle. As part of our shift towards full automation, you will help translate manual processes and payroll logic into structured documentation and flows that can be automated and scaled.

This is a great opportunity for someone highly analytical, curious, and who wants to get deep into workflow and data automation. You’ll be expected to ask questions, take initiative, and build confidence working with complex information. If you enjoy spotting patterns, fixing broken logic, and want to learn how to design systems that scale - this role will give you a strong foundation.

Responsibilities

• Align payroll calculations with accounting, tax, and compliance requirements

• Process and validate structured input data (salary, bonuses, leave) to ensure accurate payroll runs

• Continually inspect and analyse payroll data, flagging and escalating any inconsistencies.

• Define and document operational requirements for technical implementation

• Map product features to payroll workflows, ensuring seamless integration

• Translate manual payroll logic into structured rules that can be automated

• Perform user testing of new features to ensure operational edge cases are covered

• Support the documentation and improvement of payroll workflows and edge cases

• Identify repetitive tasks that could be standardised or automated

• Contribute to the creation of scalable logic and templates for multi-country payroll

• Utilize BI and automation tools (Looker, SQL, n8n, Zapier) to streamline processes

• Communicate clearly and professionally with internal stakeholders (Finance, Product, Engineering, Ops)

• Help track open items, missing data, or blockers across cross-functional teams

• Take ownership of smaller deliverables and follow up with the right people to resolve issues

• Be proactive, organised, and eager to contribute to a high-performing, globally distributed team

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in finance-related roles with a focus on automating manual data activities

• Experience working in fast fast-paced, innovative environment

• Educational background in Finance, Accounting, Business or Data (degree required)

• Foundational understanding of financial principles, especially as they relate to payroll, tax, or cost accounting

• Robust understanding of payroll or financial concepts (e.g. gross vs. net, statutory deductions, benefits)

• Understanding of how payroll interacts with accounting, tax, and compliance rules

• Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail

• Eagerness to learn about payroll and system design

• Experience with SQL, Looker, or other BI tools

• Hands-on with data transformation tools, n8n, Zapier or similar low-code automation platforms

• Familiarity with payroll system

• Process mapping experience

• Excellent communication and documentation skills in English

• Strong proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets; familiarity with structured data is a plus

• Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks, and follow through on deadlines

You'll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)

• Fluent English language skills

🦪 How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌 We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍

Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.

We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.

💌 How YOU work

Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.

• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).

• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.

• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.

• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).

• WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!

✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone

At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.