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Posted Mar 30Senior HR/People Ops Specialist – Payroll, Benefits & Compliance
at Mimica
Costa RicaRemote
Requirements
- Our AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps.
- benefits - Manage leave processes, including statutory and company leave, ensuring alignment across policy, systems, and payroll outputs - Be the go-to person for employee queries on employment terms, payslips, taxes, and benefits, resolving issues with clarity and confidence - Stay ahead of regulatory changes and implement them proactively, ensuring our practices are compliant with CCSS, MTSS, DGT, and INS - Support audits, filings, and statutory reporting for Costa Rica - Maintain clean, structured
- benefits and leave management, including how they impact payroll and compliance - Familiarity with complex, multi-entity environments across North, South America, and EMEA -
- Experience working through audits and actively supporting statutory reporting - Execution depth.
- You are comfortable doing detailed, repetitive work such as data input, audits, and reconciliation, and you consistently catch issues others miss - Proven ability to operate without full structure, interpreting
- benefits may vary depending on location and role ⚠️ Mimica will only contact candidates from an @mimica.ai email address.
Benefits
- If payroll, benefits, or compliance obligations are wrong or missed, employees will feel it immediately.
- WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON - Own pre-hire compliance requirements, including right to work checks, documentation, and contract readiness, ensuring employees are correctly set up before day 1 - Handle new joiner, leaver, and employment change transactions – generating contracts, amendments, employment verifications, salary certificates, and formal notices - Prepare, validate, and submit payroll inputs, including salary, incentives, deductions, and adjustments - Audit outputs from payroll providers, reconciling
- requirements and building practical, fit-for-purpose processes as you go WHAT WE OFFER 💰 Generous compensation + stock options - aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills. 🏢 Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix. 💻 Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget 📍 Flexible schedules and location ☀️ Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays 🍼 Enhanced parental leave 🧘♀️ Health & retirement
- benefits 📖 Annual learning & development budget 🌴 Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials 🌍 Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work Note: Some