Lifecycle Specialist, Time & Attendance – EMEA

Remote from
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Germany, Sweden +3 more, Finland, Norway, Denmark
Salary, yearly, USD
29,750 - 75,400
Employment type
Full Time,
Job posted
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21 Jun 2026
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About Remote

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AI Summary

Remote is seeking a Lifecycle Specialist for Time & Attendance in the EMEA region to manage employee lifecycle events with a focus on legal compliance and exceptional employee experience. The role involves serving as an expert on Time & Attendance matters, advising on employment laws, and handling cases like family leave, sick leave, and time tracking. The ideal candidate has strong HR support experience, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in English. This is a fully remote, individual contributor position reporting to the Time & Attendance Manager.

Job Complexity

Easy Hard
AI Insight The role requires expertise in multiple jurisdictions and complex legal interpretations, but it is an individual contributor role with established processes, making it moderately difficult.

Salary Analysis

Median
USD52,575
US Market
USD45,000 – USD85,000
AI Insight The offered salary range of $29,750 to $75,400 is below the typical US market range for similar roles, which is $45,000 to $85,000. The median salary of $52,575 is competitive for a junior to mid-level specialist, but may be lower than market average for experienced professionals.

Key Skills

Time & Attendance Employee Lifecycle HR Compliance Employment Law Leave Management Process Optimization Remote Work Cross-functional Collaboration Zendesk Slack

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing to express my strong interest in the Lifecycle Specialist, Time & Attendance - EMEA position at Remote. With extensive experience in managing employee lifecycle events and a deep understanding of multi-jurisdictional employment laws, I am confident in my ability to contribute to your team. My background includes handling complex leave cases, advising on legal compliance, and optimizing processes for efficiency. I am particularly drawn to Remote's innovative culture and commitment to automation and AI. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss how my skills align with your needs.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

Can you describe your experience managing employee lifecycle events across multiple jurisdictions?
I have managed employee lifecycle events such as onboarding, leave management, and offboarding for employees in the US, UK, and Germany, ensuring compliance with local labor laws and company policies.
How do you handle complex leave cases involving long-term sick leave and benefits impacts?
I coordinate with stakeholders to verify eligibility, manage documentation, and communicate with employees to ensure they understand their benefits and pay impacts, while maintaining confidentiality.
Describe a time you used automation to improve a Time & Attendance process.
I implemented an automated time tracking system that integrated with payroll, reducing manual entry errors by 30% and saving 10 hours per week.
How do you stay updated on employment law changes in different countries?
I subscribe to legal updates, attend webinars, and collaborate with legal teams to ensure compliance. I also use tools like Notion to track changes.
Can you give an example of a difficult conversation you facilitated and how you resolved it?
I mediated a conflict between an employee and manager regarding working hours. By listening to both sides and referencing company policy, we reached a compromise that satisfied both parties.

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

The Time & Attendance Specialist will play an essential role in ensuring the accurate and efficient management of Time & Attendance activities for Remote’s external employees and clients. This individual contributor position places a strong emphasis on legal compliance and delivering an exceptional employee experience while maintaining efficient processes.

When joining the Time & Attendance team you will be reporting to the Time & Attendance Manager.

What you bring

  • Demonstrate proven experience with a strong background in managing employee lifecycle events with care, sensitivity and legal compliance; and providing comprehensive HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations, spanning various jurisdictions.
  • Display excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills, with the ability to confidently lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome, often where parties have conflicting interests, maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality.
  • Possess advanced proficiency in written and spoken English at a business level, with additional languages considered a plus.
  • Show an an aptitude and enthusiasm for innovating and optimizing processes, consistently identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and promoting best practices.
  • Demonstrate efficiency in operations, with an awareness of the importance of thorough documentation and data integrity.
  • Be Tech-savvy, with the ability to successfully collaborate asynchronously on various tools, and adapt to new and evolving systems.
  • Capable of working independently and cohesively in an international team in a fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment with multiple priorities. Willingness to work flexible hours as needed.
  • Familiar with communication, documentation, and project management tools such as Notion, Slack, Zendesk and G-suite.
  • Show enthusiasm for AI with a foundational understanding of its practical applications in operations and automation.
  • Experience managing long-term sick leave or extended absence cases end-to-end, including complex eligibility, documentation, pay and benefits impacts, and stakeholder coordination preferred.

Key Responsibilities 

Employee Relations Management

  • Serve as an expert on Time & Attendance matters, and assist Senior Specialists and Experts on complex projects, including implementing and advising clients and employees on employment law changes from Collective Bargaining Agreement updates.
  • Be case manager for all employee lifecycle leave and working hours matters with accuracy and attention to detail for both internal and external employees of Remote through out the employee lifecycle including but not limited to Family Leave, Sick Leave, Time Tracking, Public Holidays, Working Time.
  • Advise on employment legislation and provide guidance on both basic and complex legal interpretations as outlined in employment agreements and labor law as a trusted consultant to clients and employees.

Team and Operational Excellence

  • Collaborate with and coordinate various internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance in employee lifecycle activities, including but not limited to payroll, legal counsel and government bodies.
  • Assist Senior Specialists to manage critical initiatives that impact numerous employees across multiple countries and support HR and financial audits to ensure compliance with local employment regulations.
  • Develop and update global internal documentation pertaining to Time & Attendance, based on legislative changes, referenced by all internal teams. Proactively address internal and external inquiries on all employment matters in collaboration with Lifecycle’s internal stakeholders.
  • Actively identify opportunities for and contribute to process improvements, automation, product development and overall customer and employee experience through the employee lifecycle process.
  • Safely manage and maintain employee data and confidential information, adhering to established protocols, and ensuring utmost professionalism and discretion in handling and accessing such information
  • Promote and exemplify Remote’s values both internally and externally, actively contributing to the success of the Lifecycle team’s goals.

Practicals

  • You’ll report to: Manager Lifecycle: Time & Attendance
  • Team: Lifecycle, Time & Attendance
  • Location: TBD

Application process

  1. Interview with Recruiter
  2. Interview with Hiring Manager (Manager Lifecycle: Time & Attendance)
  3. Interview with Senior Manager (Senior Manager Lifecycle: Time & Attendance)
  4. Interview with Director (Director of Lifecycle Operations)
  5. Bar Raiser Interview
  6. Prior employment verification check 

#LI-DNP

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide – here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is$29,750—$75,400 USD

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • learning budget
  • home office budget & IT equipment
  • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

  1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
  3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

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