Senior HR/People Ops Specialist – Payroll, Benefits & Compliance
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING
Mimica's mission is to empower enterprises, teams, and individuals to reclaim their most precious resource — time and work more efficiently, with greater purpose and impact.
Our AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps. Mimica’s process intelligence highlights inefficiencies, prioritizes improvements based on ROI, recommends the optimal technology for automation (RPA, intelligent document processing, GenAI), and provides a blueprint for building new automations and transforming work.
YOUR MISSION
We’re transitioning ~200 employees in Costa Rica from EOR to a fully owned local entity. This is a high-impact operational shift. If payroll, benefits, or compliance obligations are wrong or missed, employees will feel it immediately. Your role will be to own the execution and integrity of this system — keeping it running cleanly, compliantly, and at scale.
You’ll go from cleaning and validating payroll inputs to owning statutory compliance, to shaping how we operate locally as we scale, with the potential to grow into leading all People Operations & HR in the region.
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 discrepancies and catching errors before employees do
- Ensure correct handling of social security contributions, income tax withholdings, and settlements, including cesantías and liquidaciones
- Own enrolment, changes, and issue resolution for private healthcare and statutory benefits
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