Do you love payroll? Come do payroll differently with us!
We are looking for a payroll specialist who wants to do a complex role, to take the payroll experience to another level and help build our rapidly growing company. We are encouraged and driven to improve processes and look for better solutions every day.
Amazon seeks a Payroll Specialist to apply great customer service skills in a fast paced environment to insure accurate timely results for our employees. Payroll is processed on a semi-monthly basis and will perform a variety of technical tasks relative to assigned areas of responsibility; prepare a variety of statistical/financial reports, compile data and conduct research. Emphasis will be on detail, problem solving, and data analysis.
Sounds great? What will you be working on?
The Payroll Specialist owns complex processes and act as SME to perform specific tasks within the payroll process, such as gathering and validating data from HR, Employee Services, Compensation & Benefits, Stock and Global Mobility. They review payroll reports, conduct timely and accurate validations, along with standard controls to meet process targets. Perform specific assigned tasks with efficiency to meet SLAs, highest quality standards and flexibility to support other team processes. Stay connected with team priorities and exhibit ownership to identify proactively opportunities to support team tasks and goals. They are responsible for answering queries filed through ticketing system, exhibiting excellent customer service, detailed, strong problem solving to remove operational roadblocks. Conduct Dive Deeps and analysis in regards to operational issues or metrics not on target to understand root causes to propose and implement corrective actions. Same day escalation of complex issues with recommendations and follow through completion. These roles proactively identify and drive improvement opportunities and propose or support long-term enhancement initiatives.
Can you handle more?
- You can improve our processes in cooperation with the Operational Excellence team!
- You can develop your career by joining Payroll Academy and many other available trainings!
- You can use your ideas to run your own projects!
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance or related field
- 2+ years of experience in payroll processing for Costa Rica or any other LATAM country
- Fluent English
- Advanced Excel (pivot tables, vlookup and other formulas)
- Transnational accounting knowledge/experience
- Good analytical skills with high level of accuracy and attention to details
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs)- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Deep knowledge of personal income tax legislation and labor law
- Familiar with payroll software (SAP, Peoplesoft, Sharepoint, Workday and T&A systems)
- Experience with process transitions - Sense of innovation
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