Payroll Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $25 - $35 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🧾 Payroll

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Puzzle 🧩🚀

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11 - 50 employees

💸 Finance

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

Finance • SaaS • Fintech

Puzzle 🧩🚀 is a modern accounting platform designed for the AI era, providing smart accounting solutions for startups, founders, and accounting firms. It offers real-time financial insights, automatic bookkeeping, and tax compliance tools, all integrated with popular financial technologies like Stripe and Brex. Puzzle automates repetitive accounting tasks, enabling users to focus on financial planning and strategic decision-making. By supporting day-one tax compliance and offering an ecosystem of partner services, Puzzle enhances the financial management experience and supports business growth. It is particularly advantageous for startups seeking to streamline financial operations and reduce reliance on traditional software like QuickBooks.

📋 Description

• Process end-to-end payrolls for multiple clients using the vendor-specific platform • Audit payroll data for accuracy, including earnings, deductions, and accruals • Perform payroll balancing to ensure precise and error-free processing • Manage new hires, terminations, compensation updates, and earnings/deduction changes in vendor systems • Process off-cycle payrolls, bonuses, commissions, and retroactive adjustments • Support payroll imports, integrations, and timekeeping data reviews • Collect, validate, and process payroll inputs with clients • Support new client onboarding by documenting payroll workflows, calendars, and operational processes • Analyze procedures and recommend process improvements for efficiency, accuracy, and scalability • Develop and maintain client-specific payroll SOPs and onboarding documentation • Transition payroll operations into standardized workflows aligned with PuzzleHR service practices • Research and resolve payroll discrepancies and client inquiries • Participate in payroll projects, system optimizations, and onboarding activities • Collaborate cross-functionally to support payroll processing, data accuracy, and timely resolution of payroll-related items • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on payroll processing experience in the vendor-specific system • Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including auditing, manipulating, and reconciling large payroll data sets • Experience using Excel for payroll balancing, variance analysis, retro calculations, and data validation • Strong working knowledge of VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIF(S), COUNTIF(S), IF statements, and pivot tables • Ability to import/export payroll files and review data feeds using Excel • Experience managing client-facing payroll communications • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills • Ability to manage multiple payrolls in a deadline-driven environment • Proven problem-solving skills with complex payroll scenarios • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment • Ability to analyze payroll workflows and identify operational improvement and process standardization opportunities • Strong documentation and organizational skills; ability to develop client-specific payroll procedures and SOPs • Two to four years of direct vendor-specific payroll experience required • Working knowledge of payroll principles, practices, and procedures • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or related field — or equivalent experience preferred • Five or more years of payroll processing experience preferred • Benefits and earnings/deduction configuration experience preferred • Client payroll onboarding or implementation experience preferred • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer • Must be able to move up to 15 pounds at times • Must be able to participate in video conferences/meetings

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role