Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Trackonomy is hiring a Global Payroll Analyst to independently review, reconcile, and report on payroll operations across multiple countries, entities, and providers. The role supports HR and Finance by investigating discrepancies, improving payroll controls, and explaining payroll costs and variances.
Responsibilities
- Maintain consolidated global payroll reporting that enables HR and Finance to understand total payroll costs, significant month-over-month movement, and the business drivers behind those changes
- Identify and investigate payroll discrepancies, including incorrect or duplicate payments, payments after termination, compensation discrepancies, employer tax or contribution issues, workers' compensation classifications, and payroll provider or PEO/EOR billing discrepancies
- Establish a process for documenting exceptions, quantifying their financial impact, coordinating corrections or recoveries, and identifying recurring issues that require stronger controls
- Improve the consistency and reliability of global payroll reporting across multiple systems, providers, countries, and entities
- Partner with HR, Finance, local teams, and external payroll providers to investigate and resolve discrepancies
- Provide clear, timely explanations of payroll variances and employment-related costs to support financial reporting and decision-making
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in payroll, payroll accounting, payroll audit, payroll reconciliation, or a closely related field
- Strong experience reviewing payroll registers, reconciling payroll activity, and identifying discrepancies
- Solid understanding of gross-to-net payroll, employer taxes and contributions, deductions, bonuses, commissions, and other payroll-related employer costs
- Advanced Excel and/or Google Sheets skills, including pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, and variance analysis
- Demonstrated ability to analyze payroll data, recognize unusual activity, investigate discrepancies, and follow issues through resolution
- Ability to reconcile payroll changes to hires, terminations, compensation changes, bonuses, commissions, and other employee activity
- Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to organize and consolidate data received from multiple systems, providers, and formats
- Experience reviewing payroll across multiple countries, legal entities, or payroll providers
- Experience with global payroll reporting and reconciliation
- Experience working with Professional Employer Organization (PEO) and/or Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements
- Experience reviewing payroll provider invoices, employer taxes, statutory contributions, and other employment-related costs
- Familiarity with payroll accounting, accruals, and month-end close processes
- Experience reviewing bonuses, commissions, or other variable compensation
- Experience identifying payroll overpayments, duplicate payments, provider billing discrepancies, tax or contribution errors, or other payroll-related exceptions
- Experience developing or improving payroll controls, reconciliation processes, or reporting
- Experience working in a high-growth, international, or decentralized organization
Benefits
- Fully remote within the United States, with substantial flexibility in when the work is performed; must meet established monthly payroll and Finance reporting deadlines and occasionally coordinate with colleagues in different time zones.
- Opportunities to take on diverse responsibilities, learn directly from experienced leaders, and expand your role as your impact grows.
- Team members are encouraged to explore new challenges, collaborate across functions, and continuously develop new skills.
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