Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Military Spouse Jobs is collaborating with Sparrow, a high-tech employee leave management solution. The Leave Payroll Analyst will prepare employee leave and payroll calculations, support leave specialists, and help improve the payroll product and processes.
Responsibilities
• Provide internal support for our leave specialists with leave and payroll calculations:
• Work with the leave specialists by preparing customized and personalized payroll plans and payroll reconciliations for our customers’ payroll teams
• Act responsively, accurately, and with attention to customers’ payroll deadlines
• Ensure correct personalized payroll plans are calculated on the Sparrow dashboard
• Interface and collaborate comfortably with a variety of key parties including: leave specialists, sales and marketing, and engineering teams through various channels (instant message, email, video chat)
• Effectively collaborate with our customers’ payroll teams to ensure they love Sparrow:
• Work with onboarding specialists to understand our customers’ payroll needs
• Assist with the setup of customized personalized payroll plans, payroll schedules, and payroll workflows
• Share best practices for leave payroll when needed
• In collaboration with the Sparrow team, build a better product:
• Collect and share product feedback
• Identify improvements in payroll calculations software and services
• Provide input on payroll system integrations
• Implement process improvements to resolve inefficiencies and address customer pain point
Skills
• Expert level Excel experience to include using formulas and completing/understanding calculations
• 2 years in a data focused role, such as: payroll, accounting or bookkeeping
• 2+ years of experience in either data-focused operations, payroll, accounting, or bookkeeping
• Excellent spreadsheet skills. Adept at using Excel functions, formulas, and cell formatting
• Superior organization skills and detail-oriented. You're able to manage a multitude of tasks with accuracy and attention to deadlines
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Clear, empathetic communicator able to distill complex information to ensure understanding. Is able to work with different communication styles
• Trustworthy. You act with discretion and can be trusted to handle confidential information appropriately
• Learner's mindset. Highly self-directed, adaptable, and open to feedback and implementation in a fast paced, always changing environment
• Someone looking for something new. This is not a traditional payroll role so you will not be doing full-cycle payroll. Instead you will create payroll plans for our customers
• Able to become a subject matter expert. Your coworkers and Sparrow customers will look to you as a go-to resource for all things payroll
Company Overview
• Military Spouse Jobs provides employment referral and job placement solutions to military spouses. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://militaryspousejobs.org.