Payroll Specialist

Overview

This Payroll Specialist role supports travel-industry talent and business operations for a large tourism distribution organization across recruiting, administration, service, finance, and commercial teams. The position focuses on keeping accurate financial records, reconciliation, exception handling, and audit-ready documentation dependable and easy to verify. Work emphasizes document review, payment tracking, and bookkeeping, with follow-up discipline, traceable customer history, and high-quality handoffs to the next authorized teammate.

Responsibilities

• Track unresolved financial exceptions for the payroll workflow and keep follow-up discipline explicit using payroll, financial records, and approval tracking.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation for the payroll workflow using deadline management, process compliance, and audit support.
• Protect confidential financial information using billing, approval tracking, and data accuracy to support clean handoffs.
• Review financial inputs against supporting records using variance analysis, audit support, and document review.
• Reconcile discrepancies before reporting or processing using invoice review, data accuracy, and record maintenance.

Success Standard

Strong performance means accurate financial records, reconciliation, exception handling, and audit-ready documentation remain trustworthy within the payroll workflow. Accounts payable, process compliance, and audit support should reinforce follow-up discipline, customer history, and handoff quality. Unresolved items must retain an owner and be verifiable by another authorized teammate without reconstructing the work’s history.

Required Capabilities

• Use exception resolution, record maintenance, and financial reporting confidently to support follow-up discipline.
• Apply variance analysis with transaction review and document review so follow-up discipline and handoff quality remain visible.
• Document approval tracking decisions alongside data accuracy and process compliance so customer history stays traceable.
• Use sound judgment around accounts receivable, billing, and audit support, escalating when the workflow requires it rather than using assumptions.

Qualifications

• Associate level
• Full-time
• Desired skills and experience include: financial records, payment tracking, variance analysis, process compliance, financial reporting, invoice review, approval tracking, bookkeeping, transaction review, audit support, accounts receivable, status tracking, data accuracy, payroll, exception resolution, document review, deadline management, accounts payable, record maintenance, billing

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $43,000-$68,000 per year

Location

• 100% remote within the United States