Payroll Specialist

Overview

This Payroll Specialist role supports accurate, traceable financial processing, reconciliation, and exception handling. Work includes maintaining audit-ready documentation, reviewing financial inputs against supporting records, and ensuring confidential account information is protected.

The position operates in a workflow that requires clear documentation of what source was used, what changed, what remains open, and who owns the next action.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile payroll-focused discrepancies before reporting or processing, ensuring issues and actions remain traceable through the workflow.
• Track unresolved financial exceptions and ensure each exception has an accountable owner.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation to support verification and follow-up without rebuilding history.
• Review financial inputs against supporting records (including invoice review decisions) and document reasoning clearly for next-step teammates.
• Protect confidential account information.
• Apply variance analysis and financial reporting practices to support accurate records, reconciliation, and exception resolution.

Requirements

• Ability to perform payroll-focused, specialized execution work with strong record maintenance and documentation discipline.
• Experience with financial record review, reconciliation, and exception handling.
• Competence with invoice review, payment tracking, spreadsheet analysis, and account review.
• Strong judgment regarding data accuracy, including appropriate escalation rather than assumption.
• Commitment to confidentiality and audit support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payroll-focused workflow documentation and approval tracking.
• Familiarity with variance analysis, financial reporting, and audit support processes.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure evidence, owners, and deadlines remain clear throughout the workflow.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

• Full-time, Associate level
• 100% remote within the United States