Leave Payroll Analyst

About the role

As a Leave Payroll Analyst on Sparrow's Customer Experience team you will be responsible for preparing employee leave and payroll calculations for our customers and will have a hand in helping us build a better product.

Here’s what you’ll do

• 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 points.

About you

• 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.

Compensation

• This is an full time non-exempt hourly position. Compensation ranges from $23.11 to $28.56 per hour and is based on your legal state of residence.