Job Information
Amazon Colombia Payroll Analyst, South Cone Payroll Team in Heredia, Costa Rica
Description
Do you love payroll? Join our team and perform a different payroll process with us!
We are looking for a payroll analyst who wants to own a complex role, to take the payroll experience to another level and help build our rapidly growing company. We are encouraged and driven to improve processes and look for better solutions every day.
Amazon seeks a Payroll Analyst to apply great customer service skills in a fast paced environment to insure accurate timely results for over 4,500 employees in South Cone (ARG, COL, PER). Payroll is processed on a monthly basis and will perform a variety of technical tasks relative to assigned areas of responsibility; prepare a variety of statistical/financial reports; compile data and conduct research, and provide support to the Senior Manager as appropriate. Emphasis will be on detail, problem solving, and auditing.
Key job responsibilities
Sounds great? What will you be working on?
· Own the payroll processing cycle for a Colombian Legal Entity.
· Payroll Balances and controls at input and output (Source to Gross, Gross to Net)
· Payroll Accounting support
· Complex payroll queries & escalations
· Vendor operations management
· Point of contact for stakeholders (Benefits, Compensation, Stock Options, HR Services, Local HR, Recruitment, Accounting, Treasury and others)
· Projects: process improvement (Six Sigma), country expansions, new payroll setup
· Excellent customer service, detailed, strong problem solving and proactive
Can you handle more?
· You can improve our processes in cooperation with the Operational Excellence team!
· You can develop your career by joining Payroll Academy and many other available trainings!
· You can use your ideas to run your own projects!
A day in the life
As a Payroll Analyst, on a daily basis you will be handling:
Employees Requests and Inquiries regarding compensation, time & attendance and ad-hoc payments.
Processing employees salary, vacations, overtime, absences, bonuses and Ad-Hoc Payments.
Creation of reports regarding employees salary, vacations, overtime, absences, bonuses and Ad-Hoc Payments.
Vendor Relations to ensure the payroll data security and integrity, accuracy and effectiveness.
About the team
LATAM South Countries Payroll Ops is a team full of energy, hard workers and professional employees. You will be joining a great team in terms of respect, kindness, willing to help co-workers!
Basic Qualifications
4+ years of finance experience
2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
Experience using data to influence business decisions
Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
Knowledge of financial controls and procedures
Preferred Qualifications
2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
Experience in handling internal & external audits