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Payroll Administrator

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Job ID 305460 Date posted 03/19/2025 Location : Costa Rica Category  HUMAN RESOURCES Job Status  Salaried Full Time
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Job Purpose and Impact

The Payroll Administrator supports payroll processing tasks to ensure efficient service center operations. Working independently under limited supervision for routine and miscellaneous administrative tasks, this job contributes to the execution of payroll processes to support the team in the smooth delivery of a high-quality payroll process, including reconciliation of payroll records, compliance with legislation, and data entry, verification, and administration.

Key Accountabilities

  • Data Collection and Entry – Enters and reviews data, including personal information and fixed and variable payroll data, to provide to the payroll provider in the required standard format.
  • Payroll Recordkeeping – Verifies and ensures data accuracy for essential payroll variables such as employee wages, bank accounts, and addresses for new hires and terminations.
  • Data Quality Assurance – Supports the operations team to ensure a reliable flow of data in the payroll process, ensuring payroll data is verified and variable payroll elements are aligned with organizational policies.
  • Payroll Administration – Performs a variety of routine payroll process tasks such as preparing and distributing paychecks or direct deposits, generating payroll reports, ensuring reconciliation of payroll records, and responding to employee inquiries regarding their pay. Also provide knowledge and application of continuous improvement to the payroll proces
  • Payroll Compliance: Supports research into payroll-related laws and regulations, such as tax withholding requirements, wage and hour laws, and payroll tax returns to help monitor and manage compliance of the organization’s payroll process.
  • Handle complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM
  • Advanced student or bachelor’s degree in a related field (HR, Business administration, etc)
  • 1 – 2 Years of related work experience
  • Intermediate - Advanced Excel knowledge
  • Advanced English level
  • Experience in Payroll processes
  • ERP usage (SAP - Streamline)
DESIRABLE
  • Previous work experience with LATAM payroll process

  • Power BI knowledge

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