Payroll Specialist

About the Role

This Payroll Specialist role operates within an international education and study/work-abroad platform connecting students with institutions and advising on program selection and enrollment. The position focuses on payroll controls, ensuring accuracy and compliance in a specialized execution context. Decisions and processes must reflect the unique demands of this environment, keeping confirmed facts, pending dependencies, and exceptions visibly separate.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile payroll with timekeeping review, ensuring each checkpoint leaves a visible source, owner, status, and next action within the international education platform.
• Coordinate work and study travel job documentation with status tracking, maintaining traceability and accountability for payroll-focused tasks.
• Review payroll reconciliation with deadline management, adhering to a payroll-focused, specialized-execution work profile.
• Document payroll processes and reporting, ensuring clarity and compliance in the context of international education and study/work-abroad programs.
• Maintain quality control and workflow management, surfacing repeated errors before they result in downstream rework.

Decision Pattern & Quality Standards

Payroll controls must remain usable under the specific demands of the international education platform. Completed work must be traceable, unresolved items must have clear owners, and errors must be identified early to prevent rework.

Skills & Capabilities

• Confidently use work and study travel jobs workflow context and payroll processing tools within the international education platform.
• Apply data accuracy while maintaining evidence and meeting deadlines in a payroll-focused workflow.
• Document process compliance and escalate issues with clear reasoning, ensuring decisions are transparent.
• Exercise judgment in follow-up, particularly when payroll tasks depend on external confirmations rather than assumptions.
• Combine work and study travel job documentation, quality control, and record management to ensure payroll tasks are secure, traceable, and ready for the next authorized teammate.

Position Details

Full-time, associate-level role. 100% remote within the United States.

Pay

Base salary: $43,000–$64,000 per year.