Leave Payroll Analyst - SME Level Excel Exp is Required - Remote
Finance & AccountingPayroll Analyst
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Key Responsibilities
Work with the leave specialists by preparing customized and personalized payroll plans and payroll reconciliations for our customers’ payroll teams. Act responsively, accurately,
Requirements Summary
2+ years of experience in: data-focused operations, payroll, accounting, or bookkeeping. Advanced Excel experience to include using functions, formulas, and cell formatting.
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Finance & AccountingPayroll Analyst
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This role is remote in the US, but does not hire from AK, HI or CA.
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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.
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This role is remote in the US, but does not hire from AK, HI or CA.
Resumes must show:
2+ years of experience in: data-focused operations, payroll, accounting, or bookkeeping.
Advanced Excel experience to include using functions, formulas, and cell formatting.
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.
#LI-Remote
Responsibilities
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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 a full time, non-exempt hourly position. Compensation ranges from $23.53 to $29.09 per hour and is based on your legal state of residence.
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 a full time, non-exempt hourly position. Compensation ranges from $23.53 to $29.09 per hour and is based on your legal state of residence.
Please note: to ensure that candidates select the most relevant jobs for their skills, we have set up a limit to the number of times candidates can apply within a given time frame. The following limit applies to all roles at Sparrow:
Candidates may not apply more than 2 times in any six month period.
Additionally, we recognize that people grow over time, but have seen that when a candidates re-applies too soon after exiting our process, the outcome is similar. As a result, the following limit applies to all roles at Sparrow:
Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 180 days if not presented with an offer.
Candidates may not apply more than 2 times in any six month period.
Additionally, we recognize that people grow over time, but have seen that when a candidates re-applies too soon after exiting our process, the outcome is similar. As a result, the following limit applies to all roles at Sparrow:
Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 180 days if not presented with an offer.
Location & Eligibility
Where is the job
N/a, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 16, 2026
- First seen
- September 26, 2026
- Last seen
- September 29, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 2
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 25%
- Scored at
- September 29, 2026
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