Leave Payroll Analyst I

Sparrow

Leave Payroll Analyst providing internal support on payroll calculations to enhance customer experience. Collaborate with various teams to develop personalized payroll plans for clients.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $24 - $29 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

payroll calculationspayroll reconciliationsExcel functionsExcel formulasExcel cell formattingpayroll planspayroll schedulespayroll workflowspayroll system integrationsprocess improvements

Soft Skills

organization skillsdetail-orientedverbal communicationwritten communicationempathetic communicationtrustworthinessadaptabilitylearner's mindsetself-directedcollaboration