Senior Payroll Specialist, Colombia

1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
HR and Recruiting
Sezzle

Sezzle

Sezzle is a payments company revolutionizing the buy now, pay later experience with interest-free installment plans, empowering consumers and merchants alike.

Diversified Financial Services
251-1K
Founded 2016

Description

  • Own the end-to-end monthly Colombian payroll cycle with the BPO provider, including data submission, validation, reconciliation, approval, payment release, and post-cycle review.
  • Serve as the Sezzle-side single point of accountability for payroll accuracy and catch provider errors before payments are released.
  • Manage payroll data flows between UKG, the BPO, and Finance for hires, terminations, compensation changes, bonuses, leaves, vacation accruals, and deductions.
  • Ensure ongoing compliance with Colombian statutory payroll and social security requirements, including PILA, DIAN reporting, and related obligations.
  • Own year-end and mid-year statutory payroll cycles, including income and withholding certificates, statutory bonuses, vacation true-ups, and year-end reconciliation.
  • Coordinate treasury funding, prepare journal entries and accruals, and support monthly close with Finance.
  • Act as the first point of escalation for Colombian employee payroll inquiries and drive resolutions and process improvements.
  • Partner with Legal and Compliance to translate Colombian labor law changes into payroll process updates without missing payroll cycles.
  • Build audit-ready SOPs, payroll calendars, control matrices, and exception logs from day one.
  • Support the payroll transition to Sezzle Colombia SAS, including roster build-out in UKG, BPO onboarding, parallel-run validation, and first-cycle dress rehearsal.
  • Manage USD-denominated contractor payment mechanics outside the Sezzle Colombia SAS payroll perimeter.
  • Support and oversee UGPP audits.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on Colombian payroll experience, ideally in technology, fintech, marketplace, or SaaS environments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or a related field.
  • Deep current knowledge of Colombian labor law and payroll statutory requirements, including PILA submission experience, DIAN reporting, cesantías, prima, parafiscales, and social security.
  • Experience acting as the client-side coordinator for an outsourced or BPO payroll provider.
  • Experience running payroll for small-to-mid Colombian teams of 50–250 employees for a global parent company.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets for reconciliation, variance analysis, and error detection.
  • Strong working English for daily communication with US-based People Ops, Finance, and Legal stakeholders.
  • HRIS experience with UKG, Workday, ADP, or similar systems and comfort with HRIS-to-payroll data flows.
  • A documented track record of catching payroll errors before release and stopping payment when needed.
  • High discretion when handling sensitive compensation, termination, and personal data.
  • Demonstrated experience using Claude or equivalent large language model tools to improve productivity, research, and communication.
  • Preferred: Experience leading a payroll transition, BPO implementation, entity standup, EOR exit, or HRIS migration.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Payoneer or other USD-denominated contractor payment rails.
  • Preferred: Experience managing both empleado dependiente and contratista independiente populations.
  • Preferred: Background in a publicly listed or pre-IPO fintech with SOX-adjacent controls and external-audit readiness.
  • Preferred: Native Spanish and fluent business English.

Benefits

  • Remote full-time role.
  • Opportunity to build the Colombian payroll function from the ground up for a newly established entity.
  • Career growth in a rapidly growing team and dynamic environment.
  • Work with cross-functional partners across Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, Finance, Legal, and Colombian leadership.

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