At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 6,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Senior Payroll Specialist
Why We Have This Role
Qualtrics is looking for a self-motivated individual to join our Payroll team. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our processes and better support the employees at Qualtrics. This team has the unique opportunity to work cross-functionally across the company, as well as with senior leadership.
How You’ll Find Success
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to communicate well with stakeholders across many levels and disciplines, both verbally and written
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information
How You’ll Grow
- Your direct interactions with Qualtrics employees will allow you to hone your ability to provide an incredibly important foundational employee experience.
- Payroll sits at the intersection of multiple departments, including Legal (employment law), Compensation, People Data, Benefits, Accounting, Finance, and Recruiting, allowing you to gain experience and expertise in all of these areas, and understand how things get done across multiple departments.
- Payroll receives data from multiple sources, processes it through many complex calculations, and then shares this data with multiple sources. You will have opportunities to learn how systems and integrations are configured to work together to ensure accurate and timely data.
Things You’ll Do
- Assist and support payrolls in the Americas. Currently the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia.
- Own projects and processes from end to end, communicating impacts to proper stakeholders.
- Conduct audits of payroll, benefits, long-term incentives and other programs and recommend corrective actions where needed
- Research payroll, tax and absence regulations
- Ensure overall data quality with employment records
- Complete employment verifications and unemployment claims
- Assist in annual audits with external auditors
- Provide training on payrolls to both the team and to employees
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Business, Human Resources, Finance, etc)
- 3 to 5 years of prior payroll or related experience
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Experience with different timekeeping and payroll processing software
- Experience with building and implementing new systems
What You Should Know About This Team
- When you work in Payroll, you work for a team that has a major impact on the company’s financials. Payroll is commonly the largest expense for most organizations, and we have the opportunity to help control those costs.
- Making sure that thousands of employees in six different countries get paid accurately and on time twice every month means working with strict bank deadlines. Our team knows how to meet those deadlines while also having fun and maintaining an easy-going working environment where everyone collaborates often. We leverage everyone’s strengths, and we partner effectively with our larger goals and purpose always in mind. You will have an opportunity to work with teams that are both upstream and downstream from you, gaining a full understanding of the HR processes from start to finish, and developing relationships throughout the company.
- Working for a growing tech company also means opening up new countries, implementing new software systems, being able to create new processes and analyze existing processes to allow for more efficiencies. You will be able to take full ownership of meaningful projects while working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment that provides continuous opportunities to learn and grow through different challenges.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- CFO & senior leadership are really invested in making finance an enjoyable department and solid culture
- Quarterly team activities
- Global connections with team members in EMEA and APJ
- Lots of learning opportunities - the leadership team prioritizes continual learning
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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Last updated on Aug 26, 2024