The Payroll Coordinator is responsible for supporting payroll processes across Argentina, Peru, and Colombia, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely employee payments. This role involves working closely with local payroll providers, HR, and finance teams to gather, review, and validate payroll data, ensuring alignment with company policies and local labor regulations.

Key responsibilities include processing employee salaries, benefits, bonuses, and deductions, while ensuring compliance with tax and social security laws in each country. The Payroll Coordinator also assists in resolving payroll discrepancies, responding to employee inquiries, and preparing payroll reports for internal and external audits.

Additionally, this role involves maintaining payroll records, ensuring data confidentiality, and supporting process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy. The Payroll Coordinator must stay updated on payroll regulations and labor laws in Argentina, Peru, and Colombia, collaborating with relevant stakeholders to implement necessary updates.

Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in payroll systems are essential for this role. Effective communication and coordination with cross-functional teams are crucial to ensuring smooth payroll operations. The Payroll Coordinator plays a key role in maintaining employee satisfaction by ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing in compliance with local regulations.

Key job responsibilities
Payroll Processing & Compliance:

Assist in processing payroll for Argentina, Peru, and Colombia, ensuring accuracy and compliance with local labor laws.
Work with third-party payroll providers to validate payroll calculations, tax deductions, and social security contributions.
Ensure timely and correct salary payments, bonuses, and benefits administration.

Data Management & Reporting:

Gather, review, and validate payroll data from HR systems.
Maintain accurate payroll records, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
Prepare payroll reports for internal audits, finance, and regulatory compliance.

Issue Resolution & Employee Support:

Address payroll discrepancies and resolve employee payroll inquiries promptly.
Provide support in tax and social security matters related to payroll.
Collaborate with HR to manage employee changes affecting payroll (new hires, terminations, salary adjustments).

Process Improvement & Compliance Monitoring:

Identify and support payroll process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
Stay updated on labor laws and tax regulations in ARG, PER & COL and implement necessary payroll adjustments.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

Work closely with HR, Finance, and external payroll providers to ensure smooth payroll operations.
Support payroll audits and ensure compliance with company policies and local regulations.

A day in the life

A typical day for a Payroll Coordinator begins with reviewing payroll data and validating employee records for Argentina, Peru, and Colombia. They collaborate with HR to ensure salary adjustments, new hires, and terminations are correctly reflected. Throughout the day, they liaise with payroll providers, address employee inquiries, and resolve discrepancies. They also monitor tax and social security compliance, prepare payroll reports for finance, and support audits. Between deadlines, they work on process improvements, ensuring payroll operations run smoothly and efficiently.

About the team
ARG-PER-COL Payroll is a team inside the LATAM Payroll organization within FinOps. With a multi-country scope, the payroll team provides vast career opportunities and day-to-day cases that makes your career progression rich and full different scenarios, taking you out of routine.