Payroll Analyst

Koch; Región Centro; On-site; MXN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch in Mexico is seeking a Payroll Analyst to support end-to-end payroll processes, ensuring accurate and timely delivery for multiple entities and payroll frequencies. You will analyze payroll data, resolve discrepancies, and support labor, tax, and social security compliance.

You will collaborate with Human Resources, Finance, Tax, Benefits, and external providers to improve controls, support audits, and optimize payroll systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with complex, end-to-end payroll processing in Mexico.
• Knowledge of payroll calculations, taxes, and social security obligations.
• Proficient Excel skills for data analysis, reconciliations, and datasets.

Responsibilities

• Execute accurate and timely weekly and biweekly payrolls for multiple entities.
• Validate inputs, data, time and attendance, earnings, deductions, taxes, and benefits; resolve exceptions.
• Process year-end adjustments and reconciliations; support monthly close activities.
• Ensure compliance with payroll, labor, tax, and social security requirements.
• Collaborate with HR, Finance, Tax, Benefits, and external providers to resolve payroll matters.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Payroll calculations

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field

Tools

Eslabón

Kronos

SAP

TREES

RH7

Job description

Your Job

As a Payroll Analyst, you will play a key role in the end-to-end execution of payroll processes in Mexico, ensuring accurate and timely payroll delivery. You will analyze payroll information, identify and resolve variances, strengthen controls, and collaborate across functions to support labor, tax, and social security compliance.

Our Team

You will be part of the Payroll team and collaborate with Human Resources, Finance, Tax, Benefits, site leaders, and external service providers. The team supports processes across one or more legal entities, business units, and payroll frequencies, with a focus on accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement.

What You Will Do

• Execute accurate and timely weekly and biweekly payrolls for assigned employee populations, legal entities, and business units.
• Validate payroll inputs, employee data, time and attendance records, earnings, deductions, taxes, and benefits; investigate and resolve exceptions before payroll close.
• Process special and annual payroll activities, including terminations, severance, profit sharing, Christmas bonus, savings fund, food vouchers, and applicable year-end adjustments.
• Complete payroll, tax, payment, and accounting reconciliations; prepare accruals and journal entries and support monthly close activities.
• Support compliance with applicable payroll, labor, tax, and social security requirements, including SAT, payroll CFDI, ISR, IMSS, INFONAVIT, and FONACOT.
• Partner with Human Resources, Finance, Tax, Benefits, site teams, and external providers to resolve payroll matters, support audits, strengthen controls, and improve payroll processes and systems.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Hands-on experience with complex, end-to-end payroll processing in Mexico.
• Working knowledge of payroll calculations, taxes, benefits, Mexican labor requirements, and social security obligations.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel to analyze information, complete reconciliations, and work with datasets using formulas, filters, lookups, and pivot tables.
• Experience using payroll or time-and-attendance system such as Eslabón, Kronos, SAP, TREES or RH7, or equivalent.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Experience processing payroll for 500+ employees.
• Experience with IDSEcloud.
• Intermediate or advanced English proficiency.
• Experience with reconciliations, monthly close, accruals, and accounting integrations.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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