Payroll Analyst

Koch; Región Centro; On-site; MXN 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch is seeking a Payroll Analyst to manage end-to-end payroll processing in Mexico, ensuring accurate and timely payroll delivery. You will analyze inputs, data, and records across entities to support compliance with labor, tax, and social security requirements.

You will collaborate with HR, Finance, Tax, Benefits, and external providers, executing weekly and biweekly payrolls and contributing to process improvements.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

End-to-end payroll processing

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Human Resources, or related field

Tools

Eslabón

Kronos

SAP

TREES

RH7

Job description

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.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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.