Payroll Specialist

Zoom; High Point (NC); On-site; USD 71,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Coaching

Coverage

Flexible hours

Job summary

Zoom, based in North Carolina, seeks a Payroll Specialist to translate financial performance into actionable insights and guide the next chapter of the company’s finance efforts. With 3 years of cost accounting experience, this mid-level role pays $71,000–$94,000 and offers a practical path you can truly walk.

The role collaborates across leadership to forecast headcount costs, streamline the AP cycle, and uncover opportunities to save money.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with cost accounting or payroll finance is a plus.
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills with data.

Responsibilities

• Assist with quarterly investor reporting and financial narratives.
• Forecast headcount cost as Zoom scales in High Point, NC.
• Reduce accounts payable cycle time without straining vendor relations.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through spend analysis.
• Partner with department heads to track spending against budgets.
• Coach mid-level analysts on how a clean reconciliation should feel.

Skills

Attention to detail

Decision making

Data analysis

Forecasting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Excel

Spend analytics tools

Job description

As our Payroll Specialist, you will translate financial performance into the insights that guide Zoom's next chapter. Sized right for 3 years of Cost Accounting, this NC role pays $71,000 - $94,000 and opens a path you actually want to walk.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with quarterly investor reporting and detail-loving financial narratives
• Forecast headcount cost as Zoom scales through High Point, NC
• Trim days off the AP cycle without straining a single vendor
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through detailed spend analysis
• Hand leadership a forecast they trust enough to hire against
• Partner with department heads to track spending against approved budgets
• Coach mid-level analysts on how a clean reconciliation should feel

What You'll Bring

• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
• Comfort steering finance conversations toward a decision
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things rather than good intentions
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Zoom is where curious, flat-and-fast people come to build the future of finance. The door to every manager at Zoom is genuinely open, calendar permitting and politics aside.

The package speaks for itself: $71,000 - $94,000, coaching, coverage, and the flexible temporary hours that calmly-fast-moving finance pros expect.

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