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Our mission is to make it simple for companies to provide their employees with all kinds of leave (i.e. family, medical, etc.).\nCurrently, the leave management process is painful and inefficient for everyone. Company leaders struggle to keep up with regulations and processes that change frequently, and the employees going on leave are overwhelmed by bureaucracy at an exceptionally important juncture in their career. Sparrow transforms this ordinarily tedious, error-prone, complex to remain compliant, and time-consuming process into a 30-minute end-to-end experience saving teams time (20 - 40 hours per leave) and money (up to $30K per leave).\nSparrow is headquartered in San Francisco but all employees work remotely across the country. Sparrow is a diverse, highly talented, and supportive team. Together, we are hardworking, collaborative, smart, and humble-after all, we’re solving real problems.\nAbout the role\nAs a Leave Payroll Analyst on Sparrow's Customer Experience team you will be responsible for preparing employee leave and payroll calculations for our customers, and will have a hand in helping us build a better product.\nHere’s what you’ll do\nProvide internal support for our leave specialists with leave and payroll calculations:\nWork with the leave specialists by preparing customized and personalized payroll plans and payroll reconciliations for our customers’ payroll teams.\n\nAct responsively, accurately, and with attention to customers’ payroll deadlines.\n\nEnsure correct personalized payroll plans are calculated on the Sparrow dashboard.\n\nInterface and collaborate comfortably with a variety of key parties including: leave specialists, sales and marketing, and engineering teams through various channels (instant message, email, video chat).\n\nEffectively collaborate with our customers’ payroll teams to ensure they love Sparrow:\nWork with onboarding specialists to understand our customers’ payroll needs.\n\nAssist with the setup of customized personalized payroll plans, payroll schedules, and payroll workflows.\n\nShare best practices for leave payroll when needed.\n\nIn collaboration with the Sparrow team, build a better product:\nCollect and share product feedback.\n\nIdentify improvements in payroll calculations software and services.\n\nProvide input on payroll system integrations.\n\nImplement process improvements to resolve inefficiencies and address customer pain points.\n\nAbout you\n2+ years of experience in either data-focused operations, payroll, accounting, or bookkeeping.\n\nExcellent spreadsheet skills. Adept at using Excel functions, formulas, and cell formatting.\n\nSuperior organization skills and detail-oriented. You're able to manage a multitude of tasks with accuracy and attention to deadlines.\n\nOutstanding verbal and written communication skills. Clear, empathetic communicator able to distill complex information to ensure understanding. Is able to work with different communication styles.\n\nTrustworthy. You act with discretion and can be trusted to handle confidential information appropriately.\n\nLearner's mindset. Highly self-directed, adaptable, and open to feedback and implementation in a fast paced, always changing environment.\n\nSomeone looking for something new. This is not a traditional payroll role so you will not be doing full-cycle payroll. Instead you will create payroll plans for our customers .\n\nAble to become a subject matter expert. Your coworkers and Sparrow customers will look to you as a go-to resource for all things payroll.\n\nCompensation\nThis is a full time, non-exempt hourly position. Compensation ranges from $23.53 to $29.09 per hour and is based on your legal state of residence.\n\nWhy Sparrow?\nOur work at Sparrow is impactful. We help People teams with one of the hardest parts of their job, and we support employees at a time when they need it most. We’re driven by our mission, much like a nonprofit, but with the resources and scale of a fast-growing venture-backed company.\nSparrow is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. While we are united by our excitement for the mission and product, the diversity of our experiences is one of our strengths. The Sparrow team is made up of people with all types of backgrounds, and we have teammates in 40 states and counting. 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