Senior Payroll Analyst

About the role

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Senior Payroll Analyst in Bogotá, part of its Bogota Capability Center within the Americas region. The role sits in the Finance function, under Payroll, and focuses on timeliness, accuracy and compliance. It covers payroll data preparation, multi-country payroll support, incident and change management, continuous improvement and digital capability projects.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure payroll data from internal applications flows into the payroll system before the payroll deadline.
• Support accounting, payments, time and attendance and long-term incentive processes as part of payroll.
• Perform checks, controls, variance analysis and reconciliations before payroll is finalized.
• Act as payroll support for testing, data management and process documentation.
• Advise the third-party payroll provider on payroll calculations and support multi-country payroll in line with company, statutory and legal requirements.
• Handle month-end, quarter-end and year-end payroll returns and reporting.
• Execute SOX compliance, internal controls and regulatory requirements, keeping payroll records accurate and confidential.
• Maintain payroll process documentation, raise continuous improvement and automation ideas, and resolve payroll inquiries.
• Support cross-functional projects and demonstrate knowledge of AI concepts and frameworks.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years of payroll or HR operations experience in the Americas region.
• Strong knowledge of US payroll processing, regulations and vendors.
• Strong spoken and written English.
• Preferred: team leadership experience, payroll certification (e.g. CPP, FPC), multi-national company experience, and shared services experience.

Required skills

• Payroll processing, payroll reporting and payroll taxes.
• Knowledge of third-party providers such as ADP, NGA, SD Worx.
• Preferred: eTime, Kronos, Salesforce Service Cloud, SAP, Workday.
• Required: knowledge of Desktop Procedures (DTPs) and SOX and business controls compliance.