Amazon Costa Rica is looking for a strong leader that will take the ownership and drive the change in our growing Payroll Department. We’re seeking an Payroll Ops Readiness Project Manager to join our Payroll Operations Team.

It is critical to Amazon’s on-going success that we provide the highest service to our employees. If you are motivated to dive into the detail and take ownership, we have the career you’re looking for!

About Amazon

Amazon strives to be earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. We treat every day like day one: a day to bring in fresh ideas, a day to challenge convention, a day to make more good things happen for our customers. It’s that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that will drive our success now, and reinforce our reputation for great service for years to come. You could be part of it.
It’s as simple as this: Work hard. Have fun. Make history.


About the role

The successful candidate must be eager to dive deep into processes and have proven record of delivering project results insisting on the highest standards. The preferred candidate must have finance and/or payroll knowledge and experience, ability to get requirements independently and customer obsession.

If you would like to join us to make a difference by participating in challenging projects and to make sure our employees are paid accurately and on time we definitely want to hear from you!


What is awaiting you in our Payroll team?

“What I like the most about payroll is the opportunity to contribute to many cool projects that will have positive impact to our employees”.

“Working in payroll is very dynamic and you never know what can happen during the day. You’re never bored!”

Key job responsibilities
As our LATAM Payroll Operations Projects Analyst, you will be responsible to:
• Lead end to end Payroll Projects for one country or group of countries
• Collaborate with other leaders in cross functional project and program initiatives
• Collaborate in efforts to evaluate and redesign Payroll processes to align with the company’s rapid grown and commitment to quality
• Collaborate with teams across IT, HR, Finance and Accounting to ensure that best practices are followed and implemented
• Assess new ideas/opportunities to identify what
is the best approach to reach country specific or region objectives/goals
• Lead projects such as :automation, process improvement, stakeholder engagement, legislation changes, with a set of agile methodologies.

A day in the life
-Work with cross region and cross functional teams
-Invent and simplify on new ways to execute projects in a efficient way to deliver excellence to our customers
-Boost your knowledge and experience with active learning by executing wide range of different project types

About the team
Our highest priority is to satisfy our customers through early and continuous delivery over processes and tools.
Trust and support, we build projects around motivated individuals giving them the environment, support and trust they need to get the job done.
Value-based Prioritization our highest commitment is to deliver maximum business value, from early in the project and continuing throughout.
Reflect and adjust at regular intervals on how to become more effective , then tune adjust practices and continue delivering to our customers
Collaboration - We advocate project management as a shared value-creation process with teams working and interacting together to deliver the greatest value.
Continuous attention to excellence enhances agility