Payroll & Benefits Intern (Practicante de Nómina y Compensación)

The role

You will join the People Operations team to support payroll, compensation, and benefits across Colombia, the United States, and Canada. You will perform data entry, reconciliations, and assist with audits and compensation benchmarking.

What you will do

• Help run monthly payroll through data entry, reconciliations, and documentation
• Keep payroll, benefits, and HR system data accurate
• Support benefits enrollments, changes, and employee records
• Help prepare documents for monthly, quarterly, and year-end audits
• Gather market data for compensation benchmarking
• Answer employee questions about payroll and benefits
• Spot manual steps to automate, including testing new AI tools

Required qualifications

• Current university student or recent graduate in Accounting (Contaduría Pública), Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with numbers
• Good Excel or Google Sheets skills
• English proficiency (written and spoken)
• Native or near-native Spanish
• Discretion with confidential information
• Comfortable using AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT

Nice to have

• Coursework or basic knowledge of Colombian payroll, taxes, or labor regulations
• Interest in automation and process improvement

About the company

Sezzle is a fintech company with a mission to financially empower the next generation through interest-free installment plans. They are building an innovative team to redefine the shopping experience.