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Payroll Specialist

EF Education First

EF Education First

Accounting & Finance
Panama · Panama City Beach, FL, USA
Posted on Dec 2, 2025
We are seeking a highly motivated Payroll Specialist to join our global payroll team. This position plays a key role in ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing across multiple countries. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with ADP GlobalView or SAP, strong technical knowledge of payroll processes, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multinational environment. High integrity, attention to detail, and a results-driven mindset are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
  • Payroll Processing: Execute and validate payroll for assigned countries using ADP GlobalView or SAP, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
  • Compliance: Guarantee adherence to local tax laws, social security, and statutory requirements across jurisdictions.
  • Issue Resolution: Collaborate with HR, Finance, and external vendors to investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies promptly.
  • Reporting: Prepare, review, and deliver payroll reports for internal stakeholders, audits, and regulatory bodies.
  • Process Improvement: Support global payroll projects, system enhancements, and continuous process optimization initiatives.
  • Data Integrity: Maintain accurate employee payroll records and ensure confidentiality at all times.
Qualifications & Skills
  • Experience: Minimum 3+ years of payroll experience, preferably in a global or regional role.
  • Language Skills: Fluent in English; additional languages are a strong advantage.
  • Systems Expertise: Hands-on experience with ADP GlobalView or SAP payroll systems.
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of payroll processes, statutory compliance, and international payroll complexities.
  • Soft Skills:
    • Excellent attention to detail and high integrity.
    • Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
    • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment while maintaining focus on deliverables.
  • Technical Skills: Proficient in MS Excel and comfortable with data analysis.

About EF Education First

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.