Leave Payroll Analyst, Sparrow
Compensation ranges from $23.53 to $29.09 per hour and is based on your legal state of residence
Employee leave management software
Open for applications
Employee leave management software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Compensation ranges from $23.53 to $29.09 per hour and is based on your legal state of residence
201-500 employees
Company mission
To take the stress out of employee leave, eliminate the associated headache of compliance for employers, and ultimately save time and money.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in either data-focused operations, payroll, accounting, or bookkeeping
- Excellent spreadsheet skills. Adept at using Excel functions, formulas, and cell formatting
- Superior organization skills and detail-oriented. You're able to manage a multitude of tasks with accuracy and attention to deadlines
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Clear, empathetic communicator able to distill complex information to ensure understanding. Is able to work with different communication styles
- Trustworthy. You act with discretion and can be trusted to handle confidential information appropriately
- Learner's mindset. Highly self-directed, adaptable, and open to feedback and implementation in a fast paced, always changing environment
- Someone 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
- Able to become a subject matter expert. Your coworkers and Sparrow customers will look to you as a go-to resource for all things payroll
What the job involves
- As 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
- Provide internal support for our leave specialists with leave and payroll calculations:
- Work with the leave specialists by preparing customized and personalized payroll plans and payroll reconciliations for our customers’ payroll teams
- Act responsively, accurately, and with attention to customers’ payroll deadlines
- Ensure correct personalized payroll plans are calculated on the Sparrow dashboard
- Interface 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)
- Effectively collaborate with our customers’ payroll teams to ensure they love Sparrow:
- Work with onboarding specialists to understand our customers’ payroll needs
- Assist with the setup of customized personalized payroll plans, payroll schedules, and payroll workflows
- Share best practices for leave payroll when needed
- In collaboration with the Sparrow team, build a better product:
- Collect and share product feedback
- Identify improvements in payroll calculations software and services
- Provide input on payroll system integrations
- Implement process improvements to resolve inefficiencies and address customer pain points
Our take
Taking leave from work can initially seem like an easy process, but in reality it’s often stressful and time-consuming for all involved. Employers must comply with ever-changing regulations at local, federal, and state levels which makes the leave process a legal minefield, and large quantities of paperwork must be tackled by many different departments.
Sparrow develops software that allows the HR departments of enterprises to automate the compliance and admin process of employee leave, with the ultimate aim to make taking leave stress-free for employees and employers alike.
Whilst Sparrow faces competition from similar companies, its benchmarking and consulting processes are unique and can tackle complicated and unexpected leave situations where similar products often fail. With substantial funding awarded in 2022 being used to accelerate sales, product development, and team scaling, Sparrow is retaining its edge.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2025
$35m
SERIES B
Feb 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55m
Company benefits
- Everyone is an Owner
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid Family & Medical Leave
- Paid Health, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Commuter Benefits
- WFH Office Reimbursement
- Work From Anywhere
Company values
- We have limited bandwidth - Our business has grown faster than our company. Leave affects everyone. Sparrow’s market is the intersection of people who have jobs and people who take time off work. We do not just lead this market. We invented it. This means that we need to work together to ensure we clearly understand the impact each project will have before we start working.
- We don't have all the answers - The problems we’re solving are beyond our current expertise, meaning that there is incredible room for growth for everyone joining Sparrow. We are willing to give enormous responsibilities to people at any stage of their career if they demonstrate the ability to run with them.
- We build for the long-term - Building a sustainable team and product is a marathon, not a sprint. We believe in investing time in planning, communication, training, and personal growth -- so that we are all able to have a lasting impact together.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Deborah Hanus
(CEO)Started as an AI Researcher at MIT, Harvard, and Google Brain with funding from the National Science Foundation. Lived in Cambodia for a year as a Fulbright Scholar.
Samarth Keshava
(CTO)14 years at Google Search. Was a Senior Staff Software Engineer, and ran the engineering team responsible for the overall UI of the Google Search Results Page. Graduated from Yale.
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