Senior Agricultural Payroll Analyst

Description

Job Summary: Senior Agricultural Payroll Analyst to manage payroll processes, ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance in agricultural operations. Key Highlights: 1. Key role in ensuring the correct execution of payroll processes. 2. Direct contact with labor-specific characteristics of the agricultural sector. 3. Cross-functional collaboration with different departments of the company. About the Position At **Equator Surveyors Land and Agricultural Services**, we support agricultural and territorial operations through efficient administrative management, reliable information, and processes tailored to the specific needs of the agro-industrial sector. We are currently seeking a **Senior Agricultural Payroll Analyst** to join our team in Parral. The selected candidate will be responsible for managing payroll processes for permanent, temporary, and seasonal staff, ensuring calculation accuracy, adherence to deadlines, and proper application of current labor regulations. We seek a professional with experience in payroll, personnel administration, and related processes within agricultural or agro-industrial companies, capable of handling variable staffing levels and periods of high seasonal activity. Why work with us? **Key operational role:** Your work will be essential to ensure payroll processes are executed correctly and within established deadlines. **Sector-specific experience:** You will have direct contact with labor and administrative particularities inherent to agricultural and agro-industrial operations. **Cross-functional work:** You will collaborate with Human Resources, Administration, Finance, Field Operations, and managers across various units. **Professional development:** You will strengthen your expertise in payroll, labor legislation, data analysis, and workforce management. **Autonomy:** We value professionals capable of identifying discrepancies, resolving incidents, and proposing improvements to administrative processes. Main Responsibilities **Payroll Process:** Execute and review monthly payroll calculations for permanent, temporary, and seasonal workers. **Attendance Control:** Validate information on working hours, overtime, shifts, leaves, absences, and other factors impacting payment. **Bonuses and Incentives:** Review and calculate production bonuses, incentives, special agreements, or other variable components as applicable. **Contracts and Personnel Movements:** Coordinate hires, contractual modifications, addendums, schedule changes, and other personnel administration-related movements. **Termination Settlements (Finiquitos):** Prepare and review termination settlement calculations, pending vacation days, and other concepts associated with the end of employment relationships. **Social Security Contributions:** Verify information related to AFP (Pension Fund Administrators), health insurance, unemployment insurance, and other statutory social security obligations. **Reconciliations:** Perform reconciliations between payroll, accounting, cost centers, and attendance records. **Reporting:** Prepare reports on workforce composition, labor costs, overtime, absenteeism, and other payroll indicators. **Handling Inquiries:** Resolve worker and internal department queries regarding payments, deductions, settlements, and contractual information. **Process Improvement:** Identify opportunities to automate controls, reduce errors, and improve the efficiency of monthly closings. What We Are Looking For **Experience:** Ideally 4–7 years of experience in payroll, personnel administration, or human resources. **Sector Experience:** Experience in agriculture, agro-industry, packing, fruit production, or companies with seasonal staffing will be highly valued. **Education:** Degree in Human Resource Management Engineering, Auditing and Accounting, Business Administration, Technical Human Resources, or a related field. **Labor Legislation:** Practical knowledge of Chilean labor regulations applicable to payroll and workforce administration. **Excel:** Intermediate or advanced proficiency for payroll analysis, reconciliations, controls, and reporting. **Payroll Systems:** Experience using payroll platforms, ERP systems, or HR software. **Analytical Skills:** Ability to identify discrepancies and accurately review large volumes of information. **Organization:** Ability to manage demanding closing schedules and multiple simultaneous priorities. Desirable Requirements * Experience processing payroll for agricultural workers or seasonal laborers. * Familiarity with systems such as Buk, Talana, Rex\+, Softland, SAP HCM, or equivalents. * Experience with Previred. * Handling of seasonal, project-based, or task-specific contracts. * Experience administering variable bonuses and incentive systems. * Knowledge of payroll accounting. * Experience working with agricultural cost centers. * Proficiency in Power BI or other reporting tools. * Knowledge of payroll auditing. * Experience supporting labor inspection processes. It is not necessary to meet all desirable requirements. If you have solid payroll experience and the ability to manage payroll processes accurately, we would like to learn more about your profile. What We Value We seek an analytical, organized, and rigorous individual capable of working with sensitive information and maintaining high accuracy during each payroll close. We especially value professionals who can anticipate discrepancies, maintain orderly documentation, and resolve inquiries clearly and professionally. We also appreciate adaptability to staffing changes, periods of high activity, and operational demands specific to the agricultural sector. Application If you have experience in payroll, personnel administration, or payroll processing and are seeking a new professional challenge in Parral, we invite you to apply. Please attach your updated CV and include information about your payroll processing experience, approximate number of workers administered, payroll systems used, and experience with agricultural or seasonal staffing. Salary: $2\.500 \- $2\.700 per month Workplace: On-site employment