Payment Specialist

Summary

Join Turing's Finance team as a detail-oriented Payment Specialist, managing global contractor payout operations. Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payments across various jurisdictions. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, excels at improving financial processes, and possesses strong collaboration skills. Responsibilities include owning the contractor payment lifecycle, managing payout processes, validating payment inputs, responding to inquiries, and ensuring global compliance. You will also prepare audit documentation, identify operational inefficiencies, maintain best practices, and collaborate with various teams. This role requires experience in finance operations, payroll, or payment processing, familiarity with specific platforms, and a strong understanding of global compliance for contractor payouts.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years in finance operations, payroll, or payment processing roles
• Familiarity with platforms like Deel, HiBob, Jibble, etc
• Understanding of global compliance for contractor payouts
• Proficient in Excel & Google Sheets
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders in other departments
• Detail-oriented with high data accuracy
• Proficient use of AI agents to enhance workload efficiency
• Proactive problem-solver
• Strong communicator and organizer
• Manages multiple priorities and deadlines effectively
• Navigates ambiguity and builds new processes confidently

Responsibilities

• Own the contractor payment lifecycle, ensuring timely execution and accurate documentation
• Manage monthly and off-cycle payout processes
• Validate and reconcile payment inputs across systems and teams
• Respond to payment-related inquiries from internal stakeholders and external contractors
• Ensure global compliance with tax, employment, and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
• Prepare audit documentation and maintain controls for payout-related processes
• Partner with Finance, People, and Legal teams to improve data flow and automation between platforms
• Proactively identify operational inefficiencies and drive improvement initiatives
• Maintain up-to-date best practices and documentation of payout processes
• Collaborate with Finance and People teams to ensure smooth payment execution
• Partner with the Revenue Accounting team on month-end close activities related to contractor expenses

Preferred Qualifications

• Take ownership and pride in financial execution
• Love optimizing processes and systems
• Enjoy working at global scale and complexity
• Are highly accountable and action-oriented
• Embrace AI and automation for scale and efficiency

Benefits

• Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
• Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours
• Full-time remote opportunity