Payroll & Benefits Intern (Practicante de Nómina y Compensación)

The salary for the Payroll & Benefits Intern is $2.800.000 COP monthly.

About Sezzle

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We're not just transforming payments; we're redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we're building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you're excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

About the Role

As a Payroll & Benefits Intern, you'll join our People Operations team and work directly with our Senior Director of Payroll & Benefits. You'll see how payroll, compensation, and benefits run across Colombia, the United States, and Canada inside a fast-growing, publicly traded fintech. This is a paid, learning-focused internship with a clear path to full-time conversion based on performance.

We are seeking a talented and motivated intern who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. No prior payroll experience is required; attention to detail, curiosity, and a good head for numbers matter more.

What You'll Do

• Help run monthly payroll: data entry, reconciliations, and documentation
• Keep payroll, benefits, and HR system data accurate, and flag anything that doesn't match
• 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 we can automate, including testing new AI tools

What You'll Learn

• How multi-country payroll works, from Colombian labor law to US payroll and benefits rules (FLSA, ACA, ERISA, COBRA)
• How companies benchmark and set compensation
• How People Operations supports a company's growth, including Sezzle's bank charter readiness

What We Look For

• 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), since you'll work daily with US-based teams
• Native or near-native Spanish
• Discretion with confidential information
• Comfortable using AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT to boost productivity, research, and communication

Nice to Have

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

About You

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You're not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things.
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Compensation: The salary for the Payroll & Benefits Intern is $2.800.000 COP monthly.

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