Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LAGO is a global organization seeking an Operations & Finance Analyst to manage the financial and operational backbone of their teams. The role involves overseeing payroll, tax payments, and operational reporting while serving as a central coordination point for managed entities.

Responsibilities

• Run biweekly payroll across our deployed teams, partnering with managers to get it accurate and on time
• Prepare and process tax payments accurately and on schedule
• Produce biweekly client invoices
• Maintain backup payroll and invoice-preview files
• Reconcile payroll and billing, and keep GAAP/billing documentation organized and audit-ready
• Pull the information needed to create contracts from source files and support contract creation
• Update daily attendance flagging exceptions for manager review
• Maintain team rosters as new team members join, including sensitive fields managers do not have access to
• Refresh the Springboard Dashboard each week ahead of the leadership meeting
• Build and own the Capacity Plan
• Produce ad-hoc reports and analyses as projects require
• Proactively surface insights from our operational and financial data and make recommendations to leadership
• Act as the central coordination point for our managed entities. One to two today, with more on the way
• Drive onboarding and offboarding processes for team members end to end
• Coordinate facilities needs
• Liaise with our local attorney and accountant partners. Routing items, following up, and keeping things on track, while escalating major legal or financial decisions to leadership
• Find better ways for us to operate and put them in place, streamlining and automating repetitive work wherever you can

Skills

• 3–6 years of experience blending data analysis and project management or coordination
• Solid finance literacy: hands-on comfort with payroll, invoicing, basic accounting and GAAP concepts, and tax-payment workflows. A formal accounting degree is not required, but demonstrated finance-operations experience is
• Advanced Google Sheets / Excel skills — pivot tables, complex formulas, and clean dashboards — paired with an automation mindset
• Strong written English and clear, comfortable spoken English for live coordination with US stakeholders and external partners
• Working US hours 8:00-4:30 MST
• Highly proactive and detail-oriented, with sound judgment and discretion handling sensitive payroll and personnel data
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, data, or a related field preferred — equivalent hands-on experience accepted
• QuickBooks experience
• Experience with Deel and/or Cadana
• Experience with global contractor payroll and/or international entity operations
• Automation and scripting experience (e.g., Google Apps Script, macros) and familiarity with modern AI tools for streamlining work
• SQL and/or a BI tool (Looker, Power BI, Tableau)
• Availability across full US business hours

Benefits

• Remote Work: Work from anywhere—our team is global, and we value work-life balance.
• Growth Opportunities: As a key player i you’ll have the chance to shape your role and grow with us.
• Innovative Culture: Join a team that is passionate about leveraging data to solve challenges and drive success in a rapidly evolving market.

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