About Coursera
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Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
Why Join Us
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We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to join our accounting team. This role is responsible for supporting the end-to-end payroll process across multiple countries, primarily in the EMEA and APAC regions. You will play a key role in ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing while working closely with internal partners such as HR and Finance, and coordinating with external payroll providers.
This is an excellent opportunity to build on your international payroll experience in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. If you're a motivated self-starter who values payroll accuracy, enjoys problem-solving, and is passionate about delivering an exceptional employee experience, this role could be a great next step in your payroll career.
Working hours: Ability to overlap working hours with Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco)
Responsibilities:
- Manage end-to-end processing of international payrolls across multiple countries in coordination with external payroll vendors.
- Collect, audit, and submit payroll inputs including employee compensation changes, new hires, terminations, bonuses, and time & attendance data.
- Review and validate vendor-prepared payroll reports to ensure accuracy and compliance with local regulations and employment laws.
- Reconcile payroll outputs with internal HRIS and accounting systems; ensure proper general ledger coding and journal entries.
- Collaborate with People Operations, Equity, Accounting, and Legal teams in the administration of payroll and on payroll-related matters including benefits, taxation, and year-end reporting.
- Support employee inquiries and payroll-related projects, including year-end reporting preparation, resolve payroll tax issues, support annual audits and other ad hoc projects
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience processing payroll in EMEA and APAC regions
- Experience working with external vendors in the administration of payroll
- Familiarity with payroll regulations and employee tax requirements in regions such as EMEA and APAC
- Proficiency in Excel and experience with payroll and HRIS systems
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience using Workday and/or EY Payroll Operate Services
- Payroll experience in a global public company (experience with processing of stock transactions)
- Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, v-lookups) and proficiency with Google Suite
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact with employees across all levels
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with payroll accounting, including journal entries, reconciliation, and flux analyses
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting, finance, or related field
- 3+ years of experience processing payroll in EMEA and APAC regions
- Experience working with external vendors in the administration of payroll
- Familiarity with payroll regulations and employee tax requirements in EMEA and APAC
- Proficiency in Excel
- Experience with payroll and HRIS systems
- Ability to overlap working hours with Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco)
- Experience using Workday and/or EY Payroll Operate Services
- Payroll experience in a global public company (processing stock transactions)
- Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, v-lookups) and proficiency with Google Suite
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
- Familiarity with payroll accounting, including journal entries, reconciliation, and flux analyses
Coursera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Coursera and has not been reviewed or approved by Coursera.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles, supported by structured market benchmarking and clearly defined U.S. pay zones. Ongoing investment in compensation programs and market‑aligned ranges for in‑demand functions reinforce this positioning.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away programs include unlimited vacation (U.S./Canada), company days of rest, paid sick time, and paid parental leave with transitional part‑time support. This breadth of leave options contributes meaningful non‑cash value to the package.
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Flexible Benefits — A remote‑first approach is enabled through coworking access, connectivity stipends, and home‑office reimbursements. This flexibility stands out as a core strength of the total rewards offering.
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What We Do
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
Why Work With Us
People who thrive at here are customer-first builders who deeply understand our learners and partners, translate their needs into simple, high-impact solutions, and refuse to stop at “good enough.” They own outcomes end to end, move fast, simplify ruthlessly and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter to invent the future of learning.
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