The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Citigroup is hiring a Payroll Specialist in Irvine, CA.

• Role description

  An autonomy-driven, deadline-driven Payroll Specialist will thrive in this senior role supporting finance operations in Irvine, CA. Everything here scales with you — $137,000 - $190,000 at 6 years, finance ownership soon after, and a Citigroup ladder above.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Walk auditors through documentation so clean it answers itself
  • Run the cost-accounting layer beneath every finance product line
  • Keep the CA unemployment and withholding accounts perfectly square
  • Streamline month-end close to reduce reporting turnaround time
  • Manage banking relationships and optimize treasury operations
  • Chase down unreconciled items until the subledger ties to the GL
  • Reconcile the loan amortization schedule against every lender statement
  • Drive the annual planning cycle and consolidate financial projections

  What You'll Bring

  • Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
  • Hands-on command of Strategic Planning, with SQL as a close second
  • Experience at the senior level inside an internship role
  • Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
  • The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking

  Citigroup builds the unglamorous finance plumbing that Irvine, CA relies on, and it does so with detail-focused pride. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

  The offer rewards both ends, $137,000 - $190,000 for your Strategic Planning today and mentorship for the senior leader you become tomorrow.

  Live and hiring this very moment for the Irvine, CA team.

  Go ahead and apply; the worst that happens is Citigroup learns your name.

• Required skills

  • IFRS
  • Treasury Management
  • Accruals
  • SQL
  • CFA Certification
  • Strategic Planning
  • Goal Setting

• Benefits & perks

  • Equipment Allowance
  • Discounts on company products
  • Frequent flyer program enrollment
  • Free snacks and beverages
  • Performance Bonuses
  • Parking Allowance
  • Direct access to leadership
  • Spot bonuses and recognition awards
  • 401(k) matching
  • Commuter benefits
  • Onsite Childcare

• Apply before 2027-01-04

  Submit your application for this Internship finance position.