The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  ScaleForward is hiring a Payroll Specialist in Gresham, OR.

• Role description

  We need a Payroll Specialist comfortable with 5 of hands-on accounting, reporting, and stakeholder-ready analysis. The reward structure favors doers: $87,000 - $123,000 upfront, real finance ownership, and a ScaleForward team pulling the same direction.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Identify cost-saving opportunities through detailed spend analysis
  • Translate raw numbers into clear dashboards for non-finance stakeholders
  • Coach mid-level analysts on how a clean reconciliation should feel
  • Hold the line on capitalization policy across every finance project
  • Keep the OR property-tax filings ahead of every assessor deadline
  • Conduct profitability analysis by product, region, and customer segment
  • Ensure compliance with GAAP, internal controls, and OR tax regulations

  What You'll Bring

  • Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
  • Critical thinking skills and sound, independent judgment
  • Comfort presenting to an OR-wide audience without a script
  • Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
  • Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of an internship project

  Our Gresham, OR headquarters is home to a detail-focused group of builders, designers, and problem-solvers at ScaleForward. Mentorship goes both ways at ScaleForward, and seniority never means having all the answers.

  What we put on the table: $87,000 - $123,000, coaching for your IFRS, benefits worth having, and freedom to grow at your own pace.

  We are filling this Payroll Specialist seat now, with onboarding planned for the near term.

  Quit imagining a better finance job and apply for the one in front of you.

• Required skills

  • IFRS
  • Tableau
  • Anaplan
  • Variance Analysis
  • Power BI
  • Negotiation
  • Emotional Intelligence

• Benefits & perks

  • Professional association memberships
  • Student loan repayment assistance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Partner Discounts
  • Educational Assistance
  • HSA investment options
  • Community Service
  • Bike Storage
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Travel per diem
  • Paid certification exam fees

• Apply before 2026-08-03

  Submit your application for this Internship finance position.