Payroll Intern - Tax & Legal Department

About the role

PwC's tax payroll services advise clients on tax-related payroll matters, helping them comply with tax regulations and resolve payroll tax issues. The HR and Payroll team is growing, and it is looking for a motivated Payroll Intern in Baku to support the team with payroll data preparation, reconciliations, documentation and project administration, while learning about Azerbaijan payroll, labour and tax requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Collect, organise and validate payroll inputs from clients, such as employee master data, timesheets, leave records, HR orders, bonuses, deductions and bank details.
• Assist with preparing payroll calculation files under supervision, covering salary, leave, sick leave, business trips, overtime, night work and public holidays.
• Support the preparation of payroll registers, payslips, bank-payment schedules, payroll journals and statutory reporting schedules.
• Perform basic reconciliations between payroll inputs, calculation files, employee outputs and accounting schedules, documenting differences and follow-up points.
• Maintain payroll calendars, data-request lists, status trackers, filing folders and supporting documentation for several client engagements.
• Support compliance reviews by extracting information, checking samples against source documents, updating testing files and organising evidence.
• Conduct supervised research on Azerbaijan payroll, labour and employment-tax matters and help prepare short technical summaries or monthly updates.
• Assist with client presentations, reports, process maps and working papers using PwC templates, and handle data confidentially.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Human Resources or a related field.
• Basic understanding of accounting, payroll, employment taxation or Azerbaijan labour legislation; relevant coursework or internship exposure is an advantage.
• Strong numerical accuracy and ability to work with structured data.
• Ability to organise documents and data carefully, follow instructions and meet deadlines.
• High level of discretion and responsibility with personal and payroll information.
• Clear communication, teamwork, curiosity and willingness to learn from feedback.
• Availability to work consistently according to the agreed internship schedule.

Required skills

• Good Excel skills, including formulas, sorting, filtering and basic lookups.
• Fluency in Azerbaijani and good written and spoken English; Russian and/or Turkish is an advantage.

What we offer

• Supervised experience across managed payroll, compliance reviews, process improvement and implementation projects.
• Practical foundations across multiple sectors, workforce structures and working-time regimes.
• Learning through collaboration with payroll, HR, tax, labour-law, accounting, technology and regional teams.
• Development of core capabilities in Excel, payroll documentation, controls, data quality and digital tools.