Payroll Specialist

April 6

Burkland

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Start Smart, Scale Fast

Strategic Business Planning • Startup Accounting • Financial & Business Modeling • Startup Fundraising • Budgeting & Forecasting

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Description

• This is an ideal role for a Payroll Specialist who is eager to broaden their impact by bringing your knowledge and experience to develop and implement best-in-class payroll practices with our early-stage startups. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role, responsible for all aspects of Payroll. • A Day in the Life - Responsible for ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely processing of semi-monthly and monthly payrolls for clients’ employees located in multi-state locations. - Review and process transactions including benefit changes, special compensation, and other adjustments. - Prepare journal entries, payroll, and benefits reconciliations, and assist with quarterly reporting and external financial audits. - Coordinate with the Accounting team to process new hires, terminations, leaves, and other changes. - Resolve inquiries from internal and external clients in a timely and professional manner. - Ensure compliance with internal controls, federal, state, and local requirements, and deadlines. - Manage regulatory filings, notices, audits, and other communications from federal and state agencies. - Work on multiple payroll platforms, partnering with vendors on system administration, maintenance, and reporting needs when necessary. - Partner with accounting and people ops to manage, reconcile, and report on employee benefit programs, including 401(k) and FSA, and work with service providers to resolve inquiries and/or provide employee training. - Prepare and process new equity awards, exercises, cancellations, and releases promptly, including off-cycle payrolls for tax withholdings.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of payroll processing experience. • FPC, CPP, NACPB, or other certifications preferred. • Strong Knowledge of payroll tax deposit, filings, principles, and wage and hour laws. • Experience with payroll platforms including ADP, Gusto, Rippling, Justworks, and Trinet. • Experience working on multiple client payroll projects at one time. • Experience processing multi-state payrolls. • Easily adapt to new technologies and tools. • Good Communication skills are a must, both Oral and Written. • Attention to detail is a must. • Must be organized, reliable, friendly, and dependable.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedule to promote a healthy work-life balance • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance for you and your dependents • Short & Long Term Disability Insurance to support you when you need it the most • Flexible PTO - Take time off from work when you need it • 401k with a company match to ensure you are ready for retirement • A generous home office expense reimbursement so you have the office you need to be productive • Forget the commute! We're a remote-first workplace, so you can work from your home office or from the beach, if you’d like! • We offer a collaborative, communicative culture, driven by our Core Purpose + Values. We work with incredibly smart people who love to learn and share what they know. If this sounds like a team you'd like to be a part of, we'd love to hear from you.