Payroll and Benefits Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $70k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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reDesign

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

reDesign is an education design and consulting organization that helps schools, districts, and youth programs implement learner-centered, competency-based education at scale. They provide competency frameworks, free and paid tools, professional learning, modular courses, and custom consulting (including a CBE Catalyst program), and offer AI-supported tools and evidence-based implementation planning to support sustainable system-level change. reDesign partners with educators to co-design solutions tailored to local contexts and has reached over a million learners.

📋 Description

• Own full-cycle US and Canada payroll processing, ensuring each pay period is accurate and timely • Serve as the day-to-day contact for UK and France payroll while working with third-party payroll providers • Maintain payroll data in Rippling, including employee changes, pay adjustments, and terminations • Research and help resolve payroll tax notices involving unemployment insurance and withholding • Reconcile payroll and benefits, including payroll deductions, benefits invoices, and general ledger entries • Support compliance-related audits by preparing payroll and benefits documentation for Finance and People Operations • Handle leave request intake and check initial eligibility against policy • Coordinate the pay impact of leave with payroll processing • Track leave case status and manage return-to-work logistics • Partner with People Operations on compliance review for complex or unclear leave cases • Answer employee questions about benefits enrollment, coverage, and plan details • Process benefits changes tied to qualifying life events • Support open enrollment logistics as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5 years of payroll processing experience, including multi-state US payroll • Experience with Canadian payroll preferred; willingness to build this expertise required • Experience with Rippling or a comparable HRIS/payroll platform strongly preferred • Familiarity with US leave laws (FMLA, state paid leave/PFML) preferred • Experience researching and resolving payroll tax notices (SUI, withholding) directly with tax agencies or through a payroll provider • Strong attention to detail and ability to handle sensitive, confidential data • Ability to work cross-functionally with Finance and third-party vendors • Experience coordinating with international payroll vendors a plus (UK/France) • Applicants must meet applicable employment eligibility requirements; employer participates in E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance • Dental Insurance • Vision Insurance • 401(k) retirement plan with company match (annual dollar cap applied) • Flexible time off plan • 15 paid holidays • Sick leave (amount varies by state requirements and is at least the minimum required by any state) • Short-term and long-term disability • Life insurance • Paid parental leave • Reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process