Payroll Specialist
About the role
We are seeking a detail oriented Payroll Accountant to join our dynamic Finance and Accounting team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in supporting our expanding organization, payroll operations across all US States and international countries such as Canada and Costa Rica. This opportunity is ideal for someone who has a strong foundation in US payroll across multiple tax jurisdictions and is eager to further develop and broaden their expertise in Payroll.
A successful candidate thrives in a high growth and high energy company.
In this role you can expect to:
- Perform daily payroll department operations, including maintaining employee documents and corresponding with payroll providers (US and non-US)
- Process US and Canada through ADP Workforce Now Payroll System
- Manage workflow to ensure all payroll transactions are processed timely and accurately
- Partner with the Accounting team to post payroll journal entries
- Assist with reconciliation questions of payroll transmission to the general ledger
- Process manual checks
- Understand proper taxation of fringe benefits
- Strong knowledge of Federal, State and local payroll withholdings
- Process sales commissions and other supplemental payments
- Partner with HR on projects and day to day operations
- Maintain ADP Time & Attendance
- Coordinate Leave of Absence payments with third party vendor
- Respond to employees and internal teams regarding payroll inquiries, including and not limited to LOAs, 401k issues, garnishments, employment verifications, pay details, vacation accruals, ESPP and tax withholdings.
- Process equity transactions including RSU releases, ESPP contributions, ISO exercises, and non-qualified stock options.
Learning Opportunities:
- We are expanding to other countries! With the help of Advisors, this role will have opportunities to set up payroll in other countries.
- Software implementations and automations
- Opportunity to evaluate and make recommendations to automate manual processes
You may be a good fit for our team if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business related concentration
- 5+ years of processing multi-state payroll
- Very high attention to detail
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, and prioritize competing workloads
- Excellent written, and verbal communication skills
- Able to respond to payroll inquiries with professionalism, kindness and empathy.
- Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Basic accounting knowledge
- Experience with processing Equity/Stock transactions with a public company
- Experience processing Canada and/or Costa Rica payroll
- Other international payroll experience is a plus
- Systems Experience:
- Experience in ADP preferred
- ADP Workforce Now, ADP Reporting and GL Interface a plus
- Workday Experience a plus
- Intermediate experience in MS Office Suite, and G Suite
- NetSuite a plus
- Experience in ADP preferred
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The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is:$110,500—$130,000 USDThe base pay range for this role in Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, New York (excluding NYC), or California (excluding SF Bay Area) is:$101,200—$119,100 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro) and Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$92,100—$108,300 USD