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

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