Payroll Support Associate

We are looking for a Payroll Support Associate to process multistate payroll operations for Homeward. The ideal candidate for this position is experienced working with people ops and finance team members. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have strong quantitative, analysis, and timemanagement skills, and a proven ability to investigate variances, ideate solutions to problems, and find efficiencies in processes.

This position will report to our payroll and benefits manager and work closely with the people operations, assistant controller, and other leaders throughout the organization. This position will work most frequently within ExcelGoogle Sheets, Paylocity (payroll system), and within Gmail and Slack. A high level of attention to detail and urgency is required.

In This Role, You Will:

• Onboard new employees into payroll and benefits with all applicable newhire data (this includes all I9 verification meetings).
• Run daytoday payroll processes.
• Process and review national and international payroll for exempt and nonexempt employees, ensuring the timely and accurate processing of payroll via data imports into our payroll system, and manual entry ifwhen necessary.
• Perform Payroll reconciliations, including but not limited to:
• • Payroll submissions to final payout data,
  • Employee names, titles, departments, and supervisors between the data submissions and Paylocity
  • • Proactively investigate and understand any variances or oddities in payroll data as identified.
    • Proactively audit the HRIS (Paylocity) to ensure consistency and accuracy at all times.
    • Timely communication with U.S. based, employees throughout the company regarding any payroll questions or requests.
    • Process monthlysemimonthly payroll for contractors
    • Complete State tax registrations
    • Respond to Unemployment claim requests
    • Assist with ensuring compliance with ACA, HIPAA, FMLA, PDL, CFRA, ADA, ERISA, IRS, DOL, and COBRA.
    • Enhance this function of the business by maintaining strong internal controls.
    • Assist with labor law compliance, employee payroll, time tracking, and benefits education.

    • What You’ll Bring:

      • 34 years of experience in the payroll space.
      • Paylocity experience required.
      • Intermediate or higher experience in ExcelGoogle Sheets.
      • Experience in a fastpaced startup is a plus!
      • Knowledge of payroll processes: garnishments, benefit deductions, taxes, FMLA experience, Work Comp experience, LOA experience,
      • Knowledge of federal, multistate payrollbenefits, and tax laws
      • Experience working with state agencies to troubleshoot tax registration issues
      • Experience processing payroll and benefits for both exempt and nonexempt employees.
      • Experience assisting with labor law compliance is a plus.
      • Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and security of sensitive information.
      • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
      • Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
      • Attention to detail and accuracy.
      • Strong ability in tasktracking and timemanagement.

      • ValueDriven Employee Experience

        THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

        CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fastpaced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.

        ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.