Payroll Specialist

Summary

Join Next Level Strategies as a Part-Time Payroll Specialist! Manage payroll for diverse clients, utilizing your expertise across multiple platforms. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of payroll experience, advanced Excel skills, and exceptional communication. You'll ensure accurate and timely payroll processing, handle employee inquiries, and interact with benefit providers. The position offers a flexible schedule (20-25 hours/week), primarily remote work, and a competitive hourly rate ($50-$65). Benefits include health, dental, vision, 401k, vacation, and sick pay.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a Payroll position
• Advanced proficiency in Excel
• Professionalism
• Keen eye for detail and organization
• Ability to prioritize workload
• Phenomenal communication skills (verbal and written)
• Comfortable with California wage and hour compliance
• Proactive approach and hyper awareness of responsibility to client commitments
• Strong commitment to excellence, understanding the importance of accurate and timely payrolls

Responsibilities

• Manage diverse tasks for a variety of clients
• Manage employee timekeeping records with precision
• Data reconciliation, reporting, and processing using Excel
• Serve as a trusted resource for our client workforce, handling sensitive information with care and accuracy
• Benefit and 401k Reporting
• Ownership of client deliverables
• Responding to workforce questions
• Interacting with 401k and benefit providers
• Complete payroll deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in providing payroll solutions for multiple companies
• Experience with Paychex, Paylocity, Gusto, Rippling (emphasis on Rippling and Paylocity)
• Experience with Slack, Asana, Google Suite, MS Office, Ease (Mineral)

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• Vacation pay
• Sick pay
• Flexible schedule (20-25 hours/week, Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm PST, morning availability required)
• Primarily remote work with potential for on-site (Bay Area, CA)