Payroll Specialist I

Summary

Join FreedomCare, a leading home care agency, as a Payroll Specialist I and make a positive impact! This remote role, with potential office visits, involves processing payroll for caregivers, acting as the main point of contact for payroll inquiries, and ensuring accurate and timely processing of all payroll-related tasks. You will leverage best practices, process new hires and pay changes, resolve discrepancies, and run reports. Collaboration with the finance team and occasional interaction with accounts payable are also part of the role. FreedomCare offers competitive compensation, medical benefits, retirement plans, wellness programs, and professional development opportunities. The ideal candidate possesses a process-driven mindset, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and attention to detail.

Requirements

• A process and data driven mindset that has experience with analyzing numbers
• An outside of the box thinker with strong problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy for data entry
• Strong time management and prioritization skills

Responsibilities

• Leverage best practices to process payroll for Caregivers FreedomCare employees by established deadlines
• Accurately process new Caregivers, pay rate changes and changes to employee statuses in a timely manner; process the stopping and reissuing of checks
• Act as the main point of contact for payroll related inquiries such as pay, deductions, etc.; research and correct any payroll discrepancies
• Process billing as at relates to payroll; run and maintain weekly payroll reports to verify data
• Work closely with the Finance team and occasionally interface with A/P
• Work on special projects or other related tasks as assigned such as payroll adjustments, compliance, direct deposits, taxes, 401K, bonuses, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a finance or accounting
• Experience in a payroll position in the past
• Excel experience, specifically V-lookups and functions

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Medical benefits
• Retirement plans
• Wellness programs
• Ongoing learning opportunities to grow your career