Senior Payroll Analyst

Summary

Join Sword Health, a Forbes Best Startup Employer, as a Payroll Specialist and play a crucial role in managing payroll operations for our US-based employees. You will be responsible for processing payroll, ensuring tax compliance, developing and implementing payroll procedures, and acting as a point of contact for payroll-related inquiries. This position requires a deep understanding of payroll functions, strong analytical skills, and experience in a fast-growing organization. You will collaborate with various teams, including HR and Finance, to ensure accurate and efficient payroll processing. Sword Health offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, flexible working hours, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• University degree in finance or economics
• 3+ years experience in Payroll function ideally running it yourself
• A structural and logical approach to solving problems
• Strong analytical skills and a hands on attitude
• Experience within a fast growing organization
• Great motivation and focus on delivery
• Desire to handle accounting and reconciliations related to payroll
• Experience dealing with states to resolve tax notices

Responsibilities

• Administer and analyze full scope payroll processing including review of information to be entered, input of payroll transactions, auditing of earnings, taxes, and deductions and providing payroll reporting to Finance and other colleagues regarding payroll reporting
• Lead federal, state and local tax compliance including performing routine tax reconciliations and processing filings; verifying all regulatory filings produced by vendors such as W-2s and 941s are accurate, and resolve any tax discrepancies or questions
• Stay updated on tax regulations to ensure compliance including researching new/changing regulations as it relates to payroll and working with internal partners and payroll vendors to handle regulations in the systems
• Participate in the development and implementation of procedures/processes and reports related to payroll operations. Recommend enhancements to processes and programs to help automate and streamline tasks
• Oversee payroll for our affiliate companies including auditing and compliance
• Respond to reporting requests and audit materials as required
• Act as point of contact for employees, business partners and affiliates for payroll related questions
• Work directly with various states on registering Sword’s different entities and resolving tax notices
• Implement business processes associated with HR information management
• Collaborate with fellow HR team members as well as finance to ensure accurate, timely and efficient processing of HR transactions
• Discover efficiencies impacting HR data management and implement required process improvements
• Partner with Information Technology, or consultants to identify and resolve any technical issues with the payroll system
• Oversee functional testing for all HR systems fixes, maintenance and upgrades
• Serve as the HR data expert

Preferred Qualifications

Startup experience is preferred, ideally with international aspects

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Financial advisory services
• Supplemental Insurance Benefits (Accident, Hospital and Critical Illness)
• Health Savings Account
• Equity shares
• Discretionary PTO plan
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote-first company
• Paid company holidays
• Free digital therapist for you and your family