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Payroll & Benefits Specialist

Hourly Range: $22.35 - $27.93
Exact compensation may vary based on skill, experience and location.

Why SAFE?

SAFE offers so much more than just full medical, vision, dental, 401k matching, HSA, and FSA! Learn more about how we support our workforce!

Professional Development Opportunities: Offering training programs, workshops, and mentorship.
Recognition and Appreciation: Regularly acknowledging employee achievements and contributions.
Flexible Work Arrangements: Providing options for remote work and flexible scheduling.
Positive Company Culture: Fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and supportive work environment.
Career Growth: Clear paths for career advancement and internal promotions.
Work-Life Balance: Encouraging a healthy balance between professional and personal life.
Employee Empowerment: Allowing employees to make decisions and have autonomy in their roles.
Space of Belonging: ERGs, YOUnity Council and a focus around diversity, equity inclusion and belonging.
Wellness Programs: Promoting physical and mental health through wellness initiatives and resources.
Strong Leadership: Having leaders who inspire, support, and guide their teams effectively.
Sense of Purpose: Creating a sense of mission and aligning company goals with employees' personal values.

POSITION PURPOSE

Responsible for accurate and timely processing of biweekly payroll, ensuring the company is in compliance with federal and state laws. Responsible for the administration of employee benefits. Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND BASIC DUTIES

Responsible for accurate and timely data entry and maintenance of active, new, rehired, and terminated employee profiles, including benefit records.
Process biweekly payroll within the payroll system, including final checks, as needed.
Assist with the administration and implementation in payroll records of salary changes, added compensations, deductions, bonuses, PTO payouts, and benefits for employees.
Review and confirm time entry for all employees.
Analyze payroll issues, recommending corrective action.
Assist with payroll reconciliations, transactions, reporting, stop payments, and other operations.
Assist with payroll, benefit, and timesheet audit activities.
Provide exceptional service to employees with questions or needs regarding payroll, benefits, policies, etc.
Process password resets and assist employees with the use of payroll and timekeeping applications.
Assist other team members with assigned responsibilities, as needed.
Manage benefits, including determining eligibility, providing enrollment information to employees, adding and deleting employees with carriers, and entering benefits information into payroll records.
Write and update procedures, as needed.
Assist with annual benefit carrier renewals.
Assist with COBRA Eligibility.
Assist with 401(k) administration and audit.
Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Certification:

Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university; or one to two years of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Knowledge:

Knowledge of HRIS and timekeeping systems (UltiPro “UKG” and Kronos preferred). Knowledge of COBRA process. Knowledge of current payroll and laws.

Experience Required:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills/Abilities:

Ability to complete calculations and develop formulas.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Ability to communicate well with employees and benefit plan carrier representatives.
Ability to work autonomously and effectively manage the workload independently, demonstrating strong initiative and decision-making skills.

WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL DEMANDS SUMMARY

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, listening skills, and empathy).
Expert ability to build relationships with other leaders, business partners, and stakeholders.
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence.
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS AND REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

INTENT AND FUNCTION OF JOB DESCRIPTIONS

This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.

Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.

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