Payroll and Benefits Specialist
full-time•United States
About this role
<h3><strong>Job Details</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Role Type:</strong> Full-Time</p>
<p><strong>Location:</strong> Fully remote (based anywhere in the United States)</p>
<p><strong>Reports to</strong>:<strong> </strong>Financial Accountant</p>
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<p><strong>About this role</strong></p>
<p>Parallel is seeking a full-time payroll and benefits specialist. In this role, you’ll be supporting the Finance and People Teams by driving operational aspects such as payroll and benefits administration, compliance support, and managing the HR inbox. </p>
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<p>This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to:</p>
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<li>Make an impact: you are motivated by a mission-driven culture</li>
<li>Join a fast-growing startup: you love to solve ambiguous problems that don’t have a clear solution</li>
<li>Touch all aspects of HR: you want to grow your experience and own some functionalities</li>
<li>Be part of a passionate, collaborative culture: you want to work hands-on with your team and cross-functional partners to quickly find solutions and take action</li>
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<p><strong>What you’ll do: </strong></p>
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<li>Own benefits administration: manage Employee Navigator, audit monthly statements, align our benefits platform with our HRIS data, own system integrations, and support the VP of People with Open Enrollment </li>
<li>Act as payroll administrator: run talent and staff payrolls, own payroll submissions, manage employment tax applications, update time off accruals, send payroll reports to our 401k vendor, and support the accounting team with payroll reconciliation and variance investigation</li>
<li>Payroll tax compliance and liability management: Stay on top of payroll tax liabilities and filings at the federal, state, and local levels; ensure payroll taxes are paid timely and filings are submitted accurately to avoid notices, penalties, or delinquency issues; proactively address and resolve any tax notices or discrepancies with agencies and payroll providers</li>
<li>Audit HSA withdrawals to ensure they match contributions</li>
<li>Track and pay all state taxes that are not auto-paid by our HRIS</li>
<li>Partner with our benefits broker and VP of People to resolve discrepancies and support issues</li>
<li>Equity administration support</li>
<li>Be the first point of contact for employees in need of payroll and benefits support, answer Zendesk tickets on those subjects and escalate questions appropriately, resolve issues in a friendly and timely manner</li>
<li>Manage special projects: use your excel skills to build out ad hoc projects encompassing benefits, annual audits, employment taxes, and PTO</li>
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<p><strong>What you need: </strong></p>
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<li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent in experience, preferably in accounting or HR Strong Excel skills</li>
<li>2 years of payroll and benefits experience</li>
<li>Strong attention to detail</li>
<li>Proactive about seeking answers and pitching solutions</li>
<li>Ability to self-direct and prioritize tasks on a daily basis</li>
<li>Comfortable dialoging with employees and vendors via email and phone</li>
<li>Excited to work in a startup environment</li>
<li>Experience with Rippling would be an asset</li>
</ul><div class="content-conclusion"><h3><strong>👋 About Us</strong></h3>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.parallellearning.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parallel</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the first tech-forward provider of care for learning and thinking differences across the United States. We believe learning differences are parallel ways of thinking that should be celebrated! Our mission is to provide students with the resources and encouragement to succeed in the classroom and beyond. To us, this means helping them build confidence in their unique strengths and create strategies to work around their challenges. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parallel simplifies the process of getting support for learning differences by consolidating providers and resources on a single platform. We connect students with qualified professionals while significantly reducing waiting times, costs, and confusion. We provide a variety of services, including: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Psychological Assessment & Therapy</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Counseling</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speech-Language Therapy</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Special Education</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And more!</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Want to know what it's like working here? Check out our <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Parallel-NY-EI_IE4730483.11,22.htm" target="_blank">Glassdoor</a></span> reviews!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em data-stringify-type="italic">Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion</em></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em data-stringify-type="italic">At Parallel, we believe in celebrating differences. This belief extends from schools into our workplace and through the ways we work together toward our mission. We are committed to fostering a diverse, accessible environment that represents many different cultures, backgrounds, viewpoints, and abilities by championing diversity, equity and inclusion.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em data-stringify-type="italic">This is why we are committed to having and fostering a diverse workforce, including those from historically marginalized groups, and are committed to a work environment where employees’ strengths are championed, differences are celebrated, and no one is discriminated against based on age, race, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em data-stringify-type="italic">We are a proud equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization in order to build the foundation for different learners and thinkers to thrive.</em></span></p>
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What you'll do
- The Payroll and Benefits Specialist will manage payroll and benefits administration, ensuring compliance and supporting the HR team. This includes running payroll, managing tax liabilities, and acting as the first point of contact for employee inquiries.
About Parallel
Humans across the globe and of all walks of life want to live at their personal best, and are seeking more natural alternatives to feeling their best and getting the most out of life. Today, they are discovering the answer through natural cannabinoid products. At the same time, science and technology are unlocking the future potential of cannabinoids. We believe that cannabinoids, when used responsibly, have the power to enhance the full spectrum of well-being and to help us live healthier and happier lives. Parallel is improving the well-being of our consumers today through our proprietary, innovative brands, while planting seeds for the future through our robust innovation and high bar for business standards.
We meet our consumers’ needs wherever they are on their path to improve their health and happiness because our brands cover the full spectrum of well-being. We are beside them whether they need recovery, relief, rest, or even revelry.
To live their physical, mental and emotional best, they have to live intentionally. When they do so, they seek the best products and intertwine them in their life. We are committed to helping our consumers follow their own path to living intentionally and being their best every day through our portfolio of brands and products. Across our diverse portfolio of trusted and proprietary brands, we provide innovative cannabinoid products designed to work in parallel to multi-faceted nature of everyday human well-being with the highest degree of uncompromising quality, safety, consistency and efficacy.
Parallel Promise: Inspired by Nature, Optimized by Science
We will improve our consumers well-being and quality of life through our natural cannabinoid products today, while at the same time we will continue to innovate through science, technology and R&D to bring them unparalleled products that will transform how they live their best tomorrow.
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As a Payroll and Benefits Specialist at Parallel, you will: the Payroll and Benefits Specialist will manage payroll and benefits administration, ensuring compliance and supporting the HR team. This includes running payroll, managing tax liabilities, and acting as the first point of contact for employee inquiries..
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