Job Description

Our Values THE GOLDEN RULE Whether we're dealing with colleagues or customers, we follow The Golden Rule, treating others the way we want to be treated. It's a simple rule, but it's also significant: we don't prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity. CALM FOCUS We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. So it's important that we focus on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next. If something is out of scope, we say "No." If something feels rushed, we pump the brakes. This calm focus helps us create solutions our customers love. ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers' experience holistically, and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams. This approach extends to cooperation among our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title — and produces a more integrated homebuying experience. About the opportunity We are looking for a Payroll Support Associate to process multi-state payroll operations for Homeward. The ideal candidate for this position is experienced working with People Operations and Finance team members. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have strong quantitative, analysis, and time-management skills, and a proven ability to investigate variances, ideate solutions to problems, and find efficiencies in processes. This position will work most frequently with the Experienced Payroll Accountant and Payroll and Benefits Manager, and with exposure to the Assistant Controller, as well as other accounting and HR team members. This position will work most frequently within excel/google sheets, Paylocity (payroll system), and within gmail and slack. In this role you will:

• Onboard new employees into payroll and benefits with all applicable new-hire data.
• Run day-to-day payroll processes with assistance and direction from the Payroll Supervisor.
• Process and review national and international payroll for exempt and non exempt employees, ensuring the timely and accurate processing of payroll via data imports into our Payroll System, and manual entry if/when necessary.
• Perform Payroll reconciliations including but not limited to:
  • reconciling between payroll submissions to final payout data,
  • reconciling employee names, titles, departments, and supervisors between data submissions and the payroll system
• Proactively investigate and understand any variances or oddities in payroll data as identified.
• Communicate timely with employees throughout the Company regarding any payroll questions or requests.
• Assist with ensuring compliance with ACA, HIPAA, FMLA, PDL, CFRA, ADA, ERISA, IRS, DOL, COBRA.
• Enhance this function of the business by maintaining strong internal controls.
• Assist with labor law compliance, employee payroll, time tracking and benefits education.

What you'll bring:

• 2+ years of experience in the payroll space.
• Intermediate or higher experience in excel or google sheets.
• Experience in fast-paced environments, startup experience is a plus!
• Federal and State tax laws knowledge.
• Knowledge of payroll processes: garnishments, benefit deductions, taxes, FMLA experience, Work Comp experience, LOA experience,
• Knowledge of multi-state laws.
• Experience processing payroll and benefits for both exempt and non exempt employees.
• Experience assisting with labor law compliance is a plus.
• Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and security of sensitive information.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong ability in task-tracking and time-management.
• Desire to improve processes through ideation, automation, organization, etc.

About Homeward Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it's stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you're buying and selling at the same time. So we're redesigning the home-buying experience. We're a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners' clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us. Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer's home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell. We've raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.