Respect Together
Position Summary
The Payroll & Benefits Specialist manages employee compensation and benefits programs. This position administers payroll, leave time, and benefits and ensures that employee payroll and benefits comply with state and federal laws and regulations.
Values Statement
Respect Together understands sexual violence as a social justice issue and works to prevent and respond to sexual harassment, abuse, and assault within this framework. We are committed to nurturing a workplace that is affirming, inclusive, and respectful of all people and the ways in which they identify across race, class, ability, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other characteristics.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Payroll & Benefits
- Accurately process biweekly payroll (employee database account maintenance/updates for all withholdings, taxes, deductions, etc.) in a timely and confidential manner.
- Maintain electronic and hard copy personnel files including, but not limited to, regulatory reporting requests, verifications of employment, and unemployment claim inquiries.
- Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
- Train employees on organizations’ timekeeping systems.
- Review time sheets, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
- Record employee information, such as transfers, and resignations to maintain and update payroll records.
- Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, tax issues, and benefit plans.
- Administer employee leave policies and programs including need for personal and medical leaves in compliance with appropriate policies and regulations.
- Oversee and administer benefit programs including, but not limited to working with insurance brokers to get quotes, benefit enrollment paperwork, review of invoices to insure they are accurate.
- COBRA paperwork, invoicing, tracking.
- 403(b) Pension Plan – track employee contributions, make timely payments, complete annual compliance report, work with third parties for rollovers, distributions, etc.
- Process/track all Disability insurance claims.
- Administer FMLA, ADA accommodations, short- and long-term disability, and other leave.
- Collect information and documentation from employees on an ongoing basis including, but not limited to, emergency contact information and change of name or address.
Onboarding / Offboarding
- Assist with initiating background checks.
- Initiate the Hiring letter and other new hire welcome documents.
- Responsible for completing new hire paperwork.
- Responsible for preparing introductory period completion letter.
- Provide current and prospective employees with information about personnel policies related to employment status, salaries, employee benefits, and leave time.
- Responsible for completing termination paperwork.
Legal
- Respond to unemployment filings.
- File workers compensation claims.
- Prepare/send employees various required annual notices i.e. Annual Employee Benefits Summary, HIPPA notice, Medicare notice, pension annual report, pension fee disclosure notice, etc.
- Maintain compliance with federal, state, and local employment/benefit laws and regulations, and recommended best practices.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) (or equivalent payroll experience) in Accounting, Business, Human Resources, or a related field, preferred; three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred. Computer skills necessary include excel.
Salary Range
$50,000-$55,000
To Apply
PCAR offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply on our website by December 8, 2023. A complete job description is also available on our website.
Who We Are
Founded in 1975, Respect Together unites all elements of our work under one name with a continued commitment to our long-standing mission of preventing and ending sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. Respect Together’s main divisions are the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and The Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect (PCAR). Collectively, we are working together to create a culture in the United States – and beyond – that values and upholds all people being treated with respect and free from all forms of sexual violence and oppression.
NSVRC:
- Identifies, develops, and disseminates resources regarding all aspects of sexual violence prevention and intervention.
- NSVRC is the leading nonprofit in providing information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence.
- Translates research and trends into best practices that help individuals, communities and service providers achieve real and lasting change.
- Works with the media to promote informed reporting.
PCAR:
- Partners with a network of rape crisis programs to bring help, hope, and healing around issues of sexual violence to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Assures that communities have access to quality victim services and prevention education by providing funding, training, materials, and assistance to a network of rape crisis centers that serve all of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.
- Provides resources and training on sexual assault-related issues to professionals across PA.
- Promotes public policies that provide protections and services to victims of sexual violence, hold offenders accountable, enhances community safety, and works with media to increase public awareness, access to accurate information, and ethical reporting practices.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Respect Together provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.