Do words like 'reconciliation', 'timesheets', 'compliance', and 'benefits enrollment' excite you? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment and want your work to support meaningful growth? We'd love to hear from you! Under the direction of the HR Operations Manager, the Sr. Payroll and Benefits Specialist is responsible for the administration and maintenance of activities relating to company payroll, benefits, and leave of absences. As our payroll and benefits superstar, you would thrive on delivering results in a dynamic environment. This position plays a key role in maintaining data integrity, running audits and reports, and serving as a reliable resource for employee questions.

Candidates must reside in the Atlanta area to be considered for this role.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions

Owns end-to-end biweekly payroll process with accuracy and timeliness (50%)

• Processes multi-state payroll on a bi-weekly basis for hourly and salary employees using UKG Ready.
• Reviews and reconciles payroll registers prior to submission.
• Responsible for off-cycle payrolls, adjustments, and corrections as needed.
• Serves as primary contact for payroll tax agencies and third-party tax vendors.
• Administers and responds to garnishment notices and medical support withholding notices.
• Maintains compliance with FLSA, state and federal laws.
• Manages records such as timekeeping, salary history, and payroll data.
• Audits changes related to pay, position, and supervisor changes and ensures accurate historical data is recorded.
• Provides quarterly and adhoc payroll and workers’ compensation data to the Finance department.
• Provides employee support with all payroll related questions.
• Reconcile payroll to the general ledger and support month-end and year-end processes.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy.

Administers benefits programs (40%)

• Supports employee fringe benefits programs by coordinating enrollment, plan changes, and terminations with various benefits carriers.
• Ensures accuracy of benefits enrollments in UKG Ready.
• Assists in the open enrollment process.
• Submits monthly bills to carriers and works with A/R to identify and correct discrepancies found on monthly benefits reconciliations.
• Assists with the administration of the company’s 401(k), processes changes related to payroll and responds to requests from the 401(k) provider.
• Assists in termination paperwork associated with conversion/portability of life insurance.
• Administers the tuition reimbursement program and wellness program and provides input for applicable budget annually.
• Provides employee support with all benefit related questions.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy.

Processes and administers all leave of absence requests and disability paperwork: medical, personal, STD, LTD, and FMLA (10%)

• Effectively interprets FMLA and ADA implications as they relate to leaves of absences/disabilities.
• Manages leave of absence requests for employees dispersed across various states and maintains compliance and regulatory practices for various states.
• Responds to and files necessary paperwork to ensure proper administration of Short- and Long-Term Disability payments.

Key Skills and Experience Needed to Be Successful

Required:

• 5+ years of experience processing multi-state payroll and benefits administration
• Strong knowledge of payroll regulations, tax compliance, and wage & hour laws
• High level of accuracy, confidentiality, attention to detail, follow through and professional judgement
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally

Preferred:

• Fundamental Payroll Certification (FCP)
• Experience with UKG Ready
• Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, pivot tables)

Characteristics Needed to be Successful

• We are looking for someone with a passion for service. You don’t have to be the loudest voice in the room, but you do have to love coming to work every day and you must have an authentic pride in your work.
• You must be a resourceful self-starter. If you wait to be told to do something before you do it, this isn’t the place for you.
• We need someone who is adaptable. The pace of change in our business is rapid. We create plans, but we’re always ready to shift as needed to accomplish our goals.
• You must be an energetic, people-oriented person for our highly collaborative organization. The ability to establish and retain trust across the organization will be imperative.

We value potential and transferrable skills. If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still love to hear from you and learn more about you and your experience.

About Us

good2grow® is a children’s beverage company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Our mission is to use fun to help kids consume healthier products. And our commitment to this mission has made us a high-growth innovative beverage company, with a large, diverse, and ever-growing set of retail partners. We create better-for-you drinks that give both parents and kids a smile by combining great taste with tons of fun. We partner with some of the biggest names in entertainment including Disney, Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, Hasbro and so many more to top our products with 100s of all of their favorite characters. Our line of products include juices, flavored waters and milks, so there’s something to make everybody smile.

Why join us?

good2grow® offers a competitive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with company match, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Short and Long Term Disability (along with salary continuation), a robust Parental Leave Policy, Life Insurance, 12 Paid Holidays, plus a generous Paid Time Off package. Through our community involvement and employee engagement initiatives, you will see that we value our employees’ experience and the community around us. At good2grow®, you will be consistently challenged, and your opportunities will only be limited by your ambition!

Our Culture

Not only are our products fun, so is our organization! We are visionaries with a growth mindset, built on trust, integrity, and collaboration. Our culture is unmatched, described by our employees as transparent, flexible, inclusive, and team oriented. Other words we’ve heard used to describe us are empowering, nurturing, relaxed, and high performing. Our goal is for every employee to feel empowered, valued, and part of the good2grow family. Our organization is dedicated to leveraging technology to make our work more efficient and to keep our remote workforce connected. We place value on not only maintaining work-life balance, but also enhancing it by encouraging a culture that understands the importance of each individual’s unique circumstances. We are an industrious organization with a penchant for fun!