Payroll Specialist responsible for payroll duties and client consultations in construction industry. Managing compliance with payroll tax and social security regulations while fostering team collaboration.
About the role
- Associate role managing payroll, compliance, and HR functions for diverse clients at Sandbox consulting. Collaborating across a dynamic team to enhance employee experience and ensure regulatory adherence.
Responsibilities
- Own and process all Sandbox client payrolls, ensuring accurate, timely runs across multiple states.
- Serve as the internal payroll, compliance, and tax administration subject-matter expert.
- Ensure clients remain compliant with state registrations, employment laws, tax filings, year-end reporting, and workers’ comp audits.
- Handle payroll-related tax admin, including state/local registrations, notices, follow-ups, quarterly filings coordination, and issue resolution.
- Support benefits administration, including enrollments, life-change events, plan comparisons, employee questions, and coordinating with brokers.
- Help clients build and maintain compensation programs, including organizing pay bands and supporting comp review cycles.
- Maintain up-to-date policies, handbooks, compliance documentation, and support client HR audits.
- Provide support for performance management cycles, including scheduling, templates, feedback tracking, and documentation.
- Deliver a consistent, organized onboarding and offboarding experience.
- Act as the team’s HRIS specialist, maintaining and optimizing systems, ensuring workflows function smoothly.
Requirements
- 2-4 years of demonstrated HR experience (benefits, compliance, payroll, performance, or employee relations).
- Hands-on payroll processing experience, ideally across multiple states.
- Understand or can quickly learn state compliance, tax administration, and multi-state employment requirements.
- Experience administering benefits, including open enrollment, changes, and vendor/broker coordination.
- HRIS experience and are comfortable deepening system expertise (Gusto is a bonus).
- Can manage structured, high-volume recurring workflows with strong task and deadline discipline.
- Can conduct structured conversations, gather information clearly, and translate it into clean, accurate documentation or draft reports.
- Thrive in structure, systems, and process, and bring a detail-oriented, low-error approach to recurring work.
- Communicate clearly and proactively—especially around deadlines, payroll cycles, and compliance requirements.
- Comfortable acting as the specialist for payroll and compliance while supporting broader People Ops activities.
- Organized, responsive, and able to manage multiple clients or competing priorities without letting anything slip.
- Strong judgment, think critically, and work independently while knowing when to ask for help.
- Bring a learner mindset, willing to deepen your skills across payroll, compliance, benefits, and systems - even when the work isn’t yet "perfect."
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits with employer contribution.
- Family-friendly, flexible work schedule with generous PTO and mental wellness days.
- Employer-matched 401K.
- Ongoing professional development and networking opportunities.
- Monthly team events.
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