Payroll & Benefits Specialist

The Role

The Payroll & Benefits Specialist administers the activities relating to the company payroll, benefits processing including developing, implementing, and monitoring (e.g., performing internal audit and control procedures to ensure that all wages and taxes are accurate). The individual will be the company’s subject matter expert with all semi-monthly payrolls, and benefits administration.

• Process payrolls for hourly, salaried, and temporary employees; including reviewing, administering regulatory requirements, and other adjustments to pay as necessary.
• Implement and maintain payroll best practices to improve efficiency and consult with People and Culture to improve payroll and benefits processes.
• Responsible for payroll onboarding and off-boarding, including training employees on ADP set up, inputting new hires to ADP, off-boarding departing FTEs, and acting as primary contact for tax elections questions.
• Maintain employee records in payroll/benefits systems.
• Produce scheduled and ad-hoc reports pertaining to payroll and human resources requirements.

• Administer all employee benefit programs including enrollments, terminations, and some COBRA administration.
• Reports results of audits to ensure all enrollments are accurate and that dependent information is correct for each employee and assists with quarterly and year end audits for year-end processing (payroll, 401k, benefits).
• Potential to administer equity plan.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• Prior payroll and benefits experience required.
• ADP experience preferred.
• Prior equity plan administration preferred.

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Generate Biomedicines enforces a mandatory vaccination policy for COVID-19. All employees must be fully vaccinated and have received a booster. The policy is to safeguard the health of employees, their families, and the community. The company will make exceptions if required by applicable law and will consider requests for an exemption due to medical reasons, sincerely held religious beliefs, or other recognized exemptions.