Corporate Human Resources & Accounting Business Partner

• Location 9520 10th Avenue South,Suite 150,Seattle, WA, 98108,United States
• Base Pay $90,000.00 - $ / Year
• Job Category Human Resource, Accounting
• Employee Type Exempt - Full Time
• Required Degree 4 Year Degree
• Manage Others No

Position: Corporate Human Resources & Accounting Business Partner

Company: Columbia Safety Services, LLC

Location: Seattle, WA — in-office during training, then hybrid with up to two days per week remote

Reports To: Controller

Bargaining Unit Status: Non-union

Incentive Eligibility: Not commission or incentive eligible; see Compensation

Travel: Minimal — occasional travel to branch offices

Columbia Safety Services is the corporate support team for a growing group of fire and life safety businesses across the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West:

• Columbia Fire, LLC — Seattle, WA
• Valley Fire Control, LLC — Albany and Newport, OR + Spokane, WA
• FFF Protection — Greater Boise, with an office in Nampa,

Our companies design, install, inspect, and service fire sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems, suppression systems, portable extinguishers, and the life safety equipment that protects people and property. Columbia Fire has served the Seattle market since 2005. We are a multi-state regional company growing both organically and through acquisition, and we are building efficient, scalable financial and people operations as we expand.

Our core values guide how we operate:
Customer First, Grit, Effective Communication, Own the Outcome, Take Pride in the Work, and Do the Right Thing.

We now run payroll, benefits, onboarding, and accounting for multiple companies across three states, and both functions sit with a small corporate team that is stretched thin. Certified payroll filings, 401(k) uploads, benefit enrollments, bank reconciliations, sales tax returns, and month-end close all land on the same few desks.

That does not hold as we keep acquiring companies. Every acquisition adds employees, a payroll register, a benefits population, a set of business licenses, and another general ledger to reconcile.

This seat exists to take real ownership of both halves — the people side and the accounting side — so the corporate team can operate ahead of the business instead of catching up to it.

Roughly half of this job is human resources administration and roughly half is corporate accounting. You will be the person an employee comes to with a benefits question, and the person reconciling the bank in Acumatica.

That combination is unusual, and it is deliberate. In a multi-entity company our size the two functions touch constantly — payroll journal entries, benefit accruals, workers’ compensation audits, certified payroll. Someone who understands both does the work better than two people who each understand one.

You will report to the Controller, work closely with the accounting team, and have real influence over how these processes get built as we scale.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for employees on HR policies, procedures, and employment-related questions
• Coordinate full-cycle onboarding, including new hire paperwork, orientation, system setup, and benefits enrollment
• Manage 401(k) enrollments and weekly contribution uploads
• Coordinate offboarding, including exit interviews, final documentation, and system access removal
• Maintain employee personnel files and HRIS records with accuracy, completeness, and confidentiality
• Administer employee benefit programs — new enrollments, qualifying life events, annual open enrollment, and coordination with providers
• Provide backup support for payroll processing, reviewing employee changes, deductions, benefit elections, PTO balances, and payroll audits
• Assist with weekly certified payroll filings
• Coordinate the annual performance review process with managers and maintain documentation
• Support recruiting with job postings, applicant screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communication
• Maintain recruiting platforms and the Applicant Tracking System
• Track employee certifications, licenses, required…