Payroll & HR Operations Specialist

Payroll & HR Operations Specialist — Remote (Texas or Virginia preferred)

Houston, TX — remote enabled

Part-time, W-2

$26–$38 per hour

You will be the dependable voice behind accurate, on-time payroll for a portfolio of client companies.

We run HR and payroll for companies of 10 to 499 employees that do not have an HR department of their own. You would own the payroll and operations side for a portfolio of them, working alongside an HR generalist and a compliance specialist. You are not one person doing everything — that is the point of how we are built.

We have been at this since 2009. We started in recruitment and moved into HR because our clients kept needing help keeping the people we found them. Two levels, one posting. We are hiring at either level, depending on who we meet:
Payroll Specialist — $26 to $32 an hour. Two or more years running full-cycle payroll, with multi-state exposure. Senior Payroll & HR Operations Specialist — $32 to $38 an hour. Five or more years, including registering employers in new states from scratch, working agency notices, and making classification calls you can defend. Tell us which one you are and we will be straight with you about where you land.

Run payroll end to end: processing, tax filing and deposits, direct deposit, pay stubs

Handle multi-state registration and withholding as clients add employees in new states

Manage garnishments, levies and support orders

Own quarterly and year-end filings, W-2s and 1099sRun onboarding and offboarding: I-9, E-Verify, new-hire reporting, benefits enrollment

Set up and administer each client's HR system and keep the data clean enough to trust

Answer client questions directly. Most of your day is client contact, not a ticket queue.

You like getting it exactly right, and you like people. Payroll is precise work, but precision is only half the job. The person who runs payroll is usually the first person a business owner calls, and how you answer matters as much as whether the number is correct. Our clients are owners and office managers who have never had HR support before.

They ask basic questions. They deserve a straight answer without being made to feel behind.

Two or more years running payroll for the Specialist level, five or more for the Senior level — ideally across more than one company or entity. Multi-state payroll experience, or a real appetite for learning it quickly. Solid on worker classification — exempt versus non-exempt, employee versus contractor — and honest about where you would want a second opinion. Clear on the phone and clear in writing.

You will be the voice of this company to several clients anized enough to carry a portfolio without anyone chasing you.

certified payroll and prevailing wage, Davis-Bacon or Service Contract Act work, construction or healthcare clients, benefits administration, moving a company off a PEO.

W-2, part-time to start at roughly 15 to 25 hours a week. As our client base grows you can move to full-time if you want it, or stay part-time. Both are fine, and the hourly rate is the same either way.

We are based in Houston, and Texas or Virginia is a plus for overlapping hours, but neither is required. We can hire in Texas, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina today. If you are somewhere else and this is a strong fit, say so and we will look at it.

They are never required, and we cover the travel.

• Real schedule flexibility. Start at 15 to 25 hours a week and grow toward full-time if you want it, or stay part-time. The hourly rate is…