Payroll Specialist

Job Description

Title:  Payroll Specialist

Location:  Charlottesville, VA 

Schedule:  Hybrid in-person and remote 

Status:  Full-time

Base Compensation: $65k - $85k per year

Benefits:  401(k), 401(k) matching, health, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability coverage, paid time off, professional development assistance, flexible work schedule with the ability to often work remotely.

Forward Financial Intelligence empowers local businesses and nonprofits by strengthening financial operations and distilling better intelligence from financial data. We are seeking an enthusiastic Payroll Specialist to join our team!

What Will I Do?

Support FFI’s bookkeeping team with your excellent payroll administrative skills. As part of the team, your client responsibilities will include:

  • Full-cycle payroll processing and management for various clients

  • Ensuring accuracy, compliance and efficiency in all payroll-related activities

  • Posting related payroll accounting

  • Advising clients and team members on pay-related best practices

  • Payroll tax filings, audit support, retirement and benefits processing

  • Documenting processes and procedures

  • Experience with ADP preferred

  • Ad hoc projects as needed in support of payroll

  • Ability to support client HR activities

Qualifications and Skills

  • 3-5+ years of professional payroll management experience required

  • Expertise in payroll compliance required

  • Multi-state payroll compliance experience preferred

  • Professional payroll certification preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration or related field preferred

  • Experience with payroll/accounting software (ADP/QB online preferred)

  • Exceptional organizational ability and high attention to detail.

  • Proficiency with Google Workspace

  • Outstanding spreadsheet skills or a desire to develop strong spreadsheet skills

  • Knowledge of payroll administration, operations, and processing

  • Ability to apply sound judgment and think critically

  • Skilled in providing guidance, training, and expertise to various stakeholders

Our diverse clients are almost exclusively in the Charlottesville area, so a passion to serve our local business and non-profit community will be essential. As such, while this work will be hybrid and leaning towards mostly remote, you must be local to the Charlottesville area.

All offers of employment are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.

We look forward to learning more about your professional goals! We thoroughly enjoy cover letters and welcome LinkedIn profiles and other alternatives to a traditional resume.

About Forward Financial Intelligence, Inc.

At Forward, our purpose is to improve people's lives, whether those lives belong to our team members, our clients, or our community. We want our employees to be delighted in their work, and for our customers to be equally delighted in our services. We value honesty and empathy in our pursuit of improving lives, and we seek to leverage innovation and creativity as we solve problems.

We are a human-centered company that offers flexible hybrid workweek schedules and generous PTO to fit your lifestyle.  Our small team allows for your voice to be of greater internal influence and for your contribution to be more impactful.  We highly value people and community, and enjoy paid volunteer days for local nonprofits, paid professional training & development, and team social activities.

Forward Financial Intelligence is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or protected Veteran status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Want to join our team?

Drop us an email and tell us why you would be a great fit.