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.
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