Payroll & Benefits Specialist - Precision & Compliance

Elder Construction; Windsor, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

HSA with employer contribution

Life/AD&D insurance

Long-term disability insurance

401k with employer match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Accident insurance

Job summary

Elder Construction is seeking a Payroll & Benefits Administrator to join our Accounting & Finance team in Windsor, Colorado. This full-time, in-office role owns weekly payroll and day-to-day benefits administration, ensuring accurate data across payroll, HRIS, and accounting systems.

You will manage end-to-end payroll, benefits enrollments, deductions, and reporting, while coordinating onboarding, changes, leaves, and offboarding with internal teams and partners.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience running payroll and managing the full payroll cycle.
• Experience with benefits administration, including enrollments, deductions, COBRA, and Open Enrollment.
• Proficiency in Excel and comfort working across multiple systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and process weekly payroll from timekeeping review through final processing and reconciliation.
• Administer employee benefits, enrollments, deductions and Open Enrollment.
• Reconcile payroll and benefit information and investigate discrepancies.
• Maintain accurate employee information across payroll, accounting and benefit systems.
• Coordinate onboarding, employee changes, leaves and offboarding.
• Complete recurring payroll, benefit and compliance reporting.
• Troubleshoot system and data issues and coordinate with internal teams and outside partners to resolve them.
• Help maintain and improve the processes and controls behind payroll and benefits.

Skills

Payroll processing

Benefits administration

Excel

Multi-system reconciliation

Attention to detail

Clear communication

Discretion

Tools

Paylocity

Acumatica

Job description

Elder Construction is seeking a Payroll & Benefits Administrator to join our Accounting & Finance team in Windsor, Colorado. This full-time, in-office role owns weekly payroll and day-to-day benefits administration, ensuring accurate data across payroll, HRIS, and accounting systems.

You will manage end-to-end payroll, benefits enrollments, deductions, and reporting, while coordinating onboarding, changes, leaves, and offboarding with internal teams and partners.