Payroll & HR Specialist

Skybound Entertainment; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Skybound is seeking a Payroll & HR Operations Specialist to manage semi-monthly payroll across multiple locations and entities, while supporting onboarding, changes, leaves, and HR systems. You will work with the People & Performance team to ensure data accuracy, answer questions, and streamline processes.

Bonus points for experience with multi-state payroll, payroll tax administration, year-end payroll, HR systems, or process improvement; reports to Sr.

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll operations and HR processes across locations.
• Ability to handle sensitive employee information with discretion.
• Experience with HR and payroll systems.
• Strong organizational and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own semi-monthly payroll across multiple locations and entities.
• Process and audit regular, supplemental, and off-cycle payroll including bonuses and tax elections.
• Review timecards and payroll data, resolve discrepancies, maintain records.
• Support payroll tax administration, filings, reconciliations, and year-end W-2s.
• Coordinate onboarding, changes, leaves, terminations across payroll and HR systems.
• Prepare workforce reports and People team materials.

Skills

Payroll operations

Multi-state payroll

HR systems

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Tools

Payroll software

HRIS

Job description

The Next Era Needs You: Payroll & HR Specialist

Skybound is looking for a Payroll & HR Operations Specialist, the behind-the-scenes operator who helps make sure employees are paid accurately and key People processes run smoothly.

You’ll own semi-monthly payroll across multiple locations and company entities while supporting onboarding, employee changes, leaves of absence, offboarding, HR systems, and workforce reporting. You’ll work closely with the People & Performance team to keep employee data accurate, answer questions clearly, and improve the processes employees rely on.

If you are detail-oriented, service-minded, comfortable balancing deadlines and sensitive information, and motivated by making complex work feel simple for employees, we would love to hear from you.

Bonus points if you have experience with multi-state payroll, payroll tax administration, year-end payroll, HR systems, leave coordination, or process improvement.

Reports to: Sr. Director of HR

Work Location: remote or hybrid Los Angeles

Salary Range: $75,000 to $95,000

Join us and help build the employee experience behind the next era of Skybound.

What You’ll Do

• Own semi-monthly, multi-state, multi-entity payroll, ensuring accurate and timely processing.
• Process and audit regular, supplemental, and off-cycle payroll, including bonuses, adjustments, deductions, and tax elections.
• Review timecards and payroll data, resolving discrepancies and maintaining accurate employee records.
• Support payroll tax administration and compliance, including filings, reconciliations, garnishments, reporting, and year-end W-2s.
• Partner with HR to process new hires, terminations, compensation, benefits, status, and organizational changes across payroll and HR systems.
• Coordinate employee onboarding, including pre-employment requirements, orientation, documentation, and systems setup.
• Coordinate leaves of absence, supporting employees from initiation through return to work.
• Manage employee separations and offboarding, including documentation, records, and system updates.
• Maintain accurate HR data and records and prepare workforce reports, presentations, and People team materials.
• Support employees with payroll and HR operations questions while improving processes, controls, documentation, and the employee experience.

What We’re Looking For

• Payroll and/or HR operations experience, including experience with multi-state payroll.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with sensitive employee information.
• Experience working with HR and payroll systems.
• Strong organization, clear communication and proactive problem-solving skills.
• Someone who is equally comfortable digging into payroll details and helping an employee navigate an HR process.

About Skybound

Skybound is a company for creators. We place creators and their projects at the center of everything we do, bringing bold ideas to life across games, comics, television, film, audio, and more. Behind every page, screen, and scene, we never forget that people are the core of everything we do.

Compensation

• Actual base salary is dependent on several factors, including market dynamics, work location, experience, specialized skills or training, level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, and tenure at the company for current employees.
• The salary range listed is one component of the total compensation package for employees.
• Compensation decisions are based on the circumstances of each role.

Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, and free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program. We also offer a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous paid time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement. Benefits may vary based on employment classification, work location, and production assignment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Skybound, we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds. Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture, or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.

Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the California Fair Chance Act and the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, as applicable.

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