Sterling-Rice Group

Named a “Best Place to Work” by Outside Magazine and AdAge

Sterling-Rice Group (SRG), is a nationally recognized brand-building firm based in Boulder, Colorado.

At our core, we are solutionists—people who love solving problems. As a world-renowned consultancy and full-service agency in one, we are uniquely positioned to solve our clients’ problems through best-in-class consumer insights, new product innovation, brand positioning, design, and strategy. SRG has been ranked on Outside Magazine’s Best Places to Work list for the past tenyears and was recognized by AdAge as a Best Place to Work in 2016 and 2017.

Our practice areas are aligned in service of creating and activating products and brands into the market, with the following expertise:

• Innovation: new product innovation, brand positioning, brand revitalization, product and package design
• Strategy: portfolio strategy, product category analysis, quantitative analysis
• Insights: full quantitative and qualitative capabilities, including new category exploration, consumer trends, target segmentation, ethnographic research
• Design: brand identity, packaging, environmental design, brand expression and experience
• Advertising: full-service agency with robust creative, digital, media, and analytics capabilities

Who We Are: 

SRG is a brand consultancy and advertising agency that works across the entire lifecycle of a brand. We are an independent, privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. We are proudly majority women owned and led, and we have been named a “Best Place to Work” by Outside Magazine and AdAge. 

Our Approach: 

We approach challenges as a creative collective that pursues meaning by bringing together strategic minds, empathetic souls, and elegant sensibility to help brands find their unique place in culture. As a full-service agency and world-renowned consultancy in one, we are uniquely positioned to solve our clients’ problems through consumer insights, brand strategy, new product innovation, brand positioning, design, and advertising.

Position Description:

This part-time position will report to both the Controller and the HR Director and will have responsibilities and expectations in the following areas:

Job Requirements:

• Following established procedures, process payroll through ADP Workforce Now platform
  1. Accurately and timely process bi-monthly payroll
  2. Review electronic timesheets and correct entries as needed. 
  3. Submit 401k submittal, tracks and reconcile account
  4. Perform wage recalculations 
  5. New employee data verification 
  6. Clears payroll discrepancies 
  7. Create manual checks as needed 
  8. Process garnishments as needed
• Payroll and benefit reconciliations to the general ledger
• In house expert on ever-changing payroll laws
• Administers benefits including health, dental, vision, life, STD, LTD, FSA/Dependent care, COBRA, and 401k. 
  1. Enroll employees into benefits upon hire, open enrollment or with a qualified event
  2. Make changes to or terminate employee benefit coverage upon termination or with a qualified event
  3. Process and pay monthly benefit invoices 
• Field and address payroll and benefits questions
• Working with the Controller, responds to tax related notices
• Respond to unemployment claims
• Process any termination checks 
• Understand and be compliant with Employee Handbook 
• Reconcile taxes reported to ADP reports as well as reconciling year end W-2’s and W-3 
• Maintain supporting documentation in an organized electronic filing system 
• Review new employee documents for completeness prior to set up 
• Administer year end payroll and benefits processes such as reporting annual health care expenses, scheduling W-2 distribution and management, 1095 reporting and filing
• Customer service focus when interacting and communicating with staff for payroll notifications and questions

Your Critical Skills:

• Possess sound judgment along with a high level of integrity, confidentiality and dependability
• Knowledge of labor laws and benefits
• Knowledge of payroll accounting procedures including GL
• Adaptability: able to shift gears comfortably, isn’t upset when things are up in the air, doesn’t have to finish things before moving on but tracks things through to completion
• Relates well to many types of people and can build rapport in a constructive and effective way
• 3+ years of payroll and benefits experience
• Excellent problem solving ability and creative skills to adapt to a changing, growing environment
• Takes initiative and is able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Intermediate to expert level Excel capability

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or commensurate work experience
• Proficient with ADP Workforce Now

Work is remote during COVID and will be on a hybrid basis beginning September2021. Long-term relocation to Colorado is preferred, but negotiable. Part-time compensation starting at $40,000, commensurate with experience. Please see our website at www.srg.com/careers for a list of all benefits. 

Boulder

No Deadline Provided

Part-time compensation starting at $40,000