Sterling-Rice Group

SRG is a 100-person, privately-held brand consultancy and advertising agency that works across the entire lifecycle of a brand.

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.

This person will join a company of 100+ creative and smart individuals and will have dual reporting to both the CFO and the HR Director. Full-time responsibilities include: 

• Following established procedures, process payroll through ADP Workforce Now platform
  • Accurately and timely process bi-monthly payroll
  • Review electronic timesheets and correct entries as needed. 
  • Submit 401k submittal, tracks and reconcile account
  • Perform wage recalculations 
  • New employee data verification 
  • Clears payroll discrepancies 
  • Create manual checks and process garnishments as needed
• Payroll and benefit reconciliations to the general ledger
• Acting as the in-house expert on ever-changing payroll laws
• Administer benefits including health, dental, vision, life, LTD, FSA/Dependent Care, COBRA, and 401k. 
  • Accurately enrolls/terminates employees with carriers
  • Facilitates new-hire orientations and terminations
  • Assists employees regarding benefits claim issues and plan changes
  • Educates employees on benefit offerings and value 
  • Manages annual open enrollment process and plan evaluation
  • Process and pay monthly benefit invoices
• Field and address payroll and benefits questions
• Working with the CFO, responds to tax related notices
• Respond to unemployment claims
• 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
• Occasional support for other Accounting and HR duties

Your Critical Skills:

• Possess sound judgment along with a high level of integrity, confidentiality and dependability
• Customer service focus when interacting and communicating with staff 
• 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

This position can be based in our Boulder, CO office, work a hybrid schedule, or be fully remote under the right circumstances.

No Deadline Provided

Salary range for this position is between $65K - $75K, commensurate with experience. Please see our website at www.srg.com/careers for a list of all benefits.