Payroll Operations & Compliance
• Own scheduled and off-cycle payroll runs in Rippling for 1,000+ W-2 employees across multiple states - validating timekeeping, compensation changes, garnishments, deductions, and final pay each cycle
• Perform pre- and post-payroll reviews, variance analysis, and funding validation; reconcile payroll to bank, tax, benefits, retirement-plan, and general-ledger records
• Administer approved payments to practice owners and other nonemployees, supporting year-end information reporting (Forms 1099)
• Manage our federal, state, and local payroll-tax accounts - registrations, closures, SUI rates, filing frequencies, and authorizations - as we enter new states
• Oversee filings and payments completed by Rippling, and drive tax notices, amendments, penalties, and credits to documented closure
• Lead quarter-end and year-end activities (Forms 941 and 940, W-2/W-3, applicable Forms 1099), and serve as the primary escalation point for employee and practice-owner payroll questions
• Lead recurring insurance reconciliations, matching carrier invoices against enrollments, employee deductions, and employer contributions so we are charged exactly what we owe
• Own 401(k) reconciliations - deductions, contributions, loan repayments, recordkeeper funding - and support annual testing, Form 5500 preparation, and the independent plan audit
• Coordinate annual workers’ compensation premium audits, preparing payroll exposure by state, location, and classification code, and drive findings to resolution with Finance, People Operations, brokers, and carriers
• Serve as Finni’s Rippling system owner - configurations, permissions, reporting, internal controls, role-based access, and audit-ready records
• Build the payroll knowledge base into the company’s single source of truth: policies, state requirements, and standard operating procedures
• Design and deploy agentic AI workflows that answer routine payroll questions automatically and route sensitive, employee-specific cases for human review
• Automate recurring work - agency notice triage, reconciliations, audit prep, reporting - so payroll scales without scaling headcount, and track accuracy, timeliness, and open-notice counts to prove it