Payroll Support Specialist

Posted 15 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
Remote
Mid level
Fintech • HR Tech • Payments • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) • Data Privacy
We’re on a mission to make paying people simple.
The Role
The Payroll Support Specialist at Check will identify and assess customer needs, collaborate on reviewing payroll and tax information, provide expert guidance on inquiries, and ensure exceptional service delivery, working closely with partners and the internal Tax team.
Summary Generated by Built In
Building at Check

At Check, we make paying people simple. In doing that, we’re not just building our own business— we’re building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll, we’re redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses to launch, grow, and thrive. Check out the full story | Tune in.

Check is far more than just API infrastructure. We’re a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

Our Team

Payroll is broken. Come fix it alongside a team that’s as passionate as you are! At Check, you'll use creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and grit to impact every business we build. We view problems to solve and jobs to be done as opportunities to contribute to the solution; we ignore conventional role boundaries in favor of the unique strengths and value each builder brings to our team and to our mission.

Join us if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll. Let’s simplify the complex, make a real impact, and create a better future for businesses of every size.

At Check, the Support team is responsible for top-tier proactive and reactive partner and employer communication and account management, including responding to inbound ticket requests for support. The support function's goal is to deliver exceptional service, and we do this by developing professional relationships with partners and their customers to earn their respect and trust. You will leverage your deep payroll and tax knowledge to navigate complex scenarios, deliver accurate solutions, and build lasting relationships through exceptional service. It is the responsibility of the payroll support specialist to work across the teams at Check to ensure a high level of service for all of our partners.

In this role, you will:

  • Identify and assess customer’s needs to achieve satisfaction.
  • Collaborate with partners and customers to review payroll and tax information, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations.
  • Meet or exceed response and ticket SLAs to provide timely and effective support to partners.
  • Provide expert guidance on product, technical, and tax-related inquiries, resolving issues and escalating as needed.
  • Triage non-support-related requests to other internal teams. 
  • Minimize escalation through ownership and transparency.
  • Going above and beyond - knowing when to jump on a call to resolve a complex payroll issue and build rapport with our partners.
  • Support our Tax team with requests during quarter-end and year-end filings.
  • Continuously improve skills and knowledge through collaboration with all cross-functional teams.
  • Build strong relationships to establish trust and drive partner/customer retention.
  • Exceed partner/customer expectations by providing exceptional customer service and support.

Many backgrounds could fit this role, but ideal candidates will have some or all of the following:

  • Have 4+ years in client or partner-facing role
  • Have 2+ years of experience in payroll
  • Must be located in the Pacific Time Zone or willing to work Pacific Time Zone hours (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM PT / 11:30 AM - 8:30 PM ET)
  • Have a deep passion for solving customer problems
  • Capable of managing several tasks at once in a fast-moving environment
  • Are eager to "roll up their sleeves" and get things done
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Strong phone contact handling skills and active listening
  • Comfort with ticketing systems and tracking work (ie Salesforce, ZenDesk, etc)
  • Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Takes ownership and identifies areas to improve quality and efficiency 
  • Willingness and interest in attending our annual 3-day company offsite in the fall

Travel and Office Policy

The Check team is distributed across the US and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we welcome remote work, we believe time together in person is valuable and important. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year! We expect all employees to be willing to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the fall.  

For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the team hosts regular happy hours, game nights, etc. 

What we offer:

For full-time employees, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage, effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.

The actual annual salary for this role depends on each candidate’s experience, qualifications and work location. Most new hires are placed near the midpoint of this range to ensure fairness with our existing team’s compensation:

  • The expected range in San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle is between $90,000 and $99,000. 
  • The expected range for all other locations is between $76,800 and $84,150.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline.

Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

Check participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U.S. Check does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

Top Skills

Payroll
Salesforce
Tax
Zendesk

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
100 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Our API abstracts away the complexities of running payroll: tax calculation, remittance, and filing, plus the movement of money between companies and employees. This enables companies to easily build fully integrated payroll products to offer to their customers.

Why Work With Us

As the first touchpoint for the $10 trillion in wages paid in the US every year, payroll is a strategic yet under-explored space in the broader fintech ecosystem. We believe that the infrastructure-as-a-service model will fundamentally transform the current payroll industry and promote innovation in financial services for years to come.

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Check Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

The Check team is distributed across the US and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. We welcome in-office, hybrid, and remote work options. For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQNew York, NY
San Francisco, CA
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