Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options. This means you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or you can work remotely from most locations within the country listed for this role.
The Global Payroll and Employment Tax team is looking for a creative, enthusiastic, and experienced Payroll Specialist 2 to join us in providing exceptional support to LinkedIn employees and business groups. You will be responsible for delivering a complete and accurate flow of data to internal and external stakeholders to ensure that all compensation, deduction, and taxation details are understood.
Responsibilities:
Payroll Processing and Administration
- Bi-Weekly Payroll Processing: Perform accurate preparation and processing of bi-weekly US and Canada payroll, including new hire and termination processing, leave of absence payments, retroactive payments, commissions, one-time non-recurring payments (e.g., bonuses, perk-up payments, patent awards, non-cash awards).
- Taxable Benefits: Process taxable benefits such as gifts and transit commuter programs.
- Stock-Based Compensation: Process stock-based compensation transactions (ESPP Disqualified Dispositions, RSUs, Non-Quals, and ISOs).
- Assist in ESPP stock purchase and enrollment on a quarterly basis.
- 401(k) Contributions: Audit and post 401(k) contributions and demographic files to Fidelity on a bi-weekly basis.
- Multi-State Payroll: Process multi-state bi-weekly payroll for over 11,000+ employees while adhering to deadlines.
- Termination Payments: Responsible for calculation and reconciliation of all terminations according to state regulations.
- Payroll System Updates: Ensure employee information is properly updated in the payroll system via Workday integration and resolve discrepancies with appropriate teams.
- Compliance and Policy Adherence: Strong policy advocate to ensure all transactions are compliant with internal policies and procedures.
- Adhere to corporate policies and procedures.
- Taxation: Understand and ensure proper taxation of employer and employee-paid benefits through accurate payroll processing.
Reporting and Documentation
- Report Preparation: Develop and write ad hoc reports pertinent to internal and agency requirements.
- Prepare and maintain standard and ad hoc reports and queries.
- Payroll Knowledge Maintenance: Review and maintain payroll knowledge articles.
Process Improvement and Efficiency
- Process Improvements: Assist in identifying process improvements to ease day-to-day payroll activities.
- Assist manager with process improvement efficiencies.
- Special Projects: Handle special projects and additional tasks as needed.
Collaboration and Support
- Vendor and Team Liaison: Liaise with ADP, Talent Services, and Payroll Operations teams to identify open cases and ensure timely resolution.
- Payroll Queries and Reconciliation: Provide research, analysis, and reconciliation for payroll-related queries or unexpected results and recommend practical solutions.
Regulatory Knowledge
- Labor Laws: Possess extensive knowledge of US and Canada labor laws and regulations.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of multi state payroll experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- FPC or CPP certification is a plus
- Experience in international/expat payrolls and equity compensation
- Has a good sense and judgement to raise issues before they escalate
- Possess high degree of professionalism and can communicate with sensitivity
- Driven to accomplish tasks and projects
- Self-starter, ability to work independently but also flexible working with a team and can complete tasks under limited supervision
- Highly detail oriented and can handle multiple priorities while following moving targets with ease
- Proficient in MS Excel including advanced formula functions (Vlookups, Pivot tables, IF statements)
- Expert knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel), ADP Global (SAP based system), ADP Smart Compliance, Workday, Service Now, Pro-Business, R&R, Report Writer and various payroll software
- Strong understanding of payroll and tax withholding compliance obligations
- Excellent communication, organizational, analytical and customer service skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion
- Ability to demonstrate a high degree of accuracy and urgency
Suggested Skills
- Multi-state payroll management
- People management
- HR systems
- Cross-functional partnerships
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $81,000 - $131,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.
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LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
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