(Remote Work) Payroll and Accounts Payable Specialist – The Community Firm

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Job Overview:

  • Job Title: Payroll and Accounts Payable Specialist
  • Hiring Organization: The Community Firm
  • Company Website: https://www.thecommunityfirm.com/
  • Remote Locations: United States
  • Job Type: Remote, Part Time

About the CO Eviction Defense Project (CEDP)

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented eviction risk for U.S. renters, and we formed the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project (CEDP) in April 2020 as a direct response. Over the past few years, our community organizing project evolved into a large housing stability organization that operates a continuum of eviction and displacement prevention care. Our mission is to Keep Coloradans Housed.  We do this by helping to prevent mass evictions and homelessness.

Born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the law firm and housing stability fund that make up CEDP will continue to operate and deepen their services for Colorado renters facing eviction. Specifically, CEDP offers a “continuum care” approach to eviction prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed. Serving 1,000 households per month, we bring together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to provide four services:

• Rental Assistance: through the Colorado Stability Fund, we leverage public funds to pay back and future rent, reinstate leases, and avert evictions through rental debt settlements.

• Legal Services: For complicated cases with additional legal issues or difficult landlords, CEDP offers eviction defense services, paired with rental assistance dollars, to encourage settlement or stabilize tenancies and represent tenants in court when negotiation does not work.

• Rehousing and Case Management: Where legal services do not work, we provide rehousing support services through ERA funding and agency referrals.

• Policy: More broadly, we go case to cause. We work with our clients to tell their stories and amplify their voices into policy change. For example, In the 2020-2021 legislative session, for example, we drafted and, in coalition with other stakeholder sand community organizations, passed the renters’ rights legislation that caps late fees, penalizes abusive landlords, and gives Coloradans access to the warranty of habitability without paying a bond. Our model has been cited as a best practice by White House, HUD, the Urban Institute, and in the media.

As COVID moves from pandemic to endemic, CEDP is working to stabilize families who have been left behind and fight community wealth stripping through a broader Community Economic Defense model. As our team continues to scale our services at risk of eviction, we are also beginning to build a comprehensive economic, legal, and policy response to mortgage foreclosure, debt, and predatory towing across Colorado. Similar to CEDP’s work on rental housing, these efforts will offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.

As our team continues to scale our services at risk of eviction, we are also beginning to build a comprehensive economic, legal, and policy response to foreclosure across Colorado. Similar to CEDP’s work on rental housing, this effort will seek to provide homeowners at risk of foreclosure with a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Accurately assist in processing payroll bi-weekly for exempt and non-exempt employees for 125+ employees in Rippling
  • Update payroll records by entering adjustments on pay rates, employee status changes etc.
  • Handle payroll inquiries from employees and management; investigate and resolve any discrepancies in payroll.
  • Manage employee expense reimbursements and contractor payments
  • Manage employee electronic timesheets
  • Maintain historical records for payroll and vendors
  • Assist in managing credit card expenditures for required documentation and ensuring expenses are coded to the general ledger and grants
  • Assist in managing accounts payable
  • Assist with the preparation of annual 1099’s
  • Other duties as assigned

Job Requirements:

Skills:

  • Software knowledge required: QuickBooks Online, Excel/Google Sheets
  • Other application knowledge, highly preferred: Ramp (or Expensify or similar expense reimbursement tools), bill.com, third-party payroll service, timesheets
  • Strong technology skills and the ability to manage data
  • An organized and flexible approach to work, with the ability to plan, prioritize and balance often conflicting demands
  • Effective relationship building
  • Attention to detail
  • Analyzing large quantities of information
  • Knowledge of compliance rules and regulations for payroll Confidentiality

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

  • Bachelor degree in accounting, finance, or related field preferred
  • 2-3 years previous bookkeeping and payroll experience required

Employee Benefits:

This is a remote position in the Denver, Colorado area, part-time, hourly, non-exempt position that pays $30 an hour. Anticipated hours are roughly 20-25 hours per week. Schedule is flexible, at least 50% of the hours must be worked between 8am and 5pm MT.

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