About Panorama: 

Panorama Education is a fast-growing technology startup based in Boston and San Francisco  focused on radically improving education. Over 1,500 school systems serving 12 million students across 50 states have adopted the Panorama platform as clients and thought partners, including the entire state of Iowa and Hawaii, as well as large districts like New York City, San Francisco, and Dallas.  Panorama’s platform also helps educators collect data about non-academic factors that are key to each child’s success in school and in life, such as social-emotional learning and well-being, safety, teacher-student relationships, and family engagement. Panorama has raised $45 million from Emerson Collective, YCombinator, Spark Capital, Owl Ventures, Uncork, and others.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Director of Compensation and Benefits  you would be responsible for administering Panorama's payroll and benefit program.  In this role you will perform a variety of record-keeping and payroll-processing activities as well as onboarding new employees including benefits.  

What We’re Looking For:

• Analyzes, prepared and inputs payroll data: utilizing a system to produce accurate and timely payroll, ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal wage and hour laws
• Perform all necessary activities to process payroll including but not limited to analyzing, preparing, and submitting payroll data for new and existing employees, benefit deductions, tax withholdings and garnishments
• Serve as primary point of contact for plan vendors and third party administrators
• Coordinate transfer of data to external contacts for services, premiums and plan administration
• Work with the accounting team on reconciliation of payroll accounts
• Provide payroll reporting for financial reporting purposes 
• Coordinate benefit processing; handle enrollments, COBRA, leaves of absence, terminations and changes
• Coordinate with the People team regarding payroll related administration requirements and individual employee payroll needs
• Primary contact for employee support and education for payroll and benefits 
• Responsible for candidate offer letters, background checks and new hire onboarding
• Lead benefits orientation and onboarding  session
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality 

Key Requirements:

• 2-3 years processing payroll and benefits administration
• Working knowledge of national payroll , employee benefit policies, procedures and reporting requirements  
• Knowledge of all relevant payroll, employment, and income tax laws, regulations and operating guidelines 
• Ability to accurately perform data entry, to formulate, process and generate computerized reports
• Attention to detail and audit skills 
• Experience with payroll systems such as Gusto, Paylocity, Paycom, Paycheck. ADP 
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to write or speak about complicated payroll and benefit issues 
• Capable of prioritizing and handling multiple projects under tight timelines
• Ability to succeed and self-motivate in a remote team
• Comfortable working within a high growth ever changing environment
• Ability to maintain confidentiality 

Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators, and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

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