Ascend Learning-posted 8 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Remote • Leawood, KS
Management of Companies and Enterprises

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture. Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning. Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers. We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more. Ascend Learning leads the way in innovation and solution creation to improve outcomes and deliver results for students, educators, and healthcare workers in the ever-changing field of healthcare. We offer advanced resources that drive nursing success, empower front-line certified allied health workers, help physicians pass boards and stay current, and provide education management tools for medical education programs.

  • Oversee and manage all aspects of the payroll process, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local laws and best practices.
  • Prepare and maintain accurate records and reports of payroll transactions, ensuring timely and accurate processing, including salary adjustments, special payments, tax allocations, and employee deductions.
  • Collaborate with HR, benefits, and finance departments to ensure data coordination and accuracy, and manage and resolve payroll production issues.
  • Develop and manage a detailed project plan for the HRIS payroll system implementation, including timelines, milestones, and resources, while building and maintaining requirements, process flows, and technical documentation.
  • Define payroll data flows, reports, and decision support needed for Finance, and collaborate with stakeholders to identify system improvements and enhance payroll processes.
  • Oversee the administration of the company's 401(k) retirement plan, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, and provide support and service to plan participants.
  • Provide oversight to ensure accuracy and timeliness of payroll delivery and develop the Payroll Specialist to enhance their skills and contributions.
  • Benefits modeling of open enrollment plans and project financial impacts of elections and changes, and preparing benefits reports to support the Treasurer and HR Total Rewards team.
  • 7+ years payroll experience in a corporate environment
  • Bachelor's degree preferred in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, IT or Human Resources
  • Demonstrated expertise in payroll management and execution
  • HRIS or payroll system upgrade or implementation experience preferred
  • Regulatory compliance experience, preferred in payroll and 401K
  • Strong technical and financial acumen as well as a strong technical systems understanding
  • Proven analytical and modeling capabilities in a financial environment
  • Strong financial and Microsoft office skills, expert in Excel preferred
  • Ability to prioritize and productively work in a fast-paced environment with multiple simultaneous projects and/or requests
  • Flexible and generous paid time off
  • Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • 401(k) employer matching program
  • Parental leave
  • Wellness resources
  • Charitable matching program
  • Hybrid work
  • On-site workout facilities
  • Community outreach groups
  • Tuition reimbursement
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