Lead Payroll Specialist, Zum
$130-150k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Student transportation services
Be an early applicant
Student transportation services
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-150k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring student transporation into a new era enabling greater safety, sustainability, equity, and transparency.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10+ years of payroll experience, with direct exposure to administering union payrolls
- Degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance. CPA or MBA a plus
- Familiarity with larger ERP/Accounting/Payroll software or a comparable Payroll/Enterprise system
- Knowledge of federal and state wage and hour laws and regulations including prevailing wage
- Must have experience interpreting CBAs relating to payroll and fringe administration
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) is a must-have
- Experience in managing multi-state payroll and regular off-cycle check processing
- Compliance regulations related to payroll
- Ideally, two years in a position of supervisory or lead responsibilities
What the job involves
- As Zūm's Lead Payroll Specialist, you will play a key role in managing payroll operations, ensuring compliance, and optimizing processes to support our growing workforce
- You will also act as a mentor to the existing Payroll team demonstrating best practices and be excited by the opportunity to coach and mentor members of the team
- Reporting directly to the Director of Payroll, you will oversee payroll processing, audits, compliance, and reporting while collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Coordinate weekly pay cycles at the division level for union CBA and Non-CBA exempt and non-exempt employees, across multiple sates and unions
- Partner with the corporate payroll group to manage and maintain accurate employee records, including new hire setup, direct deposit forms, tax forms, travel pay, subsistence, allowance, status change forms, employee terminations, or other pay adjustments
- Work with managers and supervisors to ensure that weekly time is submitted and recorded accurately
- Monitor employee vacation and PTO eligibility, accruals, timecard usage, and generate regular balance tracking reports
- Coordinate with managers, and local HR and operation teams to ensure compliance with CBAs. Duties may include coordination of new dispatches, terminations, project transfers, labor rate updates, miscellaneous tax issues and notices
- Ensure timely and accurate administration of new/updated union labor and fringe rates. Coordinate the distribution of such labor rate information to corporate finance, project accounting, operations, and estimating
- Become the in-house expert for division payroll policies, processes, procedures, and systems
- Support corporate finance and division accounting in providing necessary data for internal auditors, government agency audits, union wage and benefit compliance audits, and other payroll-related audits or verifications
- Lead the division payroll team in the accurate and timely processing of weekly payroll and continuously look for ways to enhance the overall efficiency and accuracy of the process
- Develop and maintain written policies and procedures to support the training and development of the division payroll team
Our take
The largest mass transit system in the US is student transportation, and it’s more than double the size of all others combined. It’s rife with inefficiencies, however: circuitous routes mean many students are spending more time travelling and less time sleeping, exercising, or participating in enrichment activities, affecting student outcomes and inequalities.
Zum is looking to overhaul school transport with the help of cloud computing and AI. It has a central hub from which it manages route planning and vehicle assignments across 4,000 areas and school districts in California, meaning fleet deployment, maintenance, and operational efficiency can be optimized. It also offers cameras and tracking in vehicles, and is committed to having a fully electric, 10,000-strong bus fleet by 2025.
It's an ambitious plan, but it’s clear that the US school busing system is in dire need of an overhaul. We’re seeing startups like Via offer a similar service to NY schools, gathering similarly strong momentum. With Zum fast approaching Unicorn status, and its California roll-out continuing without a hitch, it appears, for now, to be leading the modern student transportation startup pack.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2024
$32m
GRANT
Jan 2024
$140m
SERIES E
Total funding: $368.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits, including paid membership to One Medical
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Free daily catered lunches + fully stocked kitchen at HQ
- Ability to have a huge impact at an early-stage, mission-driven startup
- Fun office culture and a team you would be proud to work with
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ritu Narayan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a Lead Product Manager at Yahoo!, eBay, then took up a Sloan Fellowship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Vivek Garg
(Co-Founder & COO)Spent over a decade as a Major in the Indian Army, then went on to found and lead BAPAR, before taking up a Researcher role at Stanford University's SEED Institute.
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