Highlights
Oversee and process biweekly and monthly payroll cycles using Paylocity, ensuring 100 percent accuracy and compliance. Drive ongoing HRIS data integration, electronic record-building, and support modernization initiatives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Pomfret, CT |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Salary | $68,000–$77,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://www.cfstaffing.com/ |
Description
Payroll and Benefits Specialist
Salary: $68,000.00 - $77,000.00 annually
Our client, a prestigious organization, is seeking a Payroll and Benefits Specialist to join their team.
What we like about this Payroll and Benefits Specialist role:
- Stunning location!!
- Free fresh daily meals!
- Excellent benefits with a 403B up to 9% employer.
- Heavily subsided health insurance with 3 plans to chose from.
- Tuition remission potential!
- Five weeks PTO, additional paid holidays and sick days!
- High-impact, business-critical role within the HR area with dedicated leadership support.
- Opportunity to lead HRIS process modernization and drive automation improvements.
- Direct influence on payroll and benefits transformation within a supportive, close-knit team
- Executive visibility and hands-on collaboration with CFO and school leadership.
- Work life balance – not OT driven!
Key responsibilities of the HR and Benefits Specialist:
- Oversee and process biweekly and monthly payroll cycles using Paylocity, ensuring 100 percent accuracy and compliance.
- Drive ongoing HRIS data integration, electronic record-building, and support modernization initiatives.
- Manage employee onboarding, benefits administration, statutory filings (941s, 990, 5500), and benefits billing/reconciliation
- Calculate and administer FMLA, CT Paid Leave, and payroll adjustments as required
- Ensure full alignment with regulatory requirements and internal audit/compliance standards.
- Participate in ongoing special projects with the Director of HR.
Qualifications of the Payroll and Benefits Specialist:
- Strong hands-on payroll processing and reporting skills.
- Experience using Paylocity payroll and HRIS system is a plus. OR experience with a larger HRIS system is needed.
- Experience with benefits administration is a huge plus.
About Company
Founded by CPA firms in 1994, Creative Financial Staffing has spent over 30 years helping job seekers and employers succeed. In fall 2025, we rebranded as CFS—a name that reflects our full range of expertise while staying true to the trusted company you know.
CFS is the industry’s leading employee-owned staffing firm, connecting top talent in accounting, finance, technology, and human resources. We provide skilled professionals on both a temporary and permanent basis across diverse industries, leveraging our extensive network to match the right people with the right opportunities.
Our dedication to excellence extends to our award-winning culture, recognized repeatedly for growth, recruiting, workplace environment, and employee support. Honors include Forbes’ “America’s Best Recruiting and Temporary Staffing Firms,” Staffing Industry Analysts’ top U.S. staffing rankings, FlexJobs’ Top 100 Companies for Remote and Hybrid Work, Top Workplaces USA, Newsweek’s Best Practices awards, and more.
