Payroll Specialist

PREVAIL is a rapidly growing organization that provides accounting, tax and payroll services across the United States that exclusively serve small to mid-sized businesses. We have an obsession about working with these clients in the marketplace and providing them with a personalized experience! Today, we operate under different brand names in the market, and in Rhode Island, you will know us as Chamberland Business Accounting. We have grown through acquisitions and now have an internal sales team growing our business even more! Our approach is different than a traditional accounting firm in that we cater to small businesses and provide an affordable monthly service package that bundles accounting, tax and payroll together.

Our Payroll Specialist is critical to our business and this role will support our North Smithfield, RI location and the clients in that area. As a key member of the team, you will be instrumental in helping us deliver excellent service to our clients by working with them on an ongoing basis to process their employees’ payroll on-time and with 100% accuracy. Your main responsibility will be to provide outstanding service to a section of our small business clientele to support their payroll processing needs.


What Will You Do? Our newest team member will be responsible for the below, but not limited to:

• Manage an assigned book of client accounts to handle their scheduled payroll needs.
• Ongoing communication to retrieve weekly, time-sensitive payroll information from clients.
• Track all weekly payroll requirements; ensure accurate data entry
• Process and set up direct deposits as needed
• Pay payroll taxes & file quarterly and end of year reports for 50-60 clients and their employees.
• Utilize internal systems to manage clients’ payroll data and processing.
• Partner with clients as needed on their payroll questions or issue resolution.
• Offer recommendations on payroll efficiencies in firm location.
• Help educate team members on payroll processes and industry

Where Will You Work? Our Payroll Specialist role:

• Is located in our North Smithfield, RI office. Our systems for our clients’ payroll processing require this role to be an in office role.

What Do You Bring to Us? Our key attributes for consideration include:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 2-3 years’ experience setting up and processing a high volume of payrolls for small to midsized businesses, operating in multiple states.
• Deep knowledge and expertise of payroll.
• Ability to present, explain and discuss payroll concepts to clients.
• Experience directly interacting with clients on their payroll needs through various communication channels.
• Must be tech savvy and experienced.
• Upbeat, confident personality allowing for client interaction.
• Strong attention-to-detail with a focus on always delivering quality while meeting deadlines.
• Solid knowledge of all Microsoft applications with emphasis on word-processing, high-level Excel skills, Power Point and Outlook.
• US Work Authorization is required.

What Can We Offer? As we continue to grow, we want our employees to be heard & valued and we will provide you with:

• An attractive salary + bonus based on experience and matched skills.
• Employee paid monthly premiums (this is a rare benefit in the marketplace!) for medical, dental and vision.
• A generous paid vacation and sick offering plus time off for volunteering and other needs; equaling more than 5 weeks during the year.
• 12 paid holidays.
• 10 weeks of paid parental leave after 1 year of service.
• 401k with matching.
• Fun, company-sponsored office activities/celebrations.
• Career & growth opportunities for interested team members!

Our staff are our number one asset and your contributions are invaluable for our clients. We are committed to empowering our employees through professional development and a strong work-life balance. We enjoy seeing our employees succeed and we are building out our internal growth opportunities for you to make a career with us.

Additional Information:

PREVAIL is a rapidly growing organization that owns accounting, tax and payroll firms across the United States that exclusively serves small to mid-sized businesses. PREVAIL operates under the brand names of The Accounting Office, Chamberland Business Accounting, The Ellis Group and 180 Accounting. Our approach is different than a traditional firm in that we cater to small businesses and provide an affordable monthly service package that bundles accounting, tax and payroll together. We have a history of steady growth and are backed by institutional investors with decades of experience in scaling successful business services companies. Our solid foundation of investors and leadership team are focused on high growth with our current locations and client base, through a strong, dedicated revenue generation team, as well as a pipeline of future accounting firm acquisitions.


Our website can be found at:

www.prevailcompany.com