Hybrid Payroll & Benefits Specialist (Hybrid) bei Hope Media Group

Description

Join a company that truly impacts others!

Hope Media Group is a multi-brand ministry. Every story we share, every event we host, and every song we play is done to engage people to love Jesus, serve others, and spread Hope. 

Hope Media Group the home of KSBJ, WayFM, Vida Unida and NGEN radio.

We invite you to apply for Payroll & Benefits Specialist (Greater Houston, TX area) and be a part of our growing ministry to Love Jesus, Serve Others, and Spread Hope. Our team describes our environment as fun, encouraging, collaborative, engaging, caring, family oriented, and friendly. We would love for you to join us and be part of what God is doing in our ministry! 

The Payroll & Benefits Specialist is responsible for the accurate and timely processing of multi-state payroll and benefits administration for approximately 200 team members at Hope Media Group. This role ensures compliance with applicable laws and internal policies while serving as a key liaison to team members for payroll and benefit- related matters. The ideal incumbent will be highly organized, detail-oriented, customer-centric, demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, and be highly proficient with Paylocity or similar systems to manage payroll and HRIS tasks. This position supports our ministry’s mission by stewarding payroll and benefits with excellence and compassion, caring well for our team members while maintaining the highest standards of integrity.

Essential Functions

Payroll Processing & Compliance:

• Process biweekly, multi-state payroll using Paylocity, ensuring accuracy in earnings, deductions, taxes, and benefit contributions.
• Maintain compliance with federal and state payroll laws.

Benefits Administration:

• Administer health, dental, vision, life, disability, and retirement benefits.
• Serve as the primary contact for employee benefit inquiries and open enrollment.
• Process and track leave management related to paid time off, STD, LTD, FMLA, Workers’ Compensation, etc.
• Coordinate with brokers, vendors, and carriers as needed.

Data Integrity & Reporting:

• Maintain and update payroll and HRIS data, ensuring records are accurate, complete, and confidential.
• Perform audits and reconciliations related to payroll and benefits.

Team Collaboration & Projects:

• Partner with HR and Finance & Accounting teams on process improvements, compliance reporting, and benefit plan communications.
• Support annual audits and benefit renewals.

Demonstrated Faith:

• Committed to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Be spiritually grounded and Biblically literate.
• Comfortable praying for co-workers in team meetings, leading spoken prayer, and participating in ministry prayer meetings and Bible studies.
• Lives by the Christian principles defined by the Ministry Statement of Faith.
• Participates in on-air fundraisers and prays for donors as needed.
• Has a passion for leveraging the platform of radio for evangelism and discipleship.
• Exhibits a strong moral character.
• Is an active member of a Bible believing local church.

Requirements

Education:

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, HR, or a related field strongly preferred. Equivalent work experience will be considered.
• One or more relevant certifications such as CPP, CBP, CEBS, HRCI or SHRM is a plus.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in payroll and benefits administration.
• Experience processing multi-state payroll and working with Paylocity or related systems strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Heart for Christian ministry
• Strong moral character
• Has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Spiritually grounded and working knowledge of scripture
• Must be an active member of a Bible believing local church

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

 Travel:

• Minimal

Nights/Weekends/Holidays:

• Occasional nights or weekends during special events, Support Drives, or other company-sponsored events.

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical Activity may include Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers including pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand as in handling. Light work. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

Full-Time Benefits Offerings:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account w/employer contribution
• Flexible Savings Accounts
• Company Paid Short Term Disability/Long Term Disability
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Three (3) Paid Mission Days
• Twelve (12) Company-Paid Holidays
• 403B Retirement with Company Match
• Group Life Insurance
• Legal Shield/Identity Theft Protection
• Access to Marketplace Ministry Chaplains 

Third-Party Recruiter Policy

• We are grateful for the interest of those who wish to support our hiring efforts. However, Hope Media Group does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from external staffing agencies or search firms. Submissions from third parties will not be considered and may be retained without obligation or payment or fees.