Benefits & Payroll Manager

At Brightline, we believe in creating meaningful connections through exceptional experiences. We’re creating a brighter way to get there by making travel more convenient, more sustainable, and more hospitable every day. If you’re optimistic, forward-thinking, and interested in shaping the future of travel with us, we’d love to hear from you.

Your Purpose

As the Manager, Benefits & Payroll you will be responsible for owning the benefits administration process including designing and administering teammates' benefits programs, annual compliance reporting across your areas of responsibility, administration of leaves of absence, and overseeing payroll for roughly 700 Brightline teammates.

Reporting to the Senior Director of People & Culture, you will play a crucial role in creating an accurate, accessible and user-friendly experience for teammates. A successful candidate will be detail-oriented, highly organized, and possess strong communication skills.

If you have the courage to lead, build strong relationships with people across different perspectives, and are driven to make things happen for your teammates, this is the perfect opportunity!

Your Role

• Analysis: Responsible for conducting necessary analysis across disciplines to measure performance and compliance for Brightline programs.
• Benefits Administration: Responsible for the development, communication, implementation, and administration of benefits program including health, wellness, and 401k administration (familiarity with Railroad Retirement a plus) across multiple US geographies; Leverage market data to ensure program recommendations are competitive; Maintain, update and enhance the HRIS benefits module, including integrations, as appropriate.
• Compliance: Responsible for ensuring processes and reporting procedures meet all company, state, and federal regulations across payroll, benefits, and leave administration including but not limited to ERISA, COBRA, FMLA/ADA/USERRA 5500s, and Health Care Reform.
• Leave Administration: Oversees the administration of all leave-of-absence requests, ensuring processes are streamlined and optimized for an empathetic teammate experience including STD, LTD, state-driven disability laws, FMLA/ADA/USERRA.
• Wellness Programs Management: Responsible for development, execution and management of wellness program. This includes creating experiences that align with our strategy, enhance the teammate experience and educate teammates.
• Payroll: Oversees the end-to-end payroll processes and reporting for three business entities.

We are a new business model – agile and evolving. This job description isn’t meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all the things you do. 

Your Qualifications

• A minimum of seven years of benefit management and payroll management experience in a corporate environment
• Past experience evaluating market data to ensure our benefits programs remain competitive
• Proven experience in the design and implementation of benefits and HRIS programs
• Must have strong change management experience
• Significant experience with ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, and emerging regulatory issues
• Experience with overseeing US payroll tax and reporting across multiple states
• Advanced MS Excel skills, such as VLOOKUP, pivot tables, conditional formatting, advanced charting, data validation and manipulation, etc.
• Possesses an employee customer-centric and problem-solving mindset
• Strong written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels
• Ability to work cross-functionally, especially with HR team, payroll, and finance
• Ability to work onsite out of either our Orlando or Downtown Miami locations in a hybrid capacity (3 days per week onsite). 

Combine your experience, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit by joining our growing team in Florida. Brightline is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and the opportunity to make a difference while making history as the only privately-funded rapid rail service in the country. 

Brightline Management, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Brightline Management, LLC will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer. 

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