Corporate Human Resources & Accounting Business Partner

Position: Corporate Human Resources & Accounting Business Partner Company: Columbia Safety Services, LLC Location: Seattle, WA in-office during training, then hybrid with up to two days per week remote Reports To: Controller Employment Type: Full-time, salaried, exempt Bargaining Unit Status: Non-union Incentive Eligibility: Not commission or incentive eligible; see Compensation Travel: Minimal occasional travel to branch offices About Columbia Safety Services Columbia Safety Services is the corporate support team for a growing group of fire and life safety businesses across the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West: Columbia Fire, LLC Seattle, WAValley Fire Control, LLC Albany and Newport, OR + Spokane, WAFFF Protection Greater Boise, with an office in Nampa, ID Our companies design, install, inspect, and service fire sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems, suppression systems, portable extinguishers, and the life safety equipment that protects people and property.

Columbia Fire has served the Seattle market since 2005.

We are a multi-state regional company growing both organically and through acquisition, and we are building efficient, scalable financial and people operations as we expand.

Our core values guide how we operate: Customer First, Grit, Effective Communication, Own the Outcome, Take Pride in the Work, and Do the Right Thing.

Why This Role Exists We now run payroll, benefits, onboarding, and accounting for multiple companies across three states, and both functions sit with a small corporate team that is stretched thin.

Certified payroll filings, 401(k) uploads, benefit enrollments, bank reconciliations, sales tax returns, and month-end close all land on the same few desks.

That does not hold as we keep acquiring companies.

Every acquisition adds employees, a payroll register, a benefits population, a set of business licenses, and another general ledger to reconcile.

This seat exists to take real ownership of both halves the people side and the accounting side so the corporate team can operate ahead of the business instead of catching up to it.

The Opportunity This is a genuinely hybrid role, and we want to be direct about that.

Roughly half of this job is human resources administration and roughly half is corporate accounting.

You will be the person an employee comes to with a benefits question, and the person reconciling the bank in Acumatica.

That combination is unusual, and it is deliberate.

In a multi-entity company our size the two functions touch constantly payroll journal entries, benefit accruals, workers compensation audits, certified payroll.

Someone who understands both does the work better than two people who each understand one.

You will report to the Controller, work closely with the accounting team, and have real influence over how these processes get built as we scale.

Human Resources Responsibilities Serve as the primary point of contact for employees on HR policies, procedures, and employment-related questionsC...