Job Summary
As a Payroll Analyst - II, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of payroll processes within our organization. You will be responsible for managing payroll operations, analyzing financial data, and supporting various accounting functions. Your expertise will help streamline payroll management while ensuring compliance with regulations. Join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of fostering a positive work environment through precise payroll practices!
Job Description:
Essential Duties:
- Payroll Administration: Oversee and manage all aspects of payroll processing using the ADP Financial Reporting system, ensuring accurate and timely payment for both union and non-union employees across multiple states.
- Data Entry and Time Processing: Accurately input employee data and process time entries, ensuring that all hours worked are captured correctly and in a timely manner.
- Verification and Reconciliation: Conduct thorough verification of payroll data and perform regular reconciliations and audits related to payroll discrepancies, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and internal policies.
- Analyzes, audits, validates, and prepares data for the payroll system in accordance with payroll schedules.
- Updates, and maintains documentation on all payroll policies, and procedures while maintaining compliance with departmental process guidelines, and standards during each payroll cycle.
- Supports system elevations and process automation. Expands a knowledge of payroll and timekeeping system fields, codes, and processes to problem solve issues such as vendor interface failures.
- Updates, and maintains payroll files. Files paperwork maintains weekly payroll reports and ensures documentation and records comply with audit control standards, practices, and procedures.
- Reporting: Prepare and generate various payroll reports as required, using advanced Excel functionalities to analyze data and present findings to management, and union leaders.
- Compliance: Stay informed about federal, state, and local payroll regulations, ensuring that all payroll processes are compliant with legal standards, and alignment with union contracts.
- Collaboration: Work closely with HR and finance teams to provide support on payroll-related inquiries and maintain accurate employee records.
- Assists with other tasks or special projects, e.g. W-2 reconciliations, internal and external audits, other duties as assigned.
- Problem-Solving: Identify and troubleshoot payroll discrepancies, implementing effective solutions and improvements to streamline payroll operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Human Resources, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of payroll experience
- Minimum of 5 years of working knowledge of federal, state, and local tax concepts in a multi-state environment.
- Proven experience in payroll administration, preferably with a focus on multi-state payroll processing.
- Proficiency with in-house reporting system or similar payroll software (Preferably Workday and/or SAP.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and data analysis functions.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to handle sensitive information confidentially.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively interact with team members and management to enhance a collaborative and supportive work environment.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 - $68,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
