Senior Payroll Specialist

Overview

This role involves supporting biweekly payroll operations in an HR system for a client, with a 12-month duration and remote work.

Responsibilities

• Process biweekly payroll accurately and timely, including employee pay, time, leave, and time-off transactions.
• Review and adjust terminated employees’ final pay, including accrued time off and severance.
• Independently resolve employee payroll cases in partnership with HR Service teams.
• Process off-cycle payments, retroactive pay, and legally compliant employee overpayment corrections.
• Verify leave-of-absence dates and related payroll transactions.
• Coordinate employee garnishments with third-party providers, including setup, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
• Process ACH rejection refunds and help employees correct payment election details.
• Prepare and reconcile payroll upload files for one-time pay and benefit adjustments, ensuring required approvals and audit compliance.
• Process taxable stock transactions and adjust time-off accruals for changes in scheduled hours.
• Complete payroll administrative tasks, including sorting and distributing payroll mail.
• Maintain knowledge of payroll regulations, company policies, and procedures; recommend process improvements as needed.
• Support payroll projects and system testing, and train and mentor less experienced team members.
• Follow risk management, regulatory, and internal control standards, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Scope of Responsibilities

• Support biweekly payroll operations within the HR system, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Independently resolve complex and non-routine payroll issues using comprehensive knowledge of payroll processes, time and attendance practices, regulations, and company policies.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities

• No supervisory responsibilities.
• Provides training and mentoring to less experienced payroll team members.

Requirements

• Experience in payroll processing, including knowledge of payroll procedures, time and attendance practices, and applicable regulations.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and multitasking skills, with the ability to independently resolve complex payroll issues accurately and meet deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to confidentiality, compliance, and internal controls.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Workday Payroll or familiarity with Workday HCM and time and attendance systems.
• Experience handling payroll adjustments, garnishments, overpayments, leave-related transactions, final pay, and payroll reconciliations.
• Familiarity with payroll audits, system testing, process improvement, and training team members.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.

Compensation & Benefits

• Expected base salary range: $22.61 - $37.67/hour.
• Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, market factors, and where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained.
• A competitive benefit package is also offered.

Location

• Remote

Additional Information

• The employer does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee based recruitment services for this role.
• This employer will consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable local, state, and federal laws.
• Equal opportunity employer.