Payroll Specialist
Summary:
Our enterprise FinTech Client (not big banking) is looking to hire a detail-oriented Payroll Processing Specialist with extensive experience in ADP Workforce Now and advanced Excel skills. This contract role involves the preparation and processing of multi-state payroll, ensuring compliance, and maintaining confidentiality. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in payroll processing, not just payroll administration, and will be comfortable working in a dynamic environment.
Key Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in ADP Workforce Now for payroll processing
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and complex formulas
- Experience with multi-state payroll processing
- Knowledge of payroll tax reporting and compliance
- Familiarity with employee life cycle changes in payroll systems
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by ensuring a high level of confidentiality
- Respond to internal employee payroll inquiries promptly and oversee the payroll email inbox
- Maintain and organize hard payroll files
- Prepare and process multi-state payroll for exempt and nonexempt employees in the US and some international locations
- Process employee life cycle changes in the payroll system, including new hires, terminations, entity changes, salary increases, tax changes, department allocations, and garnishments
- Understand how payroll data is interpreted by third-party processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as HR, Benefits, and Finance/Accounting
- Provide relevant payroll-related reporting to various teams within the organization
- Assist with the audit of third-party vendor-related tasks
- Review quarterly payroll tax reporting and ensure filings are handled by ADP, as well as review and distribute annual W-2s
- Assist or lead ad-hoc projects as needed
Required Certifications/Education:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Business Administration) is preferred
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)) are a plus
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Seniority level
Not Applicable -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Human Resources -
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting and Financial Services
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