SPECIALIST - PAYROLL COMPLIANCE (TEMPORARY)

This role is responsible for establishing and maintaining employee payroll records and providing dedicated quality processing services and error-free payroll to our team members.

• Supports projects to set up outsourced services for acquired organizations in our current systems and with our vendors.
• Assist with setting up tax locations in the Payroll system and ADP Tax (via Smart Compliance).
• Maintains all payroll tax reporting records and supports audits in an organized and accessible manner.
• Responsible for reconciling all payroll tax payments for timeliness and accuracy, including daily payments made by ADP.
• Responsible for reconciling all garnishment payments for timeliness and accuracy, including daily payments made by ADP.
• Responsible for garnishment set-up in Infinium and ADP (via Smart Compliance), including but not limited to, receiving and disseminating wage attachment orders to the appropriate internal teams to get legal authorization to establish the orders in our systems.
• Supports Payroll Compliance Manager with all correspondence with payroll taxing authorities on behalf of SGA and HRI and our payroll processing partners.
• Applies knowledge to the continued use of existing technology to increase department efficiency, streamline the monthly close process, and improve the tax and accounting processes.
• Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.
• Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment in both our physical location as well as remotely as required.

• Bachelor’s degree in an accounting, finance or business, or equivalent work experience.
• 1 year of full payroll cycle processing.
• Previous payroll processing experience within multi-state and union environment highly preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• The position requires prolonged periods of sitting, writing and keyboarding.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Atmosphere is that of an office that is usually quiet but occasionally can get hectic.