Senior Payroll Analyst
Avolta
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Bethesda • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $70,600 - $83,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Supports U.S. and Canadian payroll processing to ensure accuracy and timely execution
- Responsible for maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations, preserving payroll records, and managing off-cycle payment processing
- Examines each payroll run for accuracy, efficiency, and compliance; prepares summary report to the Director of Payroll on any apparent improvement opportunities
- Analyzes the payroll process and its efficiency over time, identifies areas of opportunity, and presents improvement plans; if improvement plans are considered viable, may be tasked with their implementation
- Prepares reports highlighting performance against targets and any identified issues, as well as trending payroll performance over time to encourage continuous improvement, including suggestions for long-term enhancements to the process
- Ensures compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements, including tax laws, wage and hour laws and other payroll-related regulations
- Verifies that work records have been captured correctly and completely; checks that all the performed work is a true reflection of the entered work records
- Validates bonuses, overtime, expense claims, or other ad hoc remuneration
- Verifies wage and salary data for errors/inconsistencies and highlights any issues
- Inspects mistakes and anomalies to determine whether they are systemic or resulting from faulty data input; flags systemic failures and liaises with the Director of Payroll to rectify them
- Performs regular spot checks to ensure deductions are accurate for each payroll run
- Audits the deductions process to determine and rectify the root cause of errors
- Oversees the distribution of paychecks and direct deposits
- Ensures payroll information updates such as promotions, salary band revisions, or annual salary increases, are entered into the HRMS by payroll staff; checks for accuracy
Requirements
- The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 5 years
- 3-5 years of payroll experience in a technical role
- A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 2 of the 5-year requirement
- 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience in the industry
- Must have previous experience processing high volume payroll
- Knowledge of US state, local, and federal tax regulations, as well as wage and hour regulations and laws
- Knowledge of Canadian federal and provincial laws and regulations preferred
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Requires PeopleSoft payroll experience; experience with Success Factors & ADP preferred
- Analytical mindset and keen eye for detail
- Possesses strong business acumen and a forward-thinking approach to payroll management
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Generous paid time off (vacation, flex or sick)
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Company paid life insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee assistance program
- Training and exciting career growth opportunities
- Referral program – refer a friend and earn a bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
payroll processingcompliance managementdata validationpayroll auditingreport preparationperformance analysiserror detectiondeductions auditinghigh volume payroll processingtax regulation knowledge
Soft skills
analytical mindsetattention to detailbusiness acumenforward-thinkingcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillscollaborationtime managementcritical thinking