Senior SAP HCM Payroll Consultant
Strada
Senior Payroll Specialist
Cadencia
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇲🇽 Mexico
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Senior
About the role
- Process and review multi-state payrolls for a portfolio of 40-60 clients using Gusto, ADP, Paychex, and Justworks, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with all deadlines.
- Lead or assist with migrating clients between payroll systems, ensuring accurate data transfers, beginning balances, and compliance alignment.
- Set up and maintain earnings, deductions, reimbursements, and benefits (401(k), HSAs, FSAs, stipends, garnishments).
- Ensure compliance with minimum wage, overtime, and final pay laws across all 50 states.
- Reconcile payroll journals, tax liabilities, and GL postings with accounting teams, ensuring accuracy and timely completion each cycle.
- Coordinate state withholding and unemployment insurance registrations for new employers and handle updates or closures as needed.
- Serve as a primary payroll contact for a large client base, providing clear, timely, and professional communication.
Requirements
- 5+ years of payroll experience, including multi-state processing and client-facing interaction.
- Hands-on experience registering and maintaining state withholding and unemployment accounts.
- Solid understanding of payroll tax filings (federal and state) and ability to identify and resolve filing discrepancies.
- Working knowledge of labor laws (final pay, overtime, exempt vs. nonexempt, wage theft prevention, etc.).
- Proven ability to manage complex client relationships with professionalism and confidence.
- Adaptability to work across multiple platforms (Gusto, ADP, Paychex, Justworks, Rippling, or similar).
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to compliance.
- Comfort in a remote, fast-paced, client-facing environment.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Career mapping
- Great benefits plan
- Profit-sharing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
multi-state payroll processingpayroll tax filingsdata migrationearnings setupdeductions managementbenefits administrationreconciliation of payroll journalsGL postingsstate withholding registrationunemployment insurance management
Soft skills
client-facing interactionprofessional communicationattention to detailadaptabilityrelationship managementproblem-solvingtimelinesscompliance commitmentconfidenceorganizational skills
