Senior Payroll Specialist, Bilingual – English/Spanish
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Allentown • Pennsylvania • United States
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About the role
- Prepare, audit, and process biweekly U.S., monthly Mexico & Brazil payroll for approximately 400 hourly and salaried employees.
- Review, validate, and reconcile timekeeping data from Workday Time Tracking.
- Perform pre- and post-payroll audits, including variance analysis and exception review.
- Process off-cycle payrolls, corrections, retroactive adjustments, and manual payments.
- Maintain payroll controls to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Ensure accurate setup and maintenance of federal, state, and local tax withholdings.
- Support quarterly and year-end payroll processes, including W-2, W-2c, and reconciliations.
- Ensure compliance with FLSA and applicable wage and hour regulations.
- Support payroll audits and prepare required documentation.
- Maintain payroll SOPs, process documentation, and checklists.
- Respond to employee payroll inquiries with professionalism and urgency.
- Partner with HR, Benefits, and Finance on payroll data and deadlines.
- Other job duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent professional experience is required.
- 5+ years of hands-on U.S. payroll processing experience.
- Experience with multi-state payroll processing.
- Strong experience with Workday payroll and timekeeping.
- Experience with Paylocity payroll is a plus.
- Experience supporting payrolls of 300–600 employees.
- Experience in a manufacturing or shift-based hourly workforce environment.
- Familiarity with payroll accounting, GL posting files, and reconciliations.
- FPC or CPP certification, or interest in pursuing certification.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookups.
- Experience doing payroll for LATAM Spanish or Portuguese proficiency desired.
Benefits
- As an equal opportunity employer, Fuller Technologies embraces diversity and equality by promoting an environment of inclusion.
- We encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply irrespective of sex, gender identity/expression, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
- The more diverse our employees are, the stronger our team is.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
U.S. payroll processingmulti-state payroll processingpayroll accountingGL posting filesreconciliationsadvanced Excelvariance analysisexception reviewoff-cycle payrollsmanual payments
Soft Skills
professionalismurgencycommunicationcollaboration
Certifications
FPCCPP