Payroll Tax Specialist
Deel
C++Cloud
Senior Payroll Specialist
Woodard & Curran
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $64,000 - $75,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
C++ERP
About the role
- Ensure payroll-related transactions are processed in compliance with external and internal policies.
- Provide exceptional customer service to employees and internal stakeholders by responding to payroll-related inquiries with professionalism and accuracy.
- Partner effectively with HR, Benefits, and Finance teams to ensure alignment on payroll-related matters, including compensation changes, benefit deductions, and financial reporting.
- Oversee end-to-end biweekly payroll processing using Workday, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Calculate and process federal and state tax and social security withholdings, union dues, and other deductions, including insurance, benefits, 401(k) contributions, and company match.
- Review time-worked inputs for calculation, coding, or other errors.
- Maintain ongoing tax compliance with federal and state regulations.
- Create and monitor reports to identify potential problems or errors.
- Audit payroll information for accuracy.
- Reconcile payroll deposits, tax withholdings, wage garnishments, and voluntary deductions.
- Maintain and reconcile general ledger (GL) entries related to payroll, ensuring proper coding and financial integrity.
- Collaborate with Finance on payroll journal entries and month-end close activities.
- Lead and participate in problem-solving and special projects within the Payroll department.
- Test upgrades and new/existing configurations within Workday and the company ERP, ensuring payroll functionality is optimized.
- Participate in compensation review processes. Process stock and bonus payments.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of payroll experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Hands-on experience with Workday Payroll is required.
- Demonstrated experience with payroll-related GL posting and reconciliation.
- Bachelor’s degree in business or accounting preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong customer service skills with a commitment to providing a positive employee experience.
- Ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels of management.
- Ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality.
- Strong attention to detail and highly organized.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with various deadlines.
- Ability to adapt to changes in business conditions and environments.
- Professional dedication to quality and customer service.
