Payroll Specialist (with SAP experience)

Job Description

Job Description

Payroll Specialist with SAP experience

3-6 month contract with strong potential for direct-hire conversion based on performance and business needs.

We are seeking an experienced  Payroll Specialist with hands-on  SAP Payroll expertise to join our team on a temp-to-hire contract basis. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end payroll processing, system troubleshooting, compliance adherence, and optimizing payroll workflows within SAP.

Key Responsibilities

• Payroll Processing: Process multi-state, high-volume hourly and salaried payrolls accurately and on schedule using SAP Payroll.
• SAP System Operations: Execute payroll runs, off-cycle payments, retroactive pay adjustments, and tax recalculations within SAP.
• Troubleshooting & Auditing: Reconcile payroll discrepancies, perform pre- and post-payroll audits, and resolve SAP system errors or payroll variances.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure full compliance with federal, state, and local payroll taxes, wage and hour laws, and garnishment rules. Generate payroll and tax reports out of SAP.
• Process Improvement: Identify gaps or inefficiencies in existing payroll workflows and collaborate with HR/IT teams to streamline SAP payroll configuration and procedures.
• Vendor & Employee Support: Serve as the primary point of contact for complex payroll inquiries from employees, management, and third-party vendors.

Key Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years of dedicated payroll experience, ideally in a fast-paced or corporate environment.
• Tax & Compliance Knowledge: Strong understanding of multi-state payroll, tax withholdings, garnishments, and FLSA guidelines.
• Data Management: High level of proficiency in MS Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables) for data reconciliation.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical abilities to troubleshoot payroll errors and system configuration issues.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a client-service mindset.

Outstanding organization within manufacturing. Service the aerospace industry as one of the experts in their field. Great culture, people and environment.

Company Description

Outstanding organization within manufacturing. Service the aerospace industry as one of the experts in their field. Great culture, people and environment.