Payroll Analyst

TEMPorary Staff Job posting

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Senior Payroll Analyst

Created/Revised Date: September 11, 2026

Anticipated Closing Date: October 11, 2026

Job Title: Senior Payroll Analyst

Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ | Onsite

Shift: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Hourly Pay Range and Other Compensation:
The hourly rate for this position is expected to be between $43.00-$56.00 per hour, depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Employment Type: Full-Time | Temporary

Assignment Length: Approximately 6 months with potential for extension or conversion based on business needs, performance, and headcount availability.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Position Summary

Eastridge Workforce Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior Payroll Analyst to support a high-volume, multi-state payroll operation. This is a hands-on role for a payroll professional experienced with complex payroll transactions, reconciliations, tax compliance, audits, and issue resolution.

Essential Functions

• Process and review high-volume, multi-state payroll for salaried and hourly employees.
• Manage reversals, voids, retroactive payments, overpayments, repayments, manual checks, and off-cycle payrolls.
• Review payroll inputs, adjustments, exception reports, and employee calculations for accuracy.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex payroll, tax, and employee pay issues.
• Perform payroll, tax, benefits, 401(k), deductions, garnishments, bank funding, and general ledger reconciliations.
• Audit payroll data and investigate discrepancies and data integrity issues.
• Support federal, state, and local payroll tax compliance.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end payroll activities.
• Partner with HR, Benefits, Finance, Accounting, Compensation, and external vendors.
• Assist with payroll system testing, upgrades, automation, and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Human Resources, or related field.
• 5-8+ years of U.S. payroll experience, preferably in a high-volume, multi-state environment.
• Strong experience with complex payroll adjustments, reversals, voids, overpayments, and prior-period corrections.
• Hands-on payroll tax and reconciliation experience.
• UKG Pro experience strongly preferred.
• ADP SmartCompliance experience preferred.
• Intermediate-to-advanced Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, formulas, filtering, and large data sets.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to work onsite five days per week in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Benefits:

Eastridge Workforce Solutions offers the following benefits, subject to applicable eligibility requirements. Use this link to learn more about benefits available to Eastridge's temporary employees. Due to the varying length(s) of temporary assignments, Eastridge Workforce Solutions' Temporary Staff are not eligible for paid time off, unless required by applicable state law in which the position is based. However, from time to time Eastridge's clients may offer additional benefits to Eastridge employees while on assignment. Information about those benefits will be communicated when applicable.


Disclaimer: The compensation and benefits information in this posting represents Eastridge's good faith and reasonable estimate of what it might pay for this position. Eastridge reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.


Equal Opportunity Employer :

Eastridge Workforce Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity, and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Eastridge Workforce Solutions also prohibits harassment or retaliation of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Please note that Eastridge is unable to provide visa sponsorship to applicants.

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