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Processing Payroll Specialist

$25 - $28 per hour
Full-time

Confidential

The Processing Payroll Specialist is responsible for employee wage distribution, timesheet verification, deductions, and tax compliance, preparing, calculating, and maintaining complex payroll compensation, timekeeping, and attendance records within the Payroll Dept. Collects, verifies, and stores organizational payroll data. Inputs changes, reconciles payroll-related general ledger and prepares reports or statements summarizing payroll-related accounts.

Duties

  • Assist with responses to internal and external audits, labor compliance reviews, and government agency inquiries.
  • Perform payroll reconciliations related to earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments.
  • Review payroll data and audit employee transactions within UKG.
  • Prepare payroll tax filings, manage year-end W-2/T4 processing, and assist with internal or external audit.
  • Process weekly multi-state payroll for 3,000+ employees.
  • Process full-cycle payroll transactions, termination payouts, prevailing wage.
  • Review timesheets, leave balances (vacation, sick, personal), and wage adjustments before finalizing pay runs

Required Qualifications

  • 1-4 years of payroll experience.
  • Experience Processing full-cycle Payroll.
  • High attention to detail, strict discretion with confidential compensation data, analytical problem-solving skills.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED required.
  • Familiarity with prevailing wage classifications, fringe benefit calculations, apprenticeship requirements, and labor compliance reporting.

The starting hourly pay for this role is between USD $25 - $28 /Hr. The actual pay is dependent upon many factors, such as location, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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