Senior Payroll Associate

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Description

This Might Be the Opportunity for You if you:

• Enjoy working independently, prioritizing your work, and performing multiple tasks at once.
• Numbers are your thing! You have strong analytical skills and love to put them to use.
• Have excellent time management, can think on your feet, and are able to make critical decisions
• Have excellent communication skills and can deal with challenges while maintaining a calm demeanor.
• Have excellent leadership and communication skills, including mentoring and developing staff.
• Have top-notch customer service skills and enjoy working with all types of people across all areas of the business.

A Little About Your Day: You will:

• Perform daily payroll operations including all data entry of necessary changes in hours, rates of pay, and employee demographics. Audits the input performed by the HR associate to ensure accuracy.
• Manage workflow to ensure all payroll transactions are processed accurately and timely.
• Prepare payment of monthly sales commissions, car allowances, etc.
• Process correct garnishments calculations for compliance with various agencies.
• Execute time and attendance processing and interface with payroll vendor.
• Oversee the review of employee timecards by the payroll associate for accuracy or issues and collaborates with other branch managers on resolving timecard conflicts.
• Updates ADP with 3rd Party Sick Payments.
• Process accurate and timely monthly and year-end reporting when necessary.
• Answer all inquiries for verification of employment.
• Audit employees in ADP, including new employees and changes, and adds additional information prior to transmission.
• Work with ADP Compliance to resolve tax issues with requesting tax agencies.
• Track and confirm refunds from ADP for direct deposit reversals and stopped payments.
• Assist managers and employees in understanding company policies on paid time off.
• Work with 401k Administrator (Fidelity) to resolve issues with uploads or employee records.
• Provide supervisors with instructions on enhancements within the time and attendance system to simplify the process.
• Create job aids upon request for managers and employees.
• Research and document the correct setup of employees in local tax jurisdictions based on lived-in and worked-in locations.
• Register company for new state or local jurisdictions as necessary.
• Participate in onboarding acquisitions by managing the import of new associates to ADP.
• Participate in weekly ADP calls for new setups, problem resolution, and requests.
• Work with Benefits Administrator to establish payments from the company to employees on leave of absence.

What You'll Need to Have:

• A high school degree.
• A college degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or other related fields.
• 5+ years of experience processing multi-state payrolls of 500+ employees.
Expertise in payroll systems, ADP Workforce strongly preferred.

We Can Offer You:

We value performance that exhibits a high sense of urgency, coupled with attention to detail and a strong customer service orientation! We also care about the welfare of our employees, which is why our salary and benefits are competitive. Colony's benefits include:

• Quarterly bonuses based upon performance.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD/LTD, Life Insurance (company paid!)
• 401k with a generous match
• HSA/FSA
• Competitive PTO and paid holidays
Generous discounts on the best products from leading industry vendors

Life at Colony:

Colony Hardware is the leading distributor of Tools, Equipment, Fasteners, Supplies, and Safety Products to commercial construction and industrial accounts throughout our markets. We service customers in the commercial and industrial industries through a network of 50 branches, 4 distribution centers, and 1,000 employees. At Colony, our people are our most valuable asset. Success as a Colony Associate means being reliable, conscientious, and passionate. With our direction centered on teamwork, every employee at Colony will not only find their work to be meaningful but will have the opportunity to grow alongside Colony, both professionally and personally. If you possess a will to win and would like to join a culture where integrity and collaboration are integral to success, apply to Colony Hardware today to join our growing family!

Colony's Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Colony Hardware Corporation is an equal-opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, religion, marital status, a victim of domestic violence, familial status, genetic predisposition or information, disability, Family and Medical Leave, military or veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.