Payroll Expert

Payroll Expert

United States

(Hybrid)

Family Description

Human Resources (HR) comprises advice, services, and solutions in the areas of human resources management (e.g. total rewards, learning, talent acquisition & development, mobility) and organisation (e.g. leadership, organisational development, diversity).

Subfamily Description

Service Delivery (SDL) contains the managing of operation of service delivery to employees and managers and the monitoring of service delivery operations, technology, transaction processes, and call centre efficiency. Also comprises the establishment of standards and procedures for handling employee questions, transactions, and administration of human resource programmes.

Your responsibilities

As a Payroll Expert, you will assist the payroll cluster lead as a senior role within the payroll team in providing a professional and responsive payroll service to customers both internally and externally, as well as within the payroll organization, by adhering to defined service level agreements and statutory requirements, while ensuring payroll accuracy. Responsibilities include assisting with process controls, projects, providing expertise along with strong project management skills.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities include:

Gathering payroll related data, uploading/entering as necessary, and validating for accuracy all payroll maintenance resulting in pay implications and deliver payroll data for payroll processing to include but not limited to benefits, interfaces, W2C’s, time data, garnishments, supplemental payments, termination payments, etc.

Establishing and maintaining company and employee payroll records and procedures as it relates to time data, earnings, deductions and tax withholding, while maintaining accuracy of system data.

Accountable for quality and accuracy of own output, project management, and/or tax support.

Adhering to delivery deadline based on yearly payroll calendars.

Tracking changes in local legislation and initiating revision in local payroll processes according to the global approach.

Partnering with other HR Finance colleagues and employees to solve discrepancies and various company initiatives

Preparing and controls payroll related financial accruals (holiday, restructuring) and journal entries as needed.

Creating and controlling payroll related reports to authorities to include period based reporting and year-end tax filings.

Adhering to and performing SOX control related activities while validating accuracy and reporting deviations.

Key Responsibilities

• Payroll Processing & Execution
• Execute U.S. payroll processing activities for assigned pay groups, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Process complex payroll transactions including multi-state earnings, bonuses, retroactivity, terminations, off-cycle payrolls, and corrections.
• Validate payroll inputs and outputs, perform payroll audits, and comp