Payroll Analyst

Job Duties

• Perform payroll validation, audit checks, and issue resolution prior to payroll close, including off-cycle payroll activities.
• Administer time and attendance processes by maintaining, reviewing, validating, and troubleshooting timekeeping data.
• Partner with managers to drive timely and accurate timecard submission and approvals and resolve discrepancies related to hours, leave, and overtime.
• Provide customer-focused support to employees and managers by resolving payroll and timekeeping inquiries and escalating complex issues as needed.
• Support compliance with federal, state, and local wage and hour regulations, internal controls, and audit requirements.
• Assist with payroll reconciliations, year-end processing, deductions, garnishments, and other payroll-related programs.
• Identify and support continuous improvement initiatives, documentation, training, and system enhancements across payroll and timekeeping platforms.
• Process special pay and complex transactions, including gross-up calculations and adjustments for terminated employees.

Qualifications

• Associates or Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Business strongly desired. Years of previous experience can be substituted for parts of this requirement.
• 7 or more years of experience in payroll processing

Skills

• SAP Payroll experience is required
• WorkForce Software experience is a plus
• SAP SuccessFactors experience is a plus
• SAP configuration experience is a plus
• Microsoft Office Suite – Excel, Word, PowerPoint