Payroll Analyst - Multi-State

6-month remote assignment • Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–5:00 pm CST • $38.88/hr

About the Role

The Payroll Analyst will support complex multi-state and high-volume payroll processing. This position ensures payroll accuracy, regulatory compliance, and provides expert-level data analysis and problem resolution using advanced payroll systems and tools. All work is performed remotely.

Responsibilities

• Process payroll for large, multi-state employee populations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws.
• Review and audit payroll data using ADP GlobalView, Excel, and related payroll systems.
• Utilize advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, data analysis) to manage and report payroll information.
• Troubleshoot and resolve payroll discrepancies, system issues, and data errors efficiently.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of employee payroll and sensitive HR data.
• Prepare payroll reports, analyze variances, and support audits as necessary.
• Communicate payroll policies, deadlines, and changes to internal stakeholders and answer employee inquiries.

Skills

• Deep understanding of payroll compliance regulations, standard concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Proven ability with payroll systems, especially ADP GlobalView; experience with SAP Payroll is a plus.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including VLOOKUP, SUMIF, IF statements, pivot tables, and complex statistical functions.
• Strong experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and validating complex data sets and formulas.
• Comfortable navigating multiple payroll, HR, and reporting tools (Excel, Word, PC-based applications).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field preferred; Associate’s degree with significant relevant payroll experience accepted.
• 4-5+ years of multi-state payroll processing experience in a large, automated environment (10,000+ employees).
• Demonstrated knowledge of end-to-end payroll processing and reporting in ADP GlobalView.
• Approachable, organized, and detail-oriented with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote setting.

Benefits

• Voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, and a legal plan.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year).
• Transit spending account.
• Paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan.