Payroll Consultant

Key Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle payroll processing, including regular and off-cycle payrolls, incentive payments, and employee separations.
• Maintain payroll accuracy through audits, reconciliations, and established quality control procedures.
• Process employee data changes including new hires, terminations, compensation updates, tax elections, garnishments, and benefit deductions.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Respond to employee payroll inquiries and resolve payroll-related issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Partner with payroll system providers to support reporting, configuration changes, upgrades, and process improvements.
• Prepare payroll reconciliations and support month-end and year-end close activities.
• Review and resolve payroll-related variances and collaborate with accounting teams to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Partner with finance stakeholders on headcount reporting, labor forecasting, accruals, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory reporting, retirement plan compliance, and year-end tax reporting requirements.
• Administer HR-related vendor payments and assist with budget monitoring and expense tracking.

Benefits & HR Operations

• Administer employee benefit programs, including enrollments, changes, terminations, reconciliations, and vendor management.
• Manage retirement plan administration, employee contributions, employer matching, and census reporting.
• Coordinate annual open enrollment activities and employee communications.
• Administer leave of absence programs and paid time off tracking in compliance with applicable regulations.
• Maintain employee records and HRIS data integrity while generating reports and workforce analytics as needed.
• Support onboarding, employee relations inquiries, compliance initiatives, compensation cycles, and other departmental projects.