Payroll Specialist

Location: De Pere, WI | Department: Accounting | Reports To: Payroll Manager

About the Role

Join the PTI team and play an important role in ensuring our professional drivers are paid accurately and on time each week. This role combines attention to detail, problem-solving, and strong communication as you partner with Operations, support driver payroll questions, and help keep payroll processes running smoothly in a fast-paced transportation environment.

Responsibilities

• Process accurate weekly activity-based payroll for 850+ professional drivers across multiple states, including W-2 and 1099 pay groups.
• Review, validate, and reconcile payroll inputs from UKG, TMW, and related operational workflows.
• Partner with Operations to resolve exceptions, clarify driver activity, and support timely payroll corrections.
• Respond to driver payroll questions promptly and professionally by phone, email, and in-person conversation.
• Use sound judgment to research issues, make timely decisions, and escalate concerns when needed.
• Maintain clear payroll process documentation and support strong internal controls.
• Build expertise in UKG to support payroll processing, system administration, reporting, and process improvement.
• Collaborate with leadership on new or changing pay packages as the business evolves.
• Process garnishments, tax levies, child support orders, and related payroll deductions.
• Support compliance with applicable federal, state, and local payroll, tax, and wage and hour requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum of an associate degree in business or a related field required.
• UKG and/or TMW experience preferred.
• Driver payroll, multi-state payroll, or transportation industry experience preferred.
• Payroll certification preferred.
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, formulas, reconciliations, and data review.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear, professional communication skills with the ability to explain payroll information to drivers and internal partners.
• Comfortable presenting payroll information during weekly driver orientation.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and ability to handle confidential information.
• Working knowledge of tax, garnishment, and federal/state wage and hour requirements.

About the Company

At Paper Transport, we’re not just building careers, we’re building community. As a Dedicated Transportation Partner of the Green Bay Packers, we bring the same passion, teamwork, and commitment to excellence on the road as the Packers do on the field. Join a team that’s driving forward with purpose, pride, and a winning spirit.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Frequently required to sit, stand, talk, and hear.
• Constantly required to use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Information included in this job description does not necessarily represent a complete list of responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions for the job. While this is intended to accurately reflect the current role, management reserves the right to revise the job or require other duties as circumstances change.