Payroll Specialist

About the role

The P J Dick-Trumbull-Lindy Group family of construction companies seeks to hire a Payroll Specialist to join our fast-paced, collaborative Accounting team at our North Shore corporate headquarters. As an employee of the Family of Companies, you'll be part of a team whose core values are Safety, Quality, Integrity, Family, and Community. As a general contractor, our companies build for the communities in which we live and work. Every employee — from accounting to our field personnel — contributes to building projects that connect people and places.

Benefits

• Consistently ranked among the Top 100 Builders nationally by Engineering News-Record
• Competitive pay and eligible for annual performance bonus
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays
• 401(k) with company match and profit sharing
• Free employee parking

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, support and review recurring payroll and related processes for completeness and accuracy.
• Review new employee information loaded into the accounting software from the on-boarding systems for accuracy; make edits and improvements to the processes as needed.
• Process certain confidential payrolls; train on all confidential payrolls in case backup is needed.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state and local regulatory rulings impacting payroll through actual set-up and filings.
• Reconcile general ledger payroll accounts as part of quarterly financial statement preparation.
• Prepare and/or coordinate the execution of special reports with external consultants to improve payroll processes; then train on related best practices.
• Respond to employees' questions; resolving issues including pay stub access and related issues.
• Perform additional assignments per direction of supervisor(s).

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Two (2) years payroll experience
• Prior work with construction firm, CMiC and/or ADP Tax Compliance a plus
• Good written and verbal communication skills essential
• Excellent skills using MS Excel and Word

Position is non-exempt under FLSA.