Payroll Specialist

Responsibilities

• Administer weekly payroll, ensuring pay is processed accurately and on schedule for both hourly and salaried staff.
• Collect, review, and validate employee time entries, with particular attention to submissions from field teams and job-site personnel.
• Communicate with employees and supervisors to resolve missing hours, incomplete timecards, and other payroll discrepancies before processing deadlines.
• Maintain payroll calendars and prioritize work to ensure key weekly processing milestones are completed on time.
• Provide administrative support in partnership with HR as responsibilities broaden beyond payroll into employee-related coordination.
• Handle payroll data and personnel information with a high degree of confidentiality, precision, and professionalism.

Requirements

• Prior experience processing payroll, preferably in construction, contractor, or other field-based environments with weekly cycles.
• Strong working knowledge of timecard review, payroll balancing, and resolving pay-related exceptions.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced setting while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
• Comfortable working independently and collaborating closely with accounting and HR teams.
• Experience supporting payroll reporting and tracking leave, time off, or related payroll adjustments.
• Background in full cycle payroll; experience with multi-state payroll or large employee populations is an advantage.

Qualifications

Highly organized, discreet, and comfortable working with recurring deadlines.

Skills

Payroll processing, timecard review, payroll balancing, confidentiality, precision, and professionalism.

Benefits

Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

N/A

Robert Half

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