Senior Payroll Processing Analyst

Job Responsibilities

• Processes and submits semimonthly and weekly payrolls to ADP for all employees.
• Maintains knowledge of tax rules and regulations governing payroll administration practices and ensures compliance with external and internal policies, as well as applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
• Maintains payroll operations by consistently following policies and procedures; auditing current records and updating/reporting needed changes.
• Analyzes and confirms pay adjustments.
• Reviews and balances payroll prior to final transmission.
• Reviews and imports employee timecards from Time and Attendance system into ADP Payroll System.
• Reviews the timesheet reports for accuracy, compliance, adjustments, and/or necessary approvals.
• Generates reports for actuals and accruals for vacation and personal time off.
• Sets up, processes, and maintains changes to an employee’s voluntary and involuntary deductions such as direct deposits, benefits, and garnishments.
• Reconciles and calculates payroll adjustments, issues check, and processes manual checks.
• Affords assistance to department managers and staff by answering payroll procedural questions, as well as researching and resolving payroll problems and discrepancies.
• Processes special payrolls including the annual bonus and year-end adjustment payrolls.
• Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
• Enters and updates employee data changes including setting up new hires into the Time and Attendance system.
• Maintains accurate payroll records and keeps records secure, organized, and filed away timely.
• Maintains and prepares various payroll reports for managers, accounting, and HR team.
• Answers inquiries and requests for employment wage verifications (e.g. banks, WC carriers, etc.).
• Processes all taxable fringe benefits along with all other year-end entries; reviews and assists in the distribution of W-2s.
• Serves as the lead primary administrator of the Time and Attendance system and handles all system related issues directly with technical team.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Business Administration; preferred.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Knowledge of payroll, garnishments, and benefits distribution.
• 5+ years processing payroll for a large organization.
• Good research and analysis skills.
• Multi-tasking abilities.
• Aviation industry preferred.
• Excellent excel knowledge.