Senior Payroll Specialist

About the role

This fully onsite position in Avon, OH oversees incentive programs, accurately processes payroll, and calculates incentive compensation. The role reconciles accounts, analyzes financial data, and ensures payroll and incentive-related transactions comply with company policies and applicable regulations.

Responsibilities

• Process accurate and timely biweekly payroll for all employees.
• Review and validate timekeeping records, including hours worked, overtime, PTO, bonuses, commissions, and other forms of compensation.
• Process payroll adjustments, retroactive pay, off-cycle payrolls, manual checks, and final payments as needed.
• Review payroll registers, reports, and supporting documentation to ensure accuracy prior to payroll submission.
• Ensure all required deductions, taxes, and withholdings are accurately calculated and applied.
• Process employee changes, including new hires, terminations, salary changes, promotions, transfers, and other compensation adjustments.
• Independently manage multi-state payroll activities, including wage and overtime calculations, payroll deductions, paycheck advances, bonus payments, commissions, and separation payments.
• Ensure payroll practices comply with applicable federal, state, and local wage, hour, tax, and payroll regulations.
• Maintain current knowledge of payroll laws, regulations, and tax requirements affecting multi-state payroll.
• Assist with quarterly and annual payroll tax filings, reconciliations, and related compliance requirements.
• Support year-end payroll activities, including the preparation, review, and distribution of W-2s and other required tax forms.
• Monitor and process wage garnishments, child support orders, tax levies, and other legally required deductions.
• Calculate, validate, reconcile, and process bonus and incentive payments in accordance with established programs and guidelines.
• Reconcile employee benefit invoices against benefit enrollment systems to ensure accurate employee deductions, coverage, and employer contributions.
• Serve as a resource for employees and managers regarding payroll, compensation, deductions, timekeeping, and related policies.
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive employee, payroll, compensation, and financial information.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and four or more years of relevant payroll experience.
• Minimum of four years of payroll processing experience, preferably in a multi-state environment.
• Strong knowledge of payroll processes, wage and hour requirements, payroll taxes, deductions, benefits, and compliance.
• Experience with Paycor preferred.
• Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) or FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) preferred.

Pay

$70,000–$80,000 per year.