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Payroll Specialist
Contract: Duluth, Georgia, US
Salary Range: 29.00 - 30.00 | Per Hour
Job Code: 362371
End Date: 2025-05-30
Job Status: Expired
This Job is no longer accepting applications
Detailed Job Description:
Client Domain: Manufacturing
Job Title: Payroll Specialist
Location: Duluth, GA 30096 - Hybrid Role (Monday-Friday)
Duration:12 Months - (Extension/Conversion will be based on performance)
Pay Rate: $29.00-30.00/hr
Must have:
- Pay frequencies include weekly, bi-weekly, semimonthly, monthly, and special incentive payrolls assigned to multiple companies and in multiple states/provinces.
- Process accurate and timely payrolls for all employees.
- Process all payroll transactions and prepare file loads for hourly and salaried payrolls.
- Key direct deposit, tax, and deductions into the system for processing.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, local, and provincial tax laws.
- Resolves customer service issues and problems utilizing their individual expertise in payroll policies and laws.
- Responds to questions from employees and resolves discrepancies.
- Serves as the subject matter expert for US payroll-related issues.
- Maintains payroll records and databases.
- Follows all defined payroll SOX controls as defined in the payroll narrative.
- Provides analysis or works on projects assigned by their manager.
- Maintains time and attendance systems to ensure accurate data for payroll processing and reporting.
- Completes daily and weekly time analysis on each location.
- Analyze/research each variance to ensure that all hours are accurate.
- Works with the location to update/change time accordingly.
- Updates and maintains employee information.
- Pulls payroll times files and loads/submits them into PeopleSoft.
- Adheres to departmental and organizational schedules and deadlines for payroll
- Completes yearly uploads. Ex: vacation balances for each location.
- Compares gross wages in Peoplesoft to Workbrain or Kronos and completes functions in Excel to come up with a yearly vacation hourly rate.
- Review for any discrepancies.
- Ensures compliance with policies and procedures, contracts, and state and federal laws
Requirements:
- A bachelor's degree is preferred from an accredited university.
- FPC, CPP, or equivalent certification and/or experience, preferred
- 3-5 years of full-cycle payroll administration work experience which includes multiple provinces.
- Systems experience with various timekeeping and payroll software packages (PS & Kronos today - Workforce Solutions - future)
- Knowledge of payroll practices and HRIS system, including PeopleSoft
- Knowledgeable of applicable federal, state and local payroll laws and regulations
- Knowledge of Canadian payroll processing is required
- Excellent communication (verbal and written)
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and work under time constraints to meet critical deadlines
- Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective planning and organizational skills
- Good technical aptitude to learn new software systems with ease
- Knowledge and expertise of Excel functionality (formulas, linked spreadsheets, pivot tables, formatting reports in Excel, charts & graphs, etc.).
- Proficiency with payroll and timekeeping systems
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Advanced knowledge of payroll data and the ability to query and report on payroll data
- Ability to create training material and effectively deliver training
- Must be self-motivated and able to work in a team-oriented environment with an emphasis on total customer satisfaction.
Job Requirement
- HR
- Human resources
- HR generalist
- payroll
- Multi state payroll
- peoplesoft
- HRIS
Reach Out to a Recruiter
- Recruiter
- Phone
- Samrudhi Subnis
- samrudhi.subnis@collabera.com
- 8137717536
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