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Senior Payroll Specialist

FormFactor
Oregon, USA
Full-time
Senior · 2–5 years experience
Remote
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Key Responsibilities:

  • Execute accurate biweekly payroll for all U.S. employees using ADP and UKG Pro, ensuring timely pay distribution and compliance with company policies and applicable regulations.
  • Process and maintain payroll transactions including new hires, terminations, compensation changes, bonuses, commissions, deductions, garnishments, and leave-related payroll impacts.
  • Assist in detailed pre- and post-payroll audits and reconcile payroll registers, timesheets, benefit deductions, tax withholdings and correct discrepancies.
  • Collaborate with Human Resources, Benefits, Stock Administration, Finance, and Timekeeping teams to validate payroll data and ensure accurate employee records.
  • Administer payroll-related activities for expatriate employees, including coordination of tax equalization, hypothetical tax deductions, shadow payroll requirements, and vendor-provided payroll adjustments.
  • Assist in process and validate equity compensation transactions, including Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) events, ensuring proper taxation, withholding, reporting, and payroll integration.
  • Support payroll tax compliance activities and assist with payroll audits, year-end processing, and regulatory reporting requirements.
  • Serve as a primary point of contact for employee payroll inquiries, resolving pay discrepancies, tax withholding questions, garnishments, and deductions in a timely and professional manner.
  • Maintain payroll procedures, standard operating procedures (SOPs), audit documentation, and process controls to ensure consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement.
  • Assist in payroll reports and provide payroll-related data and analysis to Finance, HR, and external auditors as requested.
  • Assist with payroll system testing, upgrades, implementations, and special projects.
  • JOB SKILLS

Technical Skills

  • Strong knowledge of U.S. payroll processing practices and payroll compliance requirements.
  • Experience administering payroll for expatriate employees, including coordination with external tax and payroll providers.
  • Working knowledge of RSU and ESPP taxation, payroll withholding requirements, and reporting.
  • Experience with ADP WFN payroll systems required.
  • Experience with UKG Pro and/or UKG Workforce Management preferred.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting functions.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and analytical problem-solving ability.
  • Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities, processes, and technologies.
  • Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills.
  • Performance Skills
  • Strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
  • Ability to gain cooperation and effectively collaborate across departments.
  • Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgment within established authority limits.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize assignments and manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive payroll and employee information.
  • Willing and able to work overtime as necessary to meet payroll deadlines, year-end requirements, and special project commitments.
  • Maintains high standards of professional, technical, and business conduct.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

  • Minimum of 2–5 years of payroll processing experience.
  • Experience processing multi-state payroll required.
  • ADP WFN payroll software experience required.
  • UKG Pro experience preferred.
  • Experience supporting expatriate payroll administration preferred.
  • Experience processing or supporting RSU and ESPP payroll transactions preferred.
  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. payroll processing practices and payroll compliance requirements.
  • Experience administering payroll for expatriate employees, including coordination with external tax and payroll providers.
  • Working knowledge of RSU and ESPP taxation, payroll withholding requirements, and reporting.
  • Experience with ADP WFN payroll systems required.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting functions.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and analytical problem-solving ability.
  • Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities, processes, and technologies.
  • Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills.
  • Performance Skills
  • Strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
  • Ability to gain cooperation and effectively collaborate across departments.
  • Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgment within established authority limits.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize assignments and manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive payroll and employee information.
  • Willing and able to work overtime as necessary to meet payroll deadlines, year-end requirements, and special project commitments.
  • Maintains high standards of professional, technical, and business conduct.
  • ADP Workforce Now, Analytical Problem Solving, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Confidentiality, Data Privacy, Detail-Oriented, Microsoft Excel, Payroll Processing, Payroll Reconciliation, Payroll Review
  • Minimum of 2 - 4 years of related experience | Required
  • $21.90 - $28.77
  • This role in Portland, Oregon pays between $21.90 and $28.77 per hour, depending on your experience, skills, and background. Pay may vary in other locations. We offer a full benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), and paid time off. You’ll also be eligible for quarterly profit-sharing bonuses and flexible spending or savings accounts.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
  • FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer. FormFactor complies with all national, state, and local laws that seek to promote equal opportunities for any applicant or employee without regard to age, race, color, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, military service, or any other legally protected characteristics. These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.
  • For roles that are designated as remote-eligible, employees cannot be located in: AL, AK, AR, DE, GA, HI, IL, IA, LA, ME, MD, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, WV, WI, WY. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. A role is remote-eligible only when it is listed as "Remote" in the job location.

Skills:

  • ADP Workforce Now, Analytical Problem Solving, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Confidentiality, Data Privacy, Detail-Oriented, Microsoft Excel, Payroll Processing, Payroll Reconciliation, Payroll Review
  • Education & Experience:
  • Minimum of 2 - 4 years of related experience | Required
  • Pay Range:
  • $21.90 - $28.77
  • Pay Range Explained:
  • This role in Portland, Oregon pays between $21.90 and $28.77 per hour, depending on your experience, skills, and background. Pay may vary in other locations. We offer a full benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), and paid time off. You’ll also be eligible for quarterly profit-sharing bonuses and flexible spending or savings accounts.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
  • FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer. FormFactor complies with all national, state, and local laws that seek to promote equal opportunities for any applicant or employee without regard to age, race, color, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, military service, or any other legally protected characteristics. These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.
  • For roles that are designated as remote-eligible, employees cannot be located in: AL, AK, AR, DE, GA, HI, IL, IA, LA, ME, MD, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, WV, WI, WY. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. A role is remote-eligible only when it is listed as "Remote" in the job location.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with UKG Pro and/or UKG Workforce Management preferred.
  • UKG Pro experience preferred.
  • Experience supporting expatriate payroll administration preferred.
  • Experience processing or supporting RSU and ESPP payroll transactions preferred.
  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification is a plus.

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