Sr. Payroll Specialist
Role Overview
The Senior Payroll Specialist is responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely processing of multi-state payroll while maintaining compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements. This role serves as a trusted resource for employees, leaders, and business partners by providing payroll expertise, resolving complex issues, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a customer-focused approach to deliver exceptional payroll operations and customer service.
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Position Summary -
The Senior Payroll Specialist is responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely processing of multi-state payroll while maintaining compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements. This role serves as a trusted resource for employees, leaders, and business partners by providing payroll expertise, resolving complex issues, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a customer-focused approach to deliver exceptional payroll operations and customer service.
Key Responsibilities -
- Processes multi-state payrolls timely and accurately by coordinating with HR to ensure accurate processing and maintenance of data while maintaining a high level of confidentiality
- Processes and maintains payroll records including but not limited to new hire information, payroll changes, fringe benefit disbursements in accordance with company policy, regulatory requirements, and governmental requirements
- Provides high level of customer service to all levels of the organization by troubleshooting and escalating payroll and timekeeping issues
- Enrolls all newly hired hourly employees in the timekeeping system and trains timecard approvers in reviewing and approving timecards within payroll deadlines
- Prepares, reviews and analyzes reports to maintain documentation of payroll activities and conducts appropriate audits to ensure data integrity
- Oversees system entries and general ledger activity related to payroll functions
- Identifies and implements system and process improvements and documents workflow and work procedures
- Advises Finance leadership on complex payroll issues
- Provides guidance to employees regarding state and federal tax issues and calculations
- May mentor and train other team members
- Other duties as assigned
Education -
Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline
Experience
6+ years of experience in payroll and timekeeping or accounting and finance
Required Skills -
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Microsoft Office Suite, Intermediate Excel
- ADP Payroll software
- Accounting principles
- Problem solving and lean methodologies
- Tax principles
- Confidentiality
Physical Requirement
- Move or lift objects up to 25 pounds.
- frequent (>75%) stationary position (standing or sitting) while utilizing digital.
- displays
- Frequent (>75%) fine manipulation using hands and fingers (typing, opening,
- writing, clicking, paper sorting, etc.)
Working Environment
Onsite: Office environment with assigned workstation
Remote positions only: Home office environment with minimum distractions
More about Evergen
Evergen provides customers across a diverse set of market segments with leading-edge expertise, scale, and flexibility across end-to-end services including design, development, regulatory support, verification and validation, manufacturing, and supply chain management. Evergen is rooted in a steadfast commitment to quality, integrity, and patient safety with a focus on five key values:
Accountable: We own our actions and decisions.
Agile: We embrace change to stay ahead of the curve and evolve to drive innovation and growth.
Growth Mindset: We embrace challenges as opportunities for continuous learning.
Customer-Centric: We prioritize customers at every touch point.
Inclusive: We thrive on the richness of our diversity and ensure every voice is heard, respected, and celebrated.
At Evergen, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where we embrace the richness of our diversity and ensure that every voice is heard, respected, and celebrated. We believe that by embracing diversity and promoting inclusivity, we not only uphold our values but also strengthen our position as the CDMO of Choice in regenerative medicine solutions. We recognize that cultivating a growth mindset is essential to our success, and we are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement in our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Through accountability and action, we strive to create an environment where individuals can thrive, innovate, and contribute their unique perspectives to drive our collective success.
Montagu Private Equity (“Montagu”), a leading European private equity firm, acquired RTI in 2020 and has supported the transformation of the company to its next level of potential.
About Evergen
Evergen is a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) pushing the boundaries of innovation and tissue engineering to meet patient needs in regenerative medicine.
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