Senior Payroll Analyst

Position: Senior Payroll Analyst

Location: Hybrid - onsite 2 days per week in Denver, CO; Raleigh, NC; or Charlotte, NC 27601.

Duration: 6 Months (Potential Temp-to-Hire for the right candidate)

Job type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Pay rate: $35.00-$35.00/Hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our Clients it is an American publicly traded corporation deals with business are financial information and analytics, which helps investors pinpoint global opportunities.

Job Description:

Responsibilities and Impact:

• Support processing and disbursement of payrolls on time with a high degree of accuracy.
• Plan, coordinate, and assist with payroll across North America and ensure that payroll cycles and deadlines are adhered to by all parties involved in the payroll cycle.
• Focus is on handling payrolls for exempt and non-exempt employees paid on a semi-monthly and weekly basis.
• Responsible for thorough review and analysis, accurate and timely processing of monthly payroll in accordance with company policies and local regulatory standards, including liaising with payroll vendor where applicable.
• Partner with team members and payroll vendor to ensure accurate and timely filing and payment of statutory payroll withholding taxes to relevant government authorities.
• Partner with team members and payroll vendor to ensure accurate and timely processing of involuntary withholding orders.
• Partner with internal teams and payroll vendor to ensure that employee income from stock option and share grants is correctly computed and reported in accordance with local regulatory standards.
• Partner with internal teams and payroll vendor to support accurate and timely processing of payroll related journal entries and accruals.
• Work with payroll vendor to support issuance of employee income tax reporting statements.
• Resolve escalations by providing root cause analysis and corrective action for complex or non-routine situations.
• Review and resolve employee pay-related inquiries.
• Keep abreast of payroll regulatory changes, review and analyze tax and legal regulations (including complex issues such as stock-based compensation).
• Identify issues/implications affecting company and employees; as needed, work with Corporate Legal, Tax, and People areas as well as payroll vendor to ensure resolutions.
• Consistently review existing work practices and recommend areas for improvement including workflows, payroll vendor competencies, analysis & planning, regulatory compliance, etc.
• Assist in implementation of improvements/enhancements, including working independently with all stakeholders, and achieve high levels of efficiency, accuracy, and compliance.
• Assist with responses to all payroll related audits, both internal and external.

What we’re looking for:

Basic Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of relevant professional experience: Prior payroll experience required with a preference for experience in a multi-national company; processing payroll for at least 5000 employees or more.
• Highly organized and capable of working under time constraints to meet tight deadlines
• Extensive knowledge of Excel, including use of pivot tables
• Ability to accurately manipulate and move data to and from a variety of sources across multiple platforms.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• This role will require working East Time hours.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Diploma or Degree in Human Resource Management or Business or Accountancy.
• Experience with Workday
• CPP certification a plus

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.