Corporate Payroll Specialist x2

Corporate Payroll Specialist

Location: Smyrna, GA

Pay Rate: $27-28 per hour

Type: Contract to Hire

Company Overview

Our client is a private equity backed leader in industrial and infrastructure services, supporting large scale construction, maintenance, and refurbishment projects across North America. With safety as a core value, the organization is known for operational excellence, strong processes, and a collaborative workplace that values accountability and continuous improvement. This is a high visibility environment where payroll accuracy directly supports thousands of employees and operations nationwide.

Role Summary

The Corporate Payroll Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring accurate, timely payroll processing for a high volume, multi state workforce, including union populations. This position supports payroll operations end to end, identifying and resolving data issues, partnering with internal teams, and ensuring compliance with complex payroll requirements. The role offers hands on exposure to large scale payroll systems and opportunities to grow into audit and advanced payroll functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Process high volume payroll on a regular cycle, including union payroll schedules

• Review incoming payroll files, identify errors, and coordinate corrections with internal teams

• Manually key and adjust payroll data when system uploads identify exceptions

• Process payroll for complex jurisdictions, including California employees

• Calculate and apply garnishments accurately and in compliance with regulations

• Generate payroll reports, export and consolidate data in Excel, and perform data analysis using pivot tables and lookups

• Partner with offshore processing teams to ensure accurate payroll execution

• Support payroll auditing activities and ongoing process improvement initiatives

Key Requirements

• One to two plus years of hands on payroll processing experience in a high volume environment

• Experience supporting large employee populations across multiple states

• Strong Excel skills including pivot tables and advanced lookups
• Familiarity with payroll systems such as SAP Global View or workforce timekeeping platforms

• Ability to work accurately and efficiently in a fast paced, deadline driven environment

• Basic understanding of payroll compliance including garnishments and union payroll

• Strong attention to detail, problem solving ability, and communication skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SAP Global View strongly preferred

• Exposure to Dayforce or ADP payroll systems

• Union and construction payroll experience

• Certified Payroll Professional or coursework toward certification

Call to Action

If you are a payroll professional seeking stability, growth, and exposure to enterprise scale payroll operations, we encourage you to apply today. Submit your resume and contact information to The Intersect Group to be considered promptly.