Payroll & Benefits Specialist

The Payroll & Benefits Specialist administers all activities relating to the company payroll, benefits, and team member leaves.
Ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, along with managing all employee benefit programs.
The Payroll & Benefits Specialist will be a proactive member of the HR Team reporting to the Human Resources Manager.
Responsibilities: Review and import hours from Costpoint time & attendance module into ADP Workforce Now.
Process end-to-end multi-state biweekly payroll using ADP Workforce Now, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance with all applicable state and federal wage and hour laws.
Oversee payroll reporting, ensuring adherence to policy, generally accepted accounting principles, and federal, state, and IRS regulations.
Administer new state tax setups within ADP and maintain updates for existing states.
Oversee the annual W2 process, ensuring full compliance with government reporting requirements for payroll taxes, withholding, and employer contributions.
Serve as the subject matter expert to interpret federal and state regulatory requirements, resolving complex tax, withholding, garnishment, and wage/hour issues for payroll processing.
Serve as point of contact for team member inquiries related to payroll or benefits and address or resolve and discrepancies.
Manage benefit enrollments, terminations, changes, funding and ensure proper documentation and compliance.
Coordinate with finance team to review, reconcile and approve monthly benefit invoices.
Coordinate with third party administrators to manage disability and workers compensation claims according to the plan.
Administer COBRA enrollments and respond to and manage unemployment claims.
Manage interface between applicable systems of record to ensure accurate record-keeping and compliance with federal, state and local regulations.
Execute outbound interfaces with third party vendors.
Write, run and maintain reports and documentation related to payroll and benefits for internal review and external audits.
Plan and administer annual open enrollment period including preparation and distribution of materials, conducting meetings to communicate changes to employees, arranging for on-site representation by providers, and processing changes within deadlines.
Conduct and report results of audit to ensure all enrollments are accurate and that dependent information is correct for each team member, working closely with finance and holding company representatives to prepare for annual audits (payroll, benefits, 401k, etc.
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Work closely with other team members to develop and maintain standardized operating procedures.
Lead and contribute to ad-hoc projects as required.
Work Activities: Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Skills: Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Working Style: Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
Education and Experience: Degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration or related field or 5 years equivalent experience.
Proven experience in multi-state payroll and benefits administration.
Strong knowledge of ADP Workforce Now required.
Familiarity with Deltek Costpoint time and labor modules highly preferred.
CPP or CEBS certification a strong plus.
American With Disabilities Specifications – General Requirements of Employment Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear, taste or smell.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Specific vision abilities may be required by the job to include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to weather conditions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.