The Senior Payroll Analyst uses Workday to optimize payroll operations, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in processing through comprehensive auditing. The position serves as a resource, offering guidance and training to payroll specialists, while also collaborating with various teams to general reports and reconcile data including benefits and general ledger entries.
Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
Hybrid Remote working 2 days in office
$80,000-$88,000/year + Benefits
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to reconcile benefits data, including health insurance, retirement plans, and other employee benefits.
Develop and maintain reconciliation reports, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
Follow up on reconciliation findings and recommend process and compliance improvement.
Conduct a thorough review and audit of payroll functions to ensure timely processing. This includes verifying payroll funding, confirming governmental report accuracy, and updating company settings in Workday to align with company policies.
Provide guidance to team members regarding audit findings and avoiding future findings.
Prepare and distribute payroll-related reports to internal stakeholders, offering insights and analysis as needed.
Analyze payroll reports for discrepancies and errors, investigating and resolving issues promptly.
Initiate payroll processing quality assurance reviews.
Prepare, review, and analyze payroll processing and supporting documentation for internal audit.
Assist in identifying training issues and/or problem prone processes to ensure optimal efficiency and error-free operations.
Support Payroll Supervisor by scheduling and organizing training sessions for payroll specialists. This includes updates on payroll policies and procedures, state and federal regulations and tracking of progress on projects or departmental functions.
Work efficiently with payroll system vendor and consultants to resolve any issues in a timely manner, ensuring proper and accurate payroll processing.
Prepare audit schedules for both annual financial audit and audits conducted by funders, grantors or other audits such as the audit for the 5500 filing as assigned.
Update and maintain employee payroll allocation in payroll system and ensure payroll transactions are posted to the general ledgers accordingly.
Create journal entries for payroll funding, payroll taxes, and garnishment payments, making necessary re-classifications as needed.
Qualifications:
HS Diploma or GED
5+ years of payroll experience using Workday Payroll
Experience with payroll and benefits reconciliation and analysis
Proficient in MS Office
