Payroll Specialist
Location: Hartford, CT
Schedule: Hybrid | Full-Time (2 DAYS WORK FROM HOME)
Compensation: $55,000–$65,000 plus comprehensive benefits
A growing, multi-location organization is seeking a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to support accurate, timely payroll processing in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. This position will handle high-volume weekly and biweekly payroll for 800+ employees across multiple entities.
Key Responsibilities
- Process high-volume weekly and biweekly payroll accurately and on time.
- Maintain payroll, timekeeping, accrual, and employee data within payroll systems.
- Process wage adjustments, retroactive pay calculations, PTO payouts, and final pay.
- Perform regular payroll audits to identify and correct discrepancies.
- Support payroll-related benefit deductions, withholdings, reporting, and reconciliations.
- Reconcile union billing and assist with union payroll administration.
- Respond to employee and management payroll questions with professionalism and discretion.
- Participate in payroll system enhancements, process-improvement efforts, acquisitions, and implementation projects.
- Ensure payroll practices remain aligned with company policy, wage-and-hour requirements, and applicable tax regulations.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of recent end-to-end payroll experience in a high-volume, multi-site environment.
- Recent hands-on experience with ADP Workforce Now required.
- Experience with UKG Workforce Ready is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with union payroll processing and collective bargaining agreements is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of payroll principles, wage-and-hour requirements, and tax regulations.
- Advanced Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, and data validation.
- Highly organized, analytical, and able to manage multiple deadlines.
- Ability to handle confidential information with sound judgment and discretion.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, service-focused approach.
- Experience using automation or AI tools to improve payroll processes is a plus.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Hybrid schedule with a stable, full-time payroll position.
- Competitive compensation and full benefits package.
- Opportunity to support a growing organization and contribute to meaningful payroll process improvements.
- Collaborative team environment with room for professional growth.
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