Payroll Specialist

This is a Full Time Job

Job Title: Payroll Team Services Specialist

Department: Corporate Finance

Reporting To: Manager, Payroll and Team Services

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote - this person must work EST hours regardless of location

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:
• Process multi state payroll for over 500 employees, including union employees across multiple unions in Workday.
• Perform calculations in overtime, PTO, and union contributions.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reports that include summaries of earnings, tax deductions and union dues for team audits, finance team and managers requests.
• Resolve payroll discrepancies and respond timely to employee queries.
• Provide initial resolution support and ensure prompt, accurate, and consistent handling of inquiries via Zendesk ticketing system, virtual meetings, and face-to-face engagement.
• Process employee data changes related to payroll, benefits, PTO, employment verifications, job changes, salary, terminations, org-level changes, and HR transactions.
• Provide aid and guidance to employees seeking to update personal information in the HRIS system, currently Workday.
• Adhere to ATS Service Level Agreement (SLA) to ensure optimal customer service is consistently achieved.
• Own market documents that support all changes (Contracts, CBAs, Offer Letters, Notification Forms, etc.) to employee data and payroll.
• Partner with Subject Matter Experts (SME) to resolve specific inquiries that require further research and knowledge.
• Participates in team projects and identifies process improvement opportunities.

Qualifications

More About You:

A well-rounded team player that can work independently and in group settings on a day to day basis. Someone who is great at multitasking, meeting deadlines, and open to gaining more payroll experience.

Required:
• 2 years of Payroll or data processing work experience.
• 2 year of Workday experience.
• 1 year of customer service related work experience.
• 1 year of previous experience working with multiple unions, preferably in the media industry (specifically AFTRA, WGA, IBEW).
• Previous experience with multi state payroll.
• Previous experience with employee data or HRIS functions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Shows integrity, discretion, and sensitivity to confidential data.
• Solution-oriented, organized, and highly attentive.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and constantly changing environment.
• Ability to research, interpret, and reconcile data.
• Ability to keep stakeholders informed.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field.

Preferred:
• Google Suite.

Important Notes:

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