Sr Payroll Analyst

Purpose: The Senior Payroll Project Analyst provides functional and payroll project support in resolving payroll and timekeeping issues, providing reporting, and analyzing data.

Essential Functions:

• Examines each payroll run for accuracy, efficiency, and compliance; prepares summary report to the Director of Payroll on any apparent improvement opportunities
• Provides ongoing functional support to the Payroll team; assists with TIPS projects such as QSR, Casual Dine, Choice Programs, Money Network, and ADP Wisely
• Analyzes data in support of HR administration and projects; provides technical support across various systems and vendors, as well as training to functional users
• Intercepts inquiries from field Operations, People & Culture, and team members; provides knowledge and solutions to identify and resolve issues
• Assists with various system projects, new system implementations, and system optimizations
• Performs necessary system configurations that result from service consolidations and service changes
• Analyzes the payroll process and its efficiency over time, identifies areas of opportunity, and presents improvement plans; if improvement plans are considered viable, may be tasked with their implementation
• Prepares reports highlighting performance against targets and any identified issues, as well as trending payroll performance over time to encourage continuous improvement, including suggestions for long-term enhancements to the process
• Ensures compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements, including tax laws, wage and hour laws and other payroll-related regulations
• Verifies that work records have been captured correctly and completely; checks that all the performed work is a true reflection of the entered work records
• Validates bonuses, overtime, expense claims, or other ad hoc remuneration
• Verifies wage and salary data for errors/inconsistencies and highlights issues
• Inspects mistakes and anomalies to determine whether they are systemic or resulting from faulty data input; flags systemic failures and liaises with the Director of Payroll to rectify them
• Performs regular spot checks to ensure deductions are accurate for each payroll run
• Audits the deductions process to determine and rectify the root cause of errors
• Ensures payroll information updates such as promotions, salary band revisions, or annual salary increases, are entered into the HRMS by payroll staff; checks for accuracy

Reporting Relationship: The Senior Payroll Analyst reports directly to the Director of Payroll

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:

• Education and Experience: The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 3 years:
  • In a technical role: Requires 3-5 years of payroll experience 
    • A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 2 of the 3-year requirement.
    • An MBA or a master’s level degree in a program related to the functional area can count for an additional 1 years of 3-year requirement
  • In the industry: 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience
• Specialized Training:
  • Knowledge of state, local, and federal tax regulations, as well as wage and hour regulations and laws preferred
  • Knowledge of Canadian federal and provincial laws and regulations preferred
• Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits:
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
  • Preferred experience with PeopleSoft Success Factors, and ADP
  • Analytical mindset and keen eye for detail
  • Business acumen and also has the mindset required to understand the long-term implications of payroll planning and to advance the organization’s goals
  • Demonstrated history of understanding the needs of the business, stakeholders, the employee population and individual circumstances
  • Demonstrated history of creating and maintaining positive work environments to achieve common goals
     
• Location: This position is based at the North America Support Center in Bethesda, MD