Job Details
Payroll Business Analyst
Duration: 12-month contract
Schedule: Hybrid - Thursday s onsite/remaining days remote
Location(s): Minneapolis, MN/Denver, CO
Interview Process: 1 Video Interview
Required Experience
- Workday, advanced MS Excel, and ServiceNow
- UKG preferred
- This is an analyst role
- Must have large/complex corporate payroll w/union payroll processing (not working with 3rd party payroll processing) experience
- Data analysis
- Working tickets for cases that are escalated
- Off-cycle payroll processing
Position Summary
- Provide expertise and lead projects to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing and financial reporting in a multi-state and multi-company environment.
- Research and resolve complex payroll and timekeeping issues.
- Provide payroll/timekeeping system support, including reporting, auditing, and testing.
- Ensure compliance with multiple bargaining agreements, Federal/State/local tax regulations, and Company policies.
- Partner with cross-functional teams and various business areas on payroll and system-related projects, interfaces, upgrades, and enhancements.
- Define payroll processes and internal controls and implement appropriate process improvements.
- To remain compliant and efficient, one must maintain current knowledge of tax laws and policies, interpret organizational impact, and implement required process and system changes.
Essential Responsibilities
- Responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing (regular, off-cycle, and annual) in accordance with all federal, state, and local regulations and tax standards, bargaining agreements, and company policies.
- Calculate and process complex and high-visibility transactions, including multi-state taxation adjustments, incentive taxation, retroactive adjustments, year-end tax reconciliations, and unique bargaining payouts.
- Research and analyze complex payroll issues, including reconciliations, overpayments, taxation, and adjustments.
- Provide technical payroll processing, calculation, and consulting expertise on business and technology issues that impact how/when employees are paid.
- Communicate research and analysis results to various audiences, including senior executives, timekeepers, employees, and external agencies and vendors.
- Provide support for timekeeping systems and payroll administrators, including training, managing system access, delivering reporting, supporting processes and procedures, researching issues, reconciling data with other systems, and leading special projects.
- Partner with HRIS, Supply Chain, and Finance to ensure all inbound, outbound, and core HRM systems are configured to be current and compliant with all federal, state, and local regulations as they perform all necessary timekeeping, pay, and taxation calculations and transactions.
We Offer:
- We offer our contractors medical, dental, vision, and direct primary care benefits and contribute towards each contractor s monthly health insurance premium. After six months of employment, they are also eligible to participate in our 401(k) plan.
- Our 401(k) plan is matched up to 4% and has 100% vesting immediately.
The Ash Group:
- About the right opportunities, integrity, professionalism, and responsiveness. That s what you can expect from The Ash Group.
- We understand that finding the right fit for you is so much more than a pattern matching your skills to a set of job requirements. That s why we take the time to listen and learn about you, your life and work styles, your goals, and your interests.
- We put that knowledge to work along with our expertise and connections to help you achieve better work and a better life. Success, flexibility, fast track. It can happen when you work with a firm that understands your strengths, goals, and the kind of position that meshes perfectly with them.
- We minimize your search time and maximize the quality of your work experience.
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