Payroll Administrator

Our clients include consumer packaged goods companies, health systems, automakers and retailers. Creative, strategy, media and analytics staff work together in dedicated account groups.

Job summary:

Maplebridge Communications uses ADP Workforce Now for payroll and timekeeping. You will own the process from timecard review to GL entry. The Payroll Administrator runs biweekly payroll for about 900 employees in 12 states, hourly and salaried. Remote within the US. The team meets in New York City once a quarter, travel covered. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll be doing:

• Prepare payroll journal entries and accruals for accounting.
• Review timecards for missing punches, overtime and PTO before each run.
• Enter new hires, terminations, pay changes and deductions.
• Run reports for 401(k) contributions, workers' compensation and census requests.
• Reconcile payroll registers to the general ledger each period.
• Administer wage garnishments, child support orders and tax levies.

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on payroll processing, ideally multi-state.
• Strong Excel for reconciliations.
• Accurate and deadline-driven. Payroll does not slip.
• Discreet with confidential pay and personal data.
• Working knowledge of FLSA, overtime rules and state wage laws.
• High school diploma required; associate or bachelor's degree preferred.

Preferred:

• Canadian payroll.
• Experience with a payroll system conversion.
• Union payroll or certified payroll for prevailing wage jobs.

Compensation: $73,000 to $95,000/year

Compensation and benefits:

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid time off.
• Employee assistance program.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Vision insurance.
• Life insurance.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

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Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Maplebridge Communications.