Payroll Officer

The company:

From Mesa, our consultants travel to client sites across Arizona and beyond. Since 1990, the firm has done strategy and operations work for utilities and public agencies. Travel runs Monday through Thursday on most projects, with Fridays in the home office.

We are adding a Payroll Officer to our People Operations team. We need someone who catches errors before checks go out, not after. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will:

• Administer wage garnishments, child support orders and tax levies.
• Calculate final pay in line with state timing rules.
• Enter new hires, terminations, pay changes and deductions.
• Set up state and local tax accounts when employees move or new locations open.
• Audit benefit deductions against carrier invoices.
• Process biweekly and weekly payroll in ADP Workforce Now.
• Prepare payroll journal entries and accruals for accounting.

About you:

• 2-4 years of hands-on payroll processing, ideally multi-state.
• Experience with ADP, Paylocity, Paycom, UKG or Workday.
• Strong Excel for reconciliations.
• Discreet with confidential pay and personal data.
• Accurate and deadline-driven. Payroll does not slip.
• Comfortable with garnishments and tax withholding setup.

Also helpful:

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

Compensation and benefits:

• Annual rate review.
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Long-term engagement.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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