Payroll Analyst

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $80k - $84k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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Business Wire

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1961

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

Media • Public Relations • Marketing

Business Wire is a trusted and experienced newswire service that offers public relations and investor relations solutions. The company provides press release distribution, media targeting, and analytics services to help organizations connect with their target audiences. With multimedia capabilities and extensive reach to over 100,000 media outlets and 200+ industry and trade categories worldwide, Business Wire ensures that news is delivered effectively to the right channels. It also offers resources such as case studies, webinars, and educational content to keep industry professionals informed about the latest trends. Additionally, Business Wire supports compliance and corporate social responsibility initiatives through comprehensive disclosure and filing services.

📋 Description

• Process end-to-end U.S. payroll and assist with international payroll activities. • Analyze payroll data, investigate root causes of discrepancies, and resolve issues within established timelines. • Review and validate earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, tax levies, and one-time payments. • Perform payroll reconciliations, including gross-to-net, payroll tax, and time-to-payroll reconciliations. • Manage off-cycle payrolls, payroll adjustments, and employee terminations, including final pay compliance. • Meet payroll deadlines by following payroll calendars, checklists, and sign-off procedures. • Support federal, state, and local payroll tax and wage-and-hour compliance. • Support quarterly and year-end activities, including W-2 processing, audits, and regulatory reporting. • Maintain payroll documentation and records for internal and external audits. • Administer and support Workday Payroll and Time Tracking, including processing, time entry, approvals, and time calculation rules. • Configure, test, troubleshoot, and enhance Workday Payroll and Time Tracking under Change Management procedures. • Maintain year-to-date earnings, exception, audit, and other payroll/timekeeping reports. • Partner with HRIS and the Payroll Manager on Workday enhancements, testing, and releases. • Monitor, audit, and reconcile timekeeping data. • Respond to employee and manager payroll inquiries and provide customer service. • Serve as backup contact for the allotment inbox. • Identify process improvement and automation opportunities. • Develop payroll SOPs and process documentation to support consistency and cross-training. • Participate in cross-functional projects and perform additional duties assigned by the Payroll Manager or Corporate Accounting Team Lead.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or related field preferred. • 5+ years of progressive payroll experience and 3+ years with Workday payroll modules. • Strong expertise in U.S. payroll tax compliance. • Expert-level Microsoft Excel skills, including advanced PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and database creation. • Strong report writing and data analysis skills. • Proven ability to manage complexity in a global payroll environment with attention to detail and accuracy. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with commitment to confidentiality and integrity. • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, global workplace and build strong cross-cultural partnerships. • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to work remotely • Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment • $100 monthly fitness allotment • Tuition reimbursement program • Enhanced mental health resources • 401(k) plan with generous company match • Annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance) • PTO • Floating Holidays • Wellness Day Off • Birthday Day Off