Payroll Partner
Summary
Title: | Payroll Partner |
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ID: | 1682 |
Graycor Company: | Graycor Services |
Location: | Oakbrook Terrace, IL |
Job Function: | Accounting |
Description
The Payroll Partner will oversee and execute the payroll function, ensuring pay for 225 salaried and approximately 500 hourly employees across four operating companies is processed on time, accurately, and in compliance with government regulations. We recently converted from a legacy payroll system to UKG Ready for payroll, timekeeping, and recordkeeping. This position will partner and collaborate with project leadership and managers to ensure our workforce is paid accurately and timely.
RESPONSIBILITIES
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Coordinate and process weekly and bi-weekly, union and non-union payroll, incorporating hourly and salaried wage payments including off-cycle checks, various non-standard payments (severance, relocation, bonuses, etc.), garnishments, and employee benefit and other deductions.
- Proactively and remotely partner with project leadership at construction project sites to ensure accurate and timely payroll updates including “Day 1” onboarding (planned and unplanned “quick hires”) of hourly employees, layoffs, terminations, and changes to pay rates.
- Own the daily true-up step with adjustments, including missed hourly employee time entry.
- Own the tracking/reporting process for timekeeping errors and coordinates with project leadership to resolve.
- Own the updating of retirement contribution percentages on employee profiles.
- Own the set-up and management of payroll cards and direct deposit
- Provide payroll detail as needed for corporate federal and state income tax compliance.
- Prepare payroll reports to managers, supervisors, and human resources as requested.
- Research and resolve payroll issues, and respond promptly to all payroll related questions from employees and managers.
- As needed, reconcile reports from UKG time entry (or client’s time entry system) against project management timesheets.
- Prepare and submit monthly union reports and payments to various unions.
- Responsible for maintaining union rates and fringes set up in UKG. As well as setting up new unions.
- Monitor and limit use of manual paper layoff/payoff checks as exceptions only.
- Perform other duties as directed.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
To be successful in this position, you will need:
- Associate’s degree in relevant discipline and/or payroll certification (Certified Payroll Professional or otherwise) preferred.
- Minimum of five years in-house, full-cycle payroll experience for salaried and hourly employees; knowledge of garnishments and benefits distribution.
- Strong attention to detail, analytical abilities, and sense of urgency when addressing issues and problems.
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication (written/verbal) skills; ability to collaborate with managers and supervisors on remote project sites.
- Multi-state payroll tax experience required.
- Union payroll experience strongly preferred.
- Previous experience with set-up and management of payroll cards preferred.
- Strong computer skills required (UKG Ready/Kronos payroll software, MS Excel, Outlook, Word, Access).
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information and situations.
This opening is closed and is no longer accepting applications