Position: Payroll Specialist
Location: Glendale, AZ (85009) Fully Onsite
Compensation: $70K-$80K
Are you passionate about precision, numbers, and making sure everyone gets paid accurately and on time? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your attention to detail and problem-solving skills make a real impact? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We’re looking for a Payroll Specialist to join out client and play a key role in ensuring smooth and accurate payroll processing for their valued employees. This is more than just a jobit’s a chance to be part of a collaborative, supportive team that values integrity, accuracy, and continuous improvement with a runway for career progression and leadership in the very near future!
Key Responsibilities:
- Process weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and year-end payroll for exempt and non-exempt employees.
- Review timesheets and wage computations to identify and resolve discrepancies
- Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments
- Issue accurate and timely paychecks and pay stubs
- Calculate wages, deductions, and retroactive pay adjustments
- Input RO’s weekly and generate monthly commission checks
- Track employee leave (vacation, personal, sick time)
- Assign hours to appropriate jobs/ROs and adjust wage rates as needed
- Calculate and submit payroll and unemployment taxes to federal and state agencies
- Prepare and submit weekly certified payroll reports; maintain job logs
- Generate and distribute annual W-2 forms
- Provide guidance to employees and managers on payroll, tax, benefits, and garnishments
- Support Payroll Supervisor with benefits reports and general ledger reconciliations
- Stay current on payroll-related laws and regulations
- Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal requirements (e.g., workers comp, garnishments)
- Interpret payroll policies and resolve employee inquiries
- 3+ years of hands-on payroll processing experience
- Proficiency in Certified Payroll a plus
- Strong attention to detail and demonstrated accuracy in processing/reporting
- Experience managing payroll for a workforce of approximately 101 to 500 employees.
- Working knowledge of multi-state payroll practices, including tax withholding and compliance requirements.
*This is an on-site role and does not allow hybrid or remote flexibility*
