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Sr. Payroll Specialist

Location

United States

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

$72K - $85K / year

Seniority

Senior

No structured requirement data.

Job Description

Sr. Payroll Specialist

CNX

Role Description The Sr. Payroll Specialist plays a critical role in delivering accurate, timely, and compliant payroll for employees across the United States and Canada. In this role, you will serve as a trusted Workday Payroll subject matter expert, supporting end-to-end payroll operations, compliance, audits, reporting, system enhancements, and process improvements. This is an exciting opportunity for a payroll professional who thrives in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and enjoys solving complex payroll challenges while partnering across functions to improve processes and drive operational excellence. What you will do in this role - Process end-to-end bi-weekly and off-cycle payrolls for U.S. and Canadian employees, including hourly and salaried populations. - Review and validate payroll inputs such as time records, salary changes, new hires, terminations, leaves of absence, deductions, garnishments, and manual adjustments. - Support payroll activities involving regular pay, overtime, shift differentials, bonuses, commissions, severance, retroactive pay, equity-related compensation, and other special payments. - Review payroll totals and support accurate hand-off to Treasury and Accounting. - Ensure payroll data is prepared, validated, and transmitted accurately and on time to internal partners and external payroll providers. - Support manual checks, voids, stop payments, reversals, and reissues as needed. - Ensure compliance with applicable U.S. federal, state, and local payroll laws as well as Canadian federal and provincial payroll legislation. - Support payroll compliance activities related to tax withholding, garnishments, third-party remittances, pension and benefit deductions, and wage and hour requirements including FLSA. - Stay current on legislative and regulatory changes impacting payroll in the U.S. and Canada and help implement required process or system updates. - Support year-end payroll activities, including reporting and filings such as W-2s, W-2Cs, T4s, T4A, and RL1s, where applicable. - Perform pre-payroll and post-payroll audits to validate payroll results, deductions, tax treatment, and gross-to-net accuracy. - Investigate payroll variances, identify root causes, and resolve discrepancies before payroll finalization and financial close. - Serve as a Workday Payroll SME for North American payroll operations, supporting system integrity, testing, validation, and payroll-related changes. - Partner with HRIS, Tax, Finance, and vendors on system enhancements, upgrades, integrations, issue resolution, and testing cycles. - Run standard and ad hoc payroll reports in Workday and help ensure data accuracy across payroll, timekeeping, and related interfaces. - Support payroll processing for equity-based compensation transactions, including restricted stock, stock options, and employee stock purchase plan activity. - Respond to payroll escalations with professionalism, accuracy, and urgency while communicating clearly with stakeholders. - Help identify trends in payroll tickets, recurring issues, control gaps, and opportunities for automation and process improvement. - Participate in maintaining and updating payroll documentation, standard operating procedures, training materials, and process guides. - Provide guidance, knowledge sharing, and training to peers, junior team members, and new hires on U.S. and Canadian Workday payroll processes. Qualifications - 4–5+ years of progressive Canadian and US payroll experience in a large, multi-state and multi-provincial environment. - Demonstrated experience processing payroll for both the United States and Canada. - Strong hands-on experience with Workday Payroll. - Experience managing complex payroll scenarios involving taxes, garnishments, deductions, audits, reconciliations, and year-end processing. - Strong understanding of U.S. federal, state, and local payroll requirements and Canadian federal and provincial payroll legislation. - Ability to manage multiple priorities and complex payroll issues with a high level of accuracy and accountability. - Comfortable working both collaboratively in a team environment and independently with minimal supervision. - Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, macros, data validation, and reconciliation analysis. - Ability to clearly and effectively train others on payroll processes and develop SOPs, job aids, process documentation, and training materials. - Effective communication across teams and confidence in partnering with HR, Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, HRIS, Shared Services, and external vendors. Requirements - CPP, FCP or PCP certification (preferred). - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Business, or a related field (preferred). - Experience with ADP Smart Compliance and related support tools (preferred). - Experience supporting payroll-related system enhancements, integrations, and testing cycles (preferred). - Exposure to equity-based compensation payroll processing in Workday (preferred). Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - Comprehensive employee assistance program. - 401(k) retirement savings plan. - Paid time off and holidays. - Paid learning days.

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