Vaco Phoenix is working with a stable and growing company, who is looking to add a payroll specialist with tax experience to their fun and growing team. This position requires the preparation, processing, and maintenance of basic payroll responsibilities. This position is perfect for someone looking to plant their roots and grow with a stable company. This is a direct hire position paying up to $75k per year and offers a hybrid work schedule.
Duties and Responsibility:
- Validate and reconcile bi-weekly payroll data, including pre-checks such as approved timesheets, time-off requests, and reimbursements
- Ensure adherence to payroll controls in accordance with internal checklists
- Collaborate and communicate regularly with HR
- Coordinate the processing of bonus, severance, and commission payments
- Accurately calculate and process bi-weekly payroll
- Process out-of-cycle payrolls as needed
- Work closely with HR to maintain up-to-date employee records
- Ensure payroll compliance with all relevant laws and regulations
- Respond to payroll-related inquiries from employees
- Manage onboarding tasks to ensure new employee profiles are properly set up for payroll
- Oversee termination pay, which may include processing out-of-cycle payments
- Collaborate with HR to manage payroll deductions, garnishments, and levies
- Be available on payroll processing days; PTO is restricted on payroll Wednesdays (every other week)
- Respond to mandatory government surveys and data requests
- Collect required information from the accounting team for government submissions
- Monitor and respond to tax notices from authorities
- Maintain and update the company's online tax document library
- Download and organize tax return documents
Desired experience:
- Strong urge to learn and grow
- 3+ years of payroll processing experience
- General accounting background
- Ability to work in fast paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual's skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's 401(k) retirement plan.