Payroll

• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant U.S. and Puerto Rico payroll processing
• Oversee payroll production schedules, operational calendars, and critical processing activities
• Control payroll escalations and resolve complex payroll issues and employee inquiries
• Serve as operational liaison and primary relationship specialist for ADP payroll services
• Monitor ADP performance metrics, SLAs, operational statistics, service trends, invoices, and vendor charges
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and continuous process improvement using AI-driven analytics and automation tools
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and Puerto Rico payroll regulations and reporting requirements
• Support payroll tax withholding, reporting, filing, remittance, corrections, and reconciliations
• Own payroll processes, controls, audits, regulatory inquiries, and audit readiness
• Coordinate quarter-end and year-end payroll activities, including tax filings, W-2 and 1099 reporting, wage reconciliations, and employee communications
• Oversee payroll accounting, payroll-to-general-ledger processes, garnishments, banking transactions, and account balancing
• Partner with HR, Compensation, Benefits, Global Mobility, Tax, Legal, Finance, Accounting, ADP, and external providers
• Support legal entity changes, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, and separations
• Drive payroll transformation, automation, AI anomaly detection, scalability, and employee-experience initiatives
• Develop and maintain payroll SOPs, work instructions, knowledge articles, and process documentation

Senior Specialist, Payroll

• Lead payroll implementation projects from discovery through go-live, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met
• Understand clients’ payroll processes, business requirements, compliance needs, and reporting objectives
• Configure payroll systems, earnings and deduction codes, tax settings, direct deposit setup, accrual policies, and other payroll-related components
• Conduct payroll data reviews, validation, and testing to ensure accurate system setup and client readiness
• Facilitate implementation meetings and communicate project status, risks, and next steps with clients and internal stakeholders
• Deliver client training on payroll system functionality, best practices, workflows, and administrative features
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and guide clients through payroll parallel testing and go-live preparation
• Collaborate with sales, onboarding, HRIS, benefits, and technical teams to ensure successful implementations
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and recommend solutions that enhance payroll efficiency and compliance
• Develop and maintain detailed implementation documentation, project notes, system configurations, and client records
• Serve as a payroll subject matter expert during implementations, providing guidance on payroll regulations and industry best practices
• Support post-go-live stabilization and ensure a seamless transition to ongoing client support teams

Payroll Implementation Support

• Analyze, design, and implement Human Resources systems, primarily focusing on Workday North America Payroll, Absence, and Payroll Integrations
• Partner with key stakeholders to improve user experience and increase data-processing efficiency and integrity
• Interface with third-party vendors and IT to meet business needs
• Lead research, design, and maintenance of Workday North America Payroll, Absence Payroll Integrations, and other Total Rewards Integrations
• Maintain and update Workday Payroll settings, earnings, deductions, tax configurations, general ledger, and business processes
• Provide functional and technical expertise to Payroll and Benefits teams through enhancements, process re-engineering, ongoing maintenance, and project roadmap planning
• Manage Workday updates for US mandatory legislative changes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on critical and regulatory updates affecting Payroll processing
• Manage the twice-per-year Workday Release update in partnership with Payroll COE

Payroll jobs in New Jersey

Senior Specialist, Payroll

Payroll Implementation Support

HRIS Manager – Payroll, Absence Management