Payroll Specialist

Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure is currently seeking a Payroll Specialist to join our team in Alpharetta, GA.

This is a Regular, full-time position to ensure the accurate and timely completion of the payroll functions under the direction of management. The role is to provide reporting, financial analysis and reconciliations and any other requests as received.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce an accurate and timely payroll
  
• Meet deadlines as established by management
  
• Enter and audit employee changes daily
  
• Enter and audit pay data daily
  
• Balance hours extracted from BST (accounting system) and loaded into ADP
  
• Understanding of Automatic Pay and Multi-J and its functionality
  
• Timely processing of documentation in compliance with all payroll, regulatory taxing authorities and court orders
  
• Stay current on Federal, State and Local tax requirements, research as required
  
• Prepare and process manual check / pay card payments as necessary
  
• Garnishment processing
  
• Prepare Certified Payroll reports, ensure compliance with Prevailing Wage, Living Wage and Davis-Bacon requirements
  
• Multiple Work Site reporting
  
• International Payroll reporting (tax filing, EFT payments, etc)
  
• Prepare state and federal statistical reporting as requested, both by internal customers and external auditors
  
• Prepare and forward remittance information to Third Party Vendors (Vanguard, Schwab, Cigna, Optum, etc.)
  
• Research questions from managers on monthly P&L entries generated by Payroll
  
• Provide assistance and financial analysis as needed
  
• Work with Operations and Finance to ensure the timely flow of information to the Payroll Team
  
• Ensure record retention guidelines are followed
  
• Must be able to work a flexible and late schedule every other Monday and at Year End due to Tax and W2 processing
  
• Provide support to management as requested
  

Skills / Qualifications

• BA / BS in accounting preferred or equivalent education and experience
  
• 2 – 5 years accounting / payroll experience preferred, ADP EV5 and ADPR experience is a plus
  
• FPC or CPP certification is a plus
  
• Multi-state payroll experience is a plus
  
• Payroll experience processing 2500 or more employees is a plus
  
• Heavy PC Literacy, including MS Office products (Excel, Word, Outlook)
  
• Goal and Team oriented with both strong communication and analytical skills
  
• Knowledge of payroll laws, regulations and practices is a plus
  
• International payroll experience is a plus
  
• Federal, State and Local tax filing knowledge is a plus