Payroll Lead

Sempra Infrastructure • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Primary Purpose
Prepares, documents and disburses payroll checks, payroll taxes and employee
benefit payments. Evaluates current systems, and recommends and develops
operating efficiency improvements. Monitors and ensures proper documentation of
employee benefit payments. Prepares reports illustrating payroll expenditures, including such items as tax payments and benefit plan disbursements.

Requirements

• Typically requires a 4-year degree in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 8 years of related experience required.
• Payroll Processing - Processing all payroll, time sheets and related documents, ensuring proper payment, maintaining accurate payroll records and reconciling deductions with monthly billings.
• Documents Management - Creating, distributing, using, maintaining and disposition of recorded information maintained as evidence of business activities and transactions.
• Payroll Reporting - Providing accurate and timely reports to give the organization visibility over payroll information.
• Payroll Systems - Operating, maintaining and implementation payroll system to store and organize all the tasks of employee payment and tax filing.
• Regulatory Compliance - Ensuring an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business processes.
• Data Analysis - Measuring and managing organization data, identifying methodological best practices and conducting statistical analyzes.
• Troubleshooting - A systematic approach to solving a problem.
• Schedule Management - Establishes policies and documentation for maintaining, developing, managing, and controlling the schedules for time and resources for the completion of the project.
• Vendor Management - Overseeing relationships with key vendors and partner organizations that deliver products, services, and support to the business. Negotiating and managing contracts with key service providers to ensure service levels are set appropriately and met on an ongoing basis.
• Data Entry - The process of entering data into a computerized database or spreadsheet.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ADP- Workforce, SAP – Success Factors preferred.
• Certified Payroll Professional preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a high degree of confidentiality relative to employee personal data and ensuring data is being transferred appropriately.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders such as Finance, Tax, HR and Audit teams to ensure all payroll related matters are properly handled.
• Ensure all tax and garnishment changes are properly processed and research discrepancies where needed.
• Support implementation of payroll system including testing where required. Assist employees and other stakeholders with timekeeping-related inquiries and support requests.
• Partner with Company’s payroll processor to ensure quarterly and annual filings are correct.
• Partner with Company’s payroll processor to ensure US-based employees are paid timely and for the correct amount. This includes processing and auditing employee payroll data including timekeeping, bonuses, tax and other deductions for both biweekly and off-cycle payroll payments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees