Senior Payroll Administrator

Leonardo DRS, Inc.•Bridgeton, MO

41d•$60,045 - $78,058

About The Position

Leonardo DRS Land Systems is seeking a full-time Senior Payroll Administrator based at its Bridgeton, Missouri facility. The position may be performed in person or on a hybrid schedule. The role is responsible for full-cycle payroll processing, payroll reconciliations, journal entries, and related reporting. It requires maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines in a multi-task environment while handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion. The administrator also supports the organization’s mission, values, and culture and serves as backup for union payroll.

Requirements

High school diploma.
At least 5 years of payroll experience.
Mastery of payroll business procedures and principles.
Working knowledge of accounting principles.
Working knowledge of tax levies, state and creditor garnishments, and income withholding orders.
Working knowledge of computerized payroll systems.
Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws pertaining to the payment of wages.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cognos, Costpoint (CP), or SFT.

Responsibilities

Process full-cycle payroll, including balancing and reconciling payroll figures.
Process new hires, intercompany transfers, and terminations.
Enter employee banking and tax changes in ADP.
Review and post timesheets weekly.
Prepare journal entries to record bi-weekly payroll and additional entries as needed, including for void checks and errors.
Verify payroll and validate exceptions such as overtime, personal time, sick time, and vacation time.
Balance payroll data to the ADP Payroll Preview before submitting payroll to ADP for payment.
Perform a three-way reconciliation between timesheets, the Costpoint ERP system, and ADP with each payroll.
Enter and process garnishment interrogatories, including tax levies, income withholding orders, and state and creditor garnishments.
Balance year-end W-2 data, including gross wages, taxes, life insurance, moving expenses, and car allowances.
Respond to payroll inquiries from employees, management, banks, government agencies, and other sources.
Prepare required reports.
Reconcile payroll liability and cash general ledger accounts monthly, investigate discrepancies, and resolve them.
Learn union payroll to provide vacation and out-of-office backup.
Review employees’ city earnings tax quarterly.
Meet deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy in a multi-task environment.
Handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
Support, communicate, reinforce, and defend the organization’s mission, values, and culture.
Audit system controls to ensure accuracy.