The Payroll Specialist will assist in processing payroll, ensuring it is timely and accurate, and in compliance with various federal and state laws.

Responsibilities:

Payroll Administration:

• Assists with timely and efficient processing of on-cycle, off-cycle, and bonus payrolls with guidance.
• Ensures compliance and maintains current knowledge of applicable federal and state employment law regulations.
• Respond to various employee inquiries regarding payroll, timesheets, updating direct deposits, W2’s, etc.
• Calculates total wage earnings according to hours worked incorporating leaves and overtime.
• Processes & calculates withholding payroll taxes, deductions, and various payments with guidance.
• Updates employees pay and tax profiles as needed.
• Investigate and resolve any discrepancies with timesheets and payroll related items.
• Set up and maintain garnishment payments in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, providing required information to collecting agencies.
• Conducts new hire orientation & training for employees & managers on completion of timecards, including maintaining user procedures, guidelines, and documentation.
• Partner & liaise with HR: ensure all new hire paperwork is completed; employee changes are completed; coordinate spot bonus payments.
• Liaise with HR Benefits to coordinate accurate pay for employees on leaves of absence including ensuring third-party payments are processed correctly, coordinating use of accrued PTO with employee.
• Assists Senior Payroll Specialist & Payroll Manager with development, implementation and maintenance of payroll procedures and processes.

• Assists Senior Payroll Specialist & Payroll Manager to ensure consistent payroll and payroll tax system configuration for federal, state and local law and regulation compliance.
• Assist Senior Payroll Specialist & Payroll Manager to ensure compliance with regulatory quarterly, annual reporting, and year-end tax filings including W2’s.
• Monitor & consolidate timesheet information; audit & compare timesheets to payroll data to ensure accuracy.
• Unlock Costpoint users from service desk emails.
• Set up new hire profiles for timesheets & setup of backup managers to profiles.
• Updates EE Vendor direct deposit changes in Costpoint.
• Backup support in maintaining leave administration in Costpoint: various leave banks: including calculating, prorating, posting, and auditing leave banks.

Timesheets Administration:

• Performs real-time auditing of timesheets on a weekly basis to ensure timesheets are completed on time each pay period
• Assists employees with basic timesheet questions
• Remind & follow-up with employees on missing timesheets or missing hours
• Close timesheets and import timesheets with guidance
• Completes backend processing of timecard corrections
• Controls timesheet periods and imports timesheet data from T&E to Costpoint for labor posting.

Requirements

• 2-4 years experience with multi-state payroll administration
• Knowledge and experience in ADP payroll systems (ideally using ADP Workforce Now) & Deltek Costpoint
• Proficient with Excel (Vlookups, pivot tables, summarizing formulas, etc) (required)
• Familiarity with general accounting principles
• Solid knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and regulations
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Benefits

STR is a rapidly growing technology company with locations north of Boston, MA, Arlington, VA and near Dayton, OH. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security, trying to understand how to protect our society: from stopping malicious botnet attacks, to understanding cyber vulnerabilities, providing next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare to developing artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.

STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, but you go home at night knowing that you pushed the forefront of technology and made the world a little safer. We recognize that the world is changing, that it is becoming more connected than ever before, making things change faster than before, and reshaping society in the process. We all want to understand this changing world and leave it better for our work.

STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info.

STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at appassist@str.us and provide your contact info.

Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.