Payroll Analyst
Job Summary
Job Description
The Senior Payroll Analyst is responsible for managing payroll operations, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery for the company's semi-monthly payrolls across three countries (USA, Canada, and Costa Rica). This role involves complex payroll calculations and supporting audits, reporting, accounting, and year-end processes. Collaborating with various teams and interacting with third-party providers is essential. The analyst will process new hires, leaves of absence, terminations, maintain payroll changes, import third-party information, process child support, audit payroll registers, prepare reports, generate reports using ADP Reporting, coordinate year-end W-2 processing, and provide employee information on payroll matters, tax issues, and benefits deductions.
Must have:
- 5+ years of payroll processing experience.
- Experience with Costa Rica, US and Canadian Payroll.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Must be a team player.
Good to have:
- Accounting background is highly desired.
- BS in Business or Accounting is highly preferred.
Perks:
- Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work
- Medical insurance: Private health insurance
- Vacation and Time off: Paid time off.
- Wellness reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee association
- Wellness Benefits through Unmind
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ABOUT WIND RIVER
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.
Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.
The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.
Senior Payroll Analyst
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
The Senior Payroll Analyst is an individual contributor responsible for end-to-end administration of payroll operations, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery for the company's semi-monthly payrolls across three countries (USA, CAN, and CR). Reporting directly to the Payroll Director, this role involves complex payroll calculations and support for activities such as audits, reporting, accounting, and year-end processes.
WITH WHOM YOU WILL WORK
Collaborating with the People, General Ledger, Benefits & Compensation teams, and interacting with third-party providers is a key aspect of this role.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Process new hires, leaves of absence, terminations, and maintain payroll changes and deductions.
- Process salary increases and, if applicable, retroactive payments.
- Review and import 3rd party information for semi-monthly payroll processing.
- Process child support, wage assignments, and garnishments.
- Audit payroll register and other ADP reports.
- Prepare and provide semi-monthly payments and monthly payroll-related reports to HR, FP&A, GL, and Accounting and Finance groups.
- Generate payroll reports using ADP Reporting as needed.
- Coordinate and plan year-end W-2 processing.
- Support Worker’s Compensation, 401(k), and FSA audits.
- Provide information to employees on payroll matters, tax issues, and benefits deductions.
- Interface with outside payroll service (ADP), government agencies, and other vendors to resolve problems and issues.
- Ensure SOX Compliance regarding payroll processes.
ABOUT YOU
- 5+ years of payroll processing experience with Workforce Now Payroll and ADP Reporting.
- Experience with Costa Rica, US and Canadian Payroll.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a high level of customer service.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet critical deadlines.
- Accounting background highly desired.
- BS in Business or Accounting highly preferred.
- Must be a team player and able to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE
In this pivotal role, you will actively engage in addressing diverse payroll challenges, showcasing your analytical prowess to evaluate identifiable factors and exercising sound judgment in selecting optimal methods and techniques for effective solutions. As a seasoned and fully qualified professional with a comprehensive understanding of Payroll, you will bring creativity to the forefront, resolving a wide array of issues.
Key Contributions:
- Problem-solving expertise: Tackle payroll problems of diverse scope, applying creative solutions and demonstrating adaptability.
- Strategic analysis: Evaluate data, activities, and processes to propose innovative methods for delivering improvements and operational efficiencies.
- Networking and collaboration: Cultivate networks with senior internal and external personnel within your area of expertise, fostering collaborative relationships.
- Autonomous leadership: Operate at a fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position, showcasing autonomy in day-to-day tasks with minimal instruction.
- Accountability and velocity: Take ownership of results, responding with velocity to meet critical deadlines and deliver impactful outcomes.
- Effective communication: Engage in constructive communication, actively sharing information to benefit the collective success of the team and the organization.
BENEFITS
- Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work
- Medical insurance: Private health insurance
- Vacation and Time off: Employees are eligible for various types of paid time off.
- Wellness reimbursement: To promote healthy living and encourage employees’ well-being.
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee association
- Wellness Benefits through Unmind
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About The Company
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For 40 years, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of devices and systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation across industries, including automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio supported by world-class professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.
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