Job Title SAP PAYROLL CONSULTANT / SAP PAYROLL ANALYST
Location Tampa Florida (Hybrid)
Duration: 6 Month Contract to hire
Reporting Type Hybrid
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible for the administration and support of U.S. and Canadian payrolls garnishments reporting. Provide support to all client locations through timely and accurate payrolls.
This position will participate in the development implementation compliance administration and communication of all Payroll programs at our client
NATURE AND SCOPE:
This position reports to a Manager in Employed Shared Services and is considered a Tampa Office Center of Excellence resource and will support North American operations. The Payroll Analyst will work with all North American customer groups and business units including Tampa Office functional departments Mills Downstream and Reinforcing Steel and Metallics/Raw Materials.
The qualifications for this job are:
- Bachelors degree from an accredited university required areas of study in Business Administration Finance Human Resources or a related field preferred.
- Minimum 24 years experience in Payroll/analysis area(s) such as garnishments Kronos compensation taxes.
- Third Party Administrator experience is a plus.
- CPP FPC or other related certifications preferred.
- Experience with union and nonunion facilities is a plus.
- Familiar with best practices laws requirements and regulations impacting the administration of Payroll rules and regulations.
ABILITIES AND SKILLS:
- Candidates should have a fundamental knowledge of Payroll concepts practices and procedures and a strong analytical and mathematical aptitude.
- Ability to adapt to many varied situations circumstances and personalities at all levels within and outside the company.
- Ability to analyze large data sets assess trends or patterns and make recommendations based on data (quantitative) and situational factors (qualitative).
- Must be able to simplify data to arrive at main conclusions key presentation and discussion points.
- Excellent verbal presentation and written communication skills.
- Negotiation skills and the ability to communicate with leaders at all levels in the organization needed.
- Significant experience with the use of Payroll systems/relational databases (SAP experience preferred but not required) and query/report development.
- MS office proficiency and Advanced Excel skills required.
- Ability to interpret functional and garnishment specifications.
- Ability to keep abreast of changes in Payrollrelated laws requirements and regulations by participating in workshops attending seminars forums and subscribing to information services.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Ensures that all daytoday activities associated with the management of Payroll programs and plans are efficiently and accurately administered in compliance with applicable federal and state regulations and company policy with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Participate and provide support during annual/regular processes in the payroll department. Examples may include annual bonus processing shortterm incentive payouts garnishment system updates and various reporting.
- Partner with and support field HR requests in all areas of Payroll.
- Participate in surveys and benchmarking activities that support the payroll area on a regular (i.e. annual) or adhoc basis.
- Assist respond to and support audit requests from external and internal parties. Document internal processes procedures and administration as appropriate for audit requirements. Facilitates annual audit preparation and completion.
- Develop and document internal processes and procedures to support consistency process improvement and simplicity in the payroll area.
- Support special projects and GLN/GSN wide actions including union negotiations mergers acquisitions divestitures layoffs reductions in force and location closings or startups.
- Proactively identifies payroll challenges and opportunities and recommends creative and practical solutions and strategies to resolve challenges and/or capitalize on opportunities.
- Assists in the development of training / educational programs and participates in the delivery of payroll training.
- This position will assist with and support special projects across the payroll department as needed or as appropriate. The ability to work cross functionally within Employed Shared Services is a requirement.
- Partner and work in collaboration with many crossfunctional departments on various companywide initiatives and multidepartment projects.
- Ensure constant data integrity with internal systems (ex: SAP) external systems (ex: Kronos) vendor file interfaces etc.
- Primary liaison with IT in the development testing implementation and postproduction review of all SAP changes and configuration requests related to Payroll.
- Acts as a center of excellence for preparing complicated reports and presentations department members.
- Assists with reconciliation payment and monitoring of vendors. This may include Accounts Payable payments and analyzing performance standards for outside garnishment vendors.
- Develops employee payroll communications and education.
- Other duties as required.