Payroll Administrator

Position: PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR
Our company culture is built upon YKK's philosophy called the CYCLE OF GOODNESS.  We believe that providing value and being fair to our customers and our employees is what makes us a successful company in return.  Guided by our core values and fundamental behaviors, we strive to foster a caring company, committed employees and challenging work that benefits our employees, customers, and communities.

We offer competitive compensation packages, training and advancement opportunities. YKK AP America provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to provide the security they need to enjoy life at home and at work.  By providing a high level of benefit coverage at a reasonable cost to the employee, we hope to foster a long and productive employment relationship.

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* Summary:

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* The Payroll Administration Business Partner is responsible for the end-to-end payroll lifecycle, ensuring accurate and compliant execution for a multi-state workforce of over 1,000 employees. In this hands-on, individual contributor role, you will collaborate closely with Finance, HR, and external vendors to ensure accuracy, regulatory compliance and timely financial reporting. We are seeking a detail-oriented professional with a strong foundation in payroll processing, who demonstrates full accountability for the function.

Beyond daily execution, the ideal candidate will drive process improvements, optimize efficiencies, and ensure the organization remains continuously audit-ready.

** Essential Duties and Responsibilities
** include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

+ Execute full cycle, multi-state weekly payroll for domestic employees and monthly payroll for international employees, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory compliance.

+ Conduct regular pre- and post- payroll audits to identify and resolve discrepancies related to earnings, deductions, hours and tax calculations.

+ Apply federal, state, and local payroll regulations consistently across each payroll cycle, including multi-state taxation requirements.

+ Partner with Finance, HR, and external vendors to ensure accurate employee data, payroll processing, and financial reconciliation.

+ Serve as the business owner and subject matter expert for the UKG Ready, UKG Dimensions HCM or UKG Pro Workforce Management Timekeeping

+ Maintain the UKG Pro Workforce Management timekeeping system, including managing supervisor and organizational structure updates.

+ Collaborate closely with HR and HRIS Team to ensure the accuracy of employee data and benefit file integrations, including auditing data transfers and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.

+ Obtains payroll reports to deliver data-driven labor cost insights to department heads for budget management, while ensuring accurate documentation is maintained to fully support internal and external audits.

+ Analyze process and recommend improvements to payroll processes, internal controls, and system workflows and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality team member support.

+ Lead quarterly and annual payroll activities, including quarter close, year-end processing, W-2 preparation, and other activities as applicable.

+ Resolve employee and manager concerns regarding salary and wage payments, taxation, garnishments, and other deductions in a timely and professional manner, while maintaining confidentiality.

+ Maintain consistent documentation and internal controls for payroll processing, ensuring accuracy and audit-readiness.

+ Processes monthly and quarterly sales commissions and incentives.  Track and calculate employee commission payments and accruals

+ Responsible for employment verifications, unemployment claims, garnishments, and child support,  responses.

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* Supervisory Responsibilities:

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* This job has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

** Education/Experience/

Skills:

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* + Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, HR or Business Administration required

+ Minimum of 5 years of functional payroll experience in high volume weekly, multi-state, full cycle payroll for 1000 + employees, required

+ Processing experience with payroll platforms UKG Ready, UKG Dimensions HCM or UKG Pro Workforce Management Timekeeping, required

+ Demonstrated knowledge and full understanding of end-to-end payroll business process including employee data set-up, payroll processing, gross to net calculations, garnishments, fringe benefits, payroll reporting, and federal and state tax processing

+ Maintains a strong knowledge of state and federal labor laws and tax reporting requirements, required

+ Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) and G-Suite, required

+ Problem solving skills and the ability to work through root cause analysis in payroll and system issues

+ Detailed oriented and able to handle multiple activities, independently and as part of a team

+ Ability to prioritize and manage time effectively while working under pressure to meet strict deadlines

+ Ability to effectively communicate with team members at all…