Senior Payroll Specialist

The Senior Payroll Specialist is a hands‑on, detail‑driven role responsible for the accurate, timely, and compliant processing of payroll across BHC's multi‑property portfolio. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, this role is the operational engine of the payroll function, covering nearly 1,000 colleagues across multiple properties, pay structures, and tip pooling arrangements.

This role requires deep fluency in Workday, Evention, and OSV, and a working knowledge of hospitality payroll complexity, including tipped employee pay practices, multi‑property timekeeping, and wage and hour compliance. The right candidate brings precision and independence to own day‑to‑day payroll processing while the Payroll Manager focuses on department growth and strategic needs as BHC continues to scale.

• Process payroll for approximately 1,000 colleagues across five properties, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with federal, state, and local wage and hour laws every cycle.
• Partner with the Payroll Manager to review, validate, and reconcile payroll data prior to submission, including hours, earnings, deductions, and tax with holdings.
• Process payroll transactions through OSV, troubleshooting discrepancies and escalating issues to the Payroll Manager as needed.
• Support processing of garnishments, levies, retro pay, bonuses, and other off‑cycle payments.
• Assist with month‑end and year‑end payroll processes, including W‑2 preparation and reconciliation.

• Manage tip pool calculations and distributions using Evention, ensuring accurate allocation across all eligible positions and properties each cycle.
• Maintain working knowledge of federal tip pooling regulations and BHC's property‑specific tip structures, identifying and escalating compliance concerns promptly.
• Reconcile tip pool data against payroll output to confirm distributions are reflected accurately in colleague earnings.

• Maintain and update employee payroll records in Workday, including new hires, terminations, transfers, pay changes, and leave adjustments.
• Audit timekeeping data for accuracy across all properties before each payroll deadline, working with property HR and department leaders to resolve discrepancies.
• Identify data discrepancies, system errors, or process gaps and elevate with documentation and recommended resolution.

• Respond to colleague payroll inquiries with accuracy, discretion, and a high standard of service.
• Work cross‑functionally with HR, Accounting, and property leadership to ensure payroll data is complete and accurate before each processing deadline.
• Support the Payroll Manager with audits, reporting, and ad hoc projects as needed.

• Maintain and update payroll process documentation and internal controls as the department scales to support new properties and increased headcount.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to streamline payroll workflows across Workday, Evention, and OSV.
• Support the onboarding of new properties into existing payroll processes and systems.

• Minimum of three to five years of payroll processing experience required; multi‑property or multi‑location experience strongly preferred.
• Hospitality industry payroll experience strongly preferred, including familiarity with tipped employee pay practices and tip pooling regulations.
• Experience with Workday preferred; experience with Evention or comparable tip pool management software preferred; experience with OSV or similar payroll processing platforms a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of federal, state, and local wage and hour regulations.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with payroll and HRIS reporting tools.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail when working with large volumes of data under deadline pressure.
• Excellent discretion and judgment when handling confidential colleague information.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross‑functionally with HR, Accounting, and property leadership.
• Operates independently with a high degree of ownership; does not…