Payroll Specialist

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program
  - Benefits
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs;
  Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

What You Will Enjoy Doing

Main Responsibilities:

• Process the complete payroll cycle - including salaries, benefits, deductions, garnishments, and tax with holdings - ensuring timely and accurate processing
• Handle payroll updates for new hires, terminations, promotions, and other adjustments
• Develop and refine payroll procedures to drive process improvement
• Maintain compliance with federal, state and local regulations concerning wage and hour laws, payroll taxes and reporting mandates
• Prepare, reconcile, and analyze payroll reports - including tax filings and year-end operations like W-2 distribution
• Assist with internal and external payroll audits by providing documentation and ensuring integrity control
• Address employee inquires related to payroll and uphold confidentiality of sensitive information
• Monitor changes in payroll laws and regulations and update policies to maintain compliance
• Assists with Employment Verifications and DOL inquiries, as needed
• Assists Payroll Manager with special projects as needed

What Makes You Great

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred

Experience:

• 8 - 10 years of progressive experience in multi-state payroll, garnishment administration
• Experience with UKG PRO or similar HR/Payroll software and proficiency with MS Office (especially Excel)

Skills:

• Ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues, by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulations, and employment law
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, organizational ability, and ability to prioritize in a deadline-driven environment
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills; high level of integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality
• Deep understanding of payroll regulations, tax filings, and wage laws
• Ability to prioritize tasks with minimal supervision and excellent time management skills

Certification(s):
Payroll Certification a plus

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is regularly required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #salary #SVC #HR

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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