Senior Payroll Specialist

Senior Payroll Specialist Belle Plain, MN | Onsite 5 Days/week Multi-State Construction Payroll & Systems Specialist

Jordan, MN | Fully Onsite | $80,000-$95,000 Base Salary

We’re partnering with a well-established specialty construction organization seeking a Multi-State Construction Payroll & Systems Specialist to take ownership of weekly payroll for a field-based workforce operating across multiple states and projects.

This is an excellent opportunity for a payroll professional who enjoys solving problems, improving systems, and digging into the details until everything ties out
. You’ll build on your existing multi-state payroll foundation while developing specialized expertise in construction payroll, including prevailing wages, certified payroll, fringe benefits, job-cost coding, and multi-jurisdiction compliance.

You do not need construction payroll experience on day one. What matters most is strong full-cycle payroll experience, systems aptitude, sound judgment, and the intellectual curiosity to research an unfamiliar issue and carry it through to resolution.

An experienced payroll professional will provide hands‑on transition support and training, creating an opportunity to learn a highly specialized area of payroll while gradually taking broader ownership of the function.

• Manage full‑cycle weekly payroll for a multi‑state workforce, including time review, overtime, deductions, garnishments, benefit with holdings, per diem, reimbursements, and payroll adjustments.
• Partner directly with project managers, superintendents, accounting, and field employees to research and resolve time, pay, wage, fringe, tax, and job‑coding questions.
• Maintain accurate employee pay rates, multi‑state tax settings, deductions, workers’ compensation codes, job phases, and payroll‑related employee data.
• Learn and ultimately own prevailing‑wage and certified‑payroll administration
  , including wage determinations, fringe requirements, reporting, and documentation.
• Manage payroll‑tax filings, reconciliations, and multi‑state payroll matters after training.
• Prepare payroll journal entries and supporting schedules and assist with payroll‑related general ledger reconciliations and audits.
• Coordinate payroll‑related onboarding records, I‑9 and E‑Verify administration, employee changes, benefit deductions, and established leave processes.
• Serve as a key administrator of Arcoro onboarding workflows while supporting payroll, accounting, timekeeping, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and other workforce systems.
• Identify recurring errors, inefficient processes, and opportunities for stronger controls; recommend practical improvements and document procedures.
• Help create payroll processes that are accurate, scalable, well‑documented, and less dependent on institutional knowledge.

This position is designed for someone who wants to deepen their payroll expertise and systems ownership
. It is not a traditional HR Generalist or employee‑relations position.

You’ll have exposure to employee administration and HR‑related processes, but your primary responsibility will be payroll, compliance, systems, reporting, and process improvement. Employee relations, investigations, compensation strategy, policy decisions, and employment‑law matters remain with company leadership.

• 2+ years of hands‑on, full‑cycle payroll experience
  , including employees working in multiple states.
• Strong attention to detail and the judgment to recognize when something doesn’t look right.
• Natural curiosity and resourcefulness—you ask good questions, research unfamiliar issues, and follow them through to resolution.
• Comfort working across payroll, accounting, timekeeping, onboarding, spreadsheet, and Microsoft 365 systems.
• Ability to manage recurring deadlines and competing priorities within a weekly payroll cycle.
• Strong Excel and data‑management skills with an aptitude for learning new technology.
• Clear, respectful communication with employees, field leaders, project teams, vendors, and company leadership.
• Professional discretion and a strong commitment to confidentiality, accuracy, and reliable…