Senior Payroll Analyst

Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Centennial, Colorado facility.

The Payroll Senior Analyst serves as the primary owner of payroll operations, timekeeping administration, payroll tax compliance, and related controls across multiple operating locations and remote employees.

This person will work closely with accounting, finance, human resources (HR), engineering and operations to ensure payroll and timekeeping data is accurate, approved, compliant, consistent, and capable of supporting the company’s continued growth.

The ideal candidate has experience supporting a manufacturing workforce with a mix of hourly, salaried, exempt, and non-exempt employees. Experience administering Rippling or a comparable integrated HRIS and payroll platform is strongly preferred. Experience administering complex timekeeping processes across multiple integrated systems, including manufacturing labor reporting and project-based labor tracking, is also highly desirable. Experience supporting government contracting labor requirements is also desirable.

This role operates in a fast-paced manufacturing and corporate environment and regularly collaborates with employees and leaders across multiple U.S. locations and remote work arrangements. The position may require occasional travel to company facilities and additional availability during payroll processing, quarter-end, year-end, system implementations, or other critical business periods.

• Own end-to-end payroll operations for all U.S.
  
  -based employees across multiple states, operating locations, and remote work arrangements, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant processing of all payroll transactions, including variable compensation, overtime, retroactive adjustments, reimbursements, and other payroll events.
• Serve as the primary payroll administrator for the Rippling payroll platform, maintaining payroll configurations, tax settings, and payroll-related data, as well as supporting system testing.
• Review payroll calculations, deductions, taxes, garnishments, benefit with holdings, and related payroll inputs for accuracy.
• Manage payroll calendars, processing schedules, approval deadlines, year-end activities, and payroll reporting.
• Coordinate payroll processing related to employee lifecycle events, including hires, transfers, compensation changes, leaves of absence, and terminations.
• Partner with HR, finance, information technology (IT), and external service providers to resolve payroll processing, taxation, configuration, and system issues.
• Support payroll system access and data security controls in partnership with HR and IT.
• Administer the company’s integrated timekeeping processes across Rippling and related systems, developing expertise in the manufacturing and labor reporting processes that support payroll and cost accounting.
• Help establish and maintain consistent practices for recording regular hours, overtime, shift premiums, paid and unpaid time, meal periods, leave, and other pay-related activities.
• Partner with operations to improve manager accountability, employee training, and compliance with timekeeping policies and payroll deadlines.
• Monitor timecard exceptions, missed punches, unauthorized overtime, manual edits, late approvals, inconsistent time charging, and other recurring issues.
• Support the administration of various manufacturing work schedules and shift structures.

• Ensure payroll practices comply with applicable federal, state, and local requirements by monitoring regulatory changes and implementing necessary process updates.
• Establish, maintain, and close payroll tax accounts with state and local agencies as the company expands into or exits jurisdictions, working closely with HR and Rippling to ensure registrations remain accurate and properly…