Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist

Position Overview:

Our distribution client is seeking a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist on a temporary/contract basis to support accurate and timely payroll operations for an hourly workforce. This role will focus on time collection, review, and payroll preparation using ADP, working closely with supervisors, managers, HR, and corporate payroll to ensure compliance with company policies and labor regulations.

• Monitor daily time and attendance entries for accuracy and completeness
• Review employee timesheets, clock-in/clock-out data, and schedule variances
• Identify and correct missing punches, incorrect job codes, and unapproved overtime
• Ensure all time entries comply with company policies, wage and hour regulations, and distribution operations requirements

• Partner with supervisors and managers to obtain approvals and resolve timekeeping discrepancies
• Communicate with employees regarding timekeeping questions, corrections, and clarifications
• Provide guidance on timekeeping procedures, ADP system use, and policy requirements

• Prepare, validate, and finalize timekeeping data for payroll processing
• Verify hours worked, PTO usage, shift differentials, and premium pay
• Submit accurate and approved time records to corporate payroll within established deadlines

• Maintain accurate and organized timekeeping and payroll records
• Assist with payroll audits, reporting, and system updates as needed
• Support HR and Payroll teams with timekeeping-related inquiries and compliance checks

• Previous experience in a payroll or timekeeping role
  , preferably supporting a distribution, logistics, or warehouse environment
• Hands-on experience with ADP (time and attendance and/or payroll modules)
• Strong understanding of hourly payroll, overtime, and wage and hour compliance
• High attention to detail and ability to identify and resolve discrepancies
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with operations and HR
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact  .

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application.

In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.