**SUMMARY** Responsible for all aspects of multi-state and multi-company payroll processing, including but not limited to: researching and resolving pay issues with employees, reconciling payroll accounts, streamlining and automating processes to ensure efficiencies through growth; regulatory reporting and compliance; payroll processing including but not limited to: electronic, computer and paper file maintenance, payroll transmission, payroll balancing. Manage Payroll Department and work cooperatively with Accounting, Human Resources, and Operations as necessary. **ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES** + Manage and guarantee weekly disbursement of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, benefits, and taxes consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws. + Ensure payroll conformance to Company standards, labor agreements, generally accepted accounting principles and tax regulations. + Responsible for oversight of daily data entry within PR for all locations. + Provide direction to payroll staff in maintaining payroll data and information integrity, efficient day-to-day operation and production schedules. Also responsible for performance management and development of direct reports. + Manage payroll tax function to ensure compliance with all federal, state and local regulatory reporting requirements. Ensure that quarterly multi-state and federal tax filings, annual reporting, and W-2s are completed on a timely basis. + Process special payments to include incentive and severance payouts. + Audit payroll entries processed by direct reports. + Responsible for resolving payroll-related site issues and pay issues with employees. + Responsible for reconciling labor distribution reports to job cost. + Recommend changes to and assist in the development and implementation of procedures to optimize business processes. + Prepare and file Certified Payroll and Union reports. + Personally process special payrolls for Executive staff. + Oversee 401(k) plan transactions and processing. + Prepare third-party sick pay, relocation, and garnishments transactions. + Update and troubleshoot payroll and time reporting software. + Responsible for reconciling labor distribution reports to job cost. + Reconcile payroll accounts to general ledger accounts. + Provide direction to payroll staff in maintaining payroll data and information integrity, efficient day-to-day operation and production schedules. Also responsible for performance management, training and development of direct reports. + Critically review and analyze current payroll, benefits and tax procedures in order to recommend and implement changes leading to best-practice operations. + Continually learn new processes, systems, and changes in wage and tax laws. + Audit W-4s, payroll balance sheets, YTD earnings, etc. + Communicate actively with Operations, HR and Billing to review cross-departmental impacts and reconcile data sharing. + Manage regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, vacation accrual, tax deductions, benefit deductions, jury duty pay, etc.). + Responsible for overseeing the maintenance of all payroll-related records, filing tax reports and voluntary deduction reports, balancing and controlling earnings and deduction totals, processing involuntary deductions such as levies and garnishments, preparing accounting transactions and documents. + Prepare various accounting papers, schedules, exhibits, and summaries related to payroll. + May calculate deductions for group health, life, and disability insurance premiums and communicate to employees and payroll staff. + Post payroll data and prepare routine reports and/or payments to government agencies, insurance companies and others. + Calculate and process special checks, review, edit and make corrections and adjustments as needed. + Oversee the posting of hours worked by examination of timecards, time sheets, or electronic media. May also be responsible for calculation of overtime, incentive pay, shift differential, etc. + Responsible for training staff in-house and at sites. + Maintain regular and punctual attendance. + Perform other duties as assigned. **SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES** Supervise Payroll Staff. Supervise that policies & procedures are followed within the Payroll Department. **MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS** + Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university OR five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience and/or training. + Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) or equivalent required. + Experience with Deltek Costpoint required. + Must obtain and maintain any necessary security access and/or background checks. **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS** + Experience with government contracting preferred. + Ability to work and communicate effectively with employees and management team, good written and verbal communication skills. + Capable of bein