Job Description
Seeking an experienced HR Operations professional with deep expertise in payroll management to lead and optimize payroll operations across a complex, multi-state workforce. This role will ensure accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing while driving operational excellence across HR systems, reporting, and employee lifecycle processes.
Key Responsibilities
Payroll Management
Payroll Compliance & Reporting
HR Operations Support
Employee Support & Stakeholder Management
Required Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
Payroll Management
- Own end-to-end payroll processing for multi-state employees (corporate, field, and project-based workforce)
- Ensure accurate and timely payroll execution (bi-weekly/monthly cycles)
- Manage payroll inputs including new hires, terminations, bonuses, commissions, and deductions
- Partner with Finance to reconcile payroll data, general ledger, and reporting
- Handle payroll audits, discrepancies, and employee escalations
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local wage and hour laws
Payroll Compliance & Reporting
- Ensure compliance with tax regulations, wage laws, and reporting requirements
- Prepare and validate payroll reports, audits, and filings
- Maintain documentation for audits and regulatory reviews
- Track and report payroll metrics and trends using Microsoft Excel and Power BI
HR Operations Support
- Oversee employee data changes impacting payroll (job changes, compensation updates)
- Partner with HRBPs and Talent Acquisition on onboarding/offboarding payroll inputs
- Ensure data integrity between HRIS and payroll systems
- Support benefits deductions, leave of absence tracking, and timekeeping systems
- Identify and implement payroll process improvements and automation opportunities
- Streamline workflows between HR, Finance, and Payroll
- Improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, and enhance employee experience
Employee Support & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for payroll-related queries and escalations
- Partner with internal stakeholders across HR, Finance, and Operations
- Provide guidance on payroll policies, procedures, and best practices
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in payroll or HR operations with strong payroll ownership
- Proven experience managing multi-state payroll in the U.S.
- Strong knowledge of payroll compliance, tax regulations, and wage laws
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliation)
- Experience with payroll systems
- Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Experience supporting field-based or hourly workforce (technicians, project teams)
- Experience with reporting tools like Power BI or Tableau
- Experience in a global or multi-country payroll environment
- CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) certification
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Payroll Processing & Compliance
- Payroll Reconciliation & Audits
- HRIS & Payroll Systems
- Data Analysis & Reporting
- Process Improvement & Automation
- Stakeholder Management
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Holly Ridge, LA |
| Industry | Government and Military |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Website | https://www.planitgroup.com/ |
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Skills
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- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Financial Operationsunmatched
- General Ledger Accountingunmatched
- HRIS/HRMSunmatched
- Legal Reportsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Payroll Administrationunmatched
- Payroll Managementunmatched
- Payroll Software/Servicesunmatched
- Payroll Taxunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Pivot Tablesunmatched
- Power BIunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Reconciliationunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Tableauunmatched
- Tax Regulationsunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Trend Analysisunmatched
About Company
PLANIT Group is a fast-growing global technology consulting firm dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to our clients that drive results. We collaborate with our partners and customers to help them improve performance, efficiency, and quality. Our team delivers innovative solutions and services - including management consulting, systems integration, ERP solutions, enterprise architecture, communications, and infrastructure services. We focus on delivering value and driving increased productivity and efficiencies for our clients’ mission. Our extensive experience in the Federal, Defense, Intelligence, State, Local, Healthcare and Commercial industries delivers proven results and accelerated benefits.
Clients engage PLANIT for our expertise, innovative approach, and our exceptional team. We promote a creative, client-centric work environment and culture, striving to provide challenging and rewarding opportunities for our company’s employees and partners. Integrity and innovation are the core principles of our company philosophy. Our customers engage us to create solutions to complex mission challenges, and PLANIT delivers. For more information, visit http://www.planitgroup.com/. Innovation. Integration. Integrity.
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