Airgas, Inc. Looking for Senior Payroll Specialist at Kennesaw, GA  Full Time

Location:

Kennesaw, GA (LLC Support) – Management

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Sr. Payroll Specialist partners daily with Airgas managers and associates to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance. This role is responsible for directly processing Canadian payroll as well as providing support as needed for the weekly and bi-weekly US payrolls. Other payroll responsibilities includes supplemental file loads, payroll auditing, retro pay, calculating/confirming pay runs, and ensuring timely and accurate pre/post reconciliations in alignment with business practices.

The Sr. Payroll Specialist will also provide support to the Accounting team and other teams through Payroll reporting and assistance with inquiries. The Sr. Payroll Specialist should be a subject matter expert in resolving complex payroll issues and a point of escalation for the business if there are issues. The Sr. Payroll Specialist is also skilled at training less experienced associates in Airgas payroll practices. The successful candidate will help to assess our current processes and apply best practices to make them even better.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Canadian and US Payroll
• Ensuring weekly and bi-weekly payrolls are processed timely and accurately
• Loading and reconciling supplemental files
• Act as point of escalation for more complex payroll issues
• Reviewing and submitting union health and welfare billing
• Processing manual payments and special payroll requests routinely
• Monitoring, reviewing, and timely completion of payroll cases based upon assignment
• Provide customer support and education for HR managers, payroll coordinators, controllers, and field leader
• Update and develop Standard Operating Procedures as needed
• Proactively anticipate customer needs and build trusting relationships through collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Work with banking in processing direct deposit rejections and reversals
• Provide needed reports both to field and Corporate Accounting
• Work with other administrators in setting up/maintaining garnishment records, remitting payments to agencies, and customer service calls from agencies and affected associates
• Assist with year-end processing (i.e., W-2s, balancing totals to reports, and W-2cs)

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Leadership Skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to think critically and who will question the status quo
• Proactively seek and provide creative approaches to problem solving and process improvement.
• Strong ability to collaborate with other team members to resolve payroll variances, provide reporting support and deliver quality results to employees and external customers.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills; including the ability to effectively communicate technical payroll and tax terms and explanations to internal customers
• Proven excellent attention to detail and a high level of confidentiality
• Proven ability to work within tight deadlines as well as successfully prioritize multiple tasks and customers in a fast paced human resources environment

Education/Experience

• Canadian Payroll
• 5-7 years of processing full cycle multi-state in-house payroll in a mid-size payroll department
• Associates degree or equivalent work experience

Functional Skills

• Understanding of pay calculations, payroll processes, pay standards and wage and hour laws
• Knowledge of Workday desired; similar HRIS platforms may be acceptable
• Previous experience working with Time & attendance files and systems
• CPP Certification preferred

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request by contacting Human Resources at 844-myHR4AG (844-694-7424).

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by phone at 844-myHR4AG (844-694-7424) or by email to .

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, protected veteran status or disability