On-Site Construction Payroll Specialist (Multi-State)

Abhe-; Prior Lake (MN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid benefits

401(k) plan

Profit sharing

Discretionary bonus

Team lunches

Job summary

Abhe & Svoboda Inc. is seeking a payroll professional to own full-cycle weekly payroll for a multi-state field workforce, with training for prevailing wages, fringe benefits, and job-cost coding. You will collaborate with project managers, accounting, and field staff to resolve time and pay issues.

This is a hands-on, payroll-first role reporting to the CFO. The ideal candidate has solid multi-state payroll experience, strong systems aptitude, and a commitment to accuracy, confidentiality, and

Qualifications

• At least two years of hands-on, full-cycle payroll experience involving employees in multiple states.
• Attention to detail and the judgment to recognize when something does not look right.
• Curiosity and resourcefulness: you ask good questions, research unfamiliar issues, and follow them through to resolution.
• Comfort learning payroll, accounting, timekeeping, certified-payroll, onboarding, spreadsheet, and Microsoft 365 systems.
• Ability to manage recurring deadlines and competing priorities during a weekly payroll cycle.
• Clear, respectful communication with people in the office and field.
• Professional discretion and a commitment to confidentiality, data accuracy, and reliable follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle weekly payroll, including time review, overtime, deductions, garnishments, benefit withholdings, per diem, reimbursements, and approved adjustments.
• Work directly with project managers, superintendents, accounting, and field employees to research and resolve time, pay, wage, fringe, and coding questions.
• Maintain employee pay rates, multi-state tax settings, deductions, workers' compensation codes, job phases, and other payroll data.
• After training, own payroll-tax filings and reconciliations, certified payroll and prevailing-wage reporting, and new-project wage and fringe setup.
• Prepare payroll journal entries and supporting schedules and assist with payroll-related general ledger reconciliations and audits.
• Coordinate onboarding records, I-9 and E-Verify administration, employee changes, benefit deductions, and established leave-administration processes.
• Administer Arcoro onboarding workflows and help maintain payroll, accounting, timekeeping, certified-payroll, Microsoft 365, and SharePoint processes.
• Spot recurring errors and inefficient steps, recommend practical improvements, document procedures, and help others use the systems effectively.

Skills

Full-cycle payroll

Multi-state payroll

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Accounting/Business/HR degree

FPC/CPP credential

Tools

Arcoro

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Job description

Abhe & Svoboda Inc. is seeking a payroll professional to own full-cycle weekly payroll for a multi-state field workforce, with training for prevailing wages, fringe benefits, and job-cost coding. You will collaborate with project managers, accounting, and field staff to resolve time and pay issues.

This is a hands-on, payroll-first role reporting to the CFO. The ideal candidate has solid multi-state payroll experience, strong systems aptitude, and a commitment to accuracy, confidentiality, and