Payroll & Compliance Specialist

Redwood Materials Inc.; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is seeking a Payroll Specialist to support payroll processing, ensuring regulatory compliance, and improving payroll controls. The role partners with Payroll, HR, Finance, and external vendors to ensure accurate and efficient payroll operations.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of payroll experience, strong knowledge of payroll taxes, and advanced Excel skills. This on-site role in Nevada offers a dynamic team and opportunities to streamline payroll processes.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years payroll experience
• Strong knowledge of payroll taxes, wage and hour laws, and compliance requirements
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, formulas)

Responsibilities

• Review payroll inputs, outputs and controls
• Analyze payroll data to identify trends, variances, and cost drivers
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc payroll reports for Finance and HR
• Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end payroll reporting and close activities
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations
• Review tax filings, payments, and reconciliations prepared by vendors or internal teams
• Assist with multi-state payroll compliance and jurisdiction setup
• Support internal and external payroll audits and respond to audit requests
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, and system efficiencies
• Document payroll procedures, workflows, and internal controls
• Support payroll system implementations, upgrades, and testing
• Drive automation and standardization initiatives to reduce errors and manual work
• Partner with HR, Finance, Accounting, and IT to ensure accurate data flow

Skills

Payroll processing

Data analysis

Excel

Compliance

Collaboration

Education

Accounting/Finance degree

Tools

ADP

Workday

Paychex

UKG

Ceridian

Job description

Redwood Materials is seeking a Payroll Specialist to support payroll processing, ensuring regulatory compliance, and improving payroll controls. The role partners with Payroll, HR, Finance, and external vendors to ensure accurate and efficient payroll operations.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of payroll experience, strong knowledge of payroll taxes, and advanced Excel skills. This on-site role in Nevada offers a dynamic team and opportunities to streamline payroll processes.