Compensation: $40-45/hr / Salary Conversion $90-100K
Location: Remote – Candidates must be local to the Northern Virginia/DC area for occasional quarterly team meetings in Arlington, VA.
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Key Responsibilities
- Independently manage end-to-end weekly payroll processing for approximately 400 employees, ensuring accurate and timely payments.
- Process and audit weekly timesheets, including approximately 190 employees submitting time through Excel and the remaining workforce utilizing Deltek Time.
- Extract, calculate, and format employee hours, leave balances, and payroll data for processing through Deltek Costpoint and ADP.
- Perform SCA fringe benefit and Health & Welfare calculations, ensuring accurate labor allocations and compliance with government contracting requirements.
- Review and validate labor distributions, including project hours, accounts, organizations, project labor categories (PLCs), and pay types.
- Manage employee leave calculations, accruals, anniversary payouts, and termination payouts.
- Process weekly payroll transmissions through ADP and generate required payroll reports.
- Perform monthly general ledger reconciliations, ensuring Costpoint labor and payroll deductions reconcile accurately to ADP payments.
- Research and resolve payroll discrepancies, timesheet issues, and employee inquiries.
- Collaborate with managers and internal departments to ensure timely timesheet submissions and accurate payroll processing.
- Maintain compliance with DCAA requirements, SCA regulations, and internal payroll controls.
- Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, automate manual Excel workflows, and strengthen reporting accuracy.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of payroll processing experience within a government contracting environment, ideally 3–5+ years.
- Hands-on Deltek Costpoint payroll processing experience is required.
- Strong understanding of labor accounting, timekeeping, payroll reconciliations, and government contracting compliance.