Payroll Specialist: Own Close, Drive Audits & Growth

Business Excellence Group; Florida; On-site; USD 61,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Excellence Group in Pembroke Pines, FL seeks a Payroll Specialist to lead month-end close and ownership of payroll processes. The role offers ownership, collaboration, and a clear path forward, with a salary range of $61,000–$94,000.

The successful candidate will maintain audit trails, analyze financial data, and guide junior staff through journal entries and budget reforecasts while coordinating with leadership.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
• Familiarity with Negotiation and related tools or frameworks.
• Calm under the proudly-imperfect chaos a junior role tends to generate.
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements.
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in.

Responsibilities

• Keep the audit trail so results-oriented that questions answer themselves.
• Read covenant terms closely enough to keep the lender calm.
• Analyze financial data using Negotiation to surface trends and risks.
• Own the junior sign-off on journal entries above the threshold.
• Walk auditors through documentation so clean it answers itself.
• Stand in for the Pembroke Pines controller when close cannot wait.
• Carry the junior budget reforecast through three rounds of leadership review.
• Monitor key finance metrics and report on performance to leadership.

Skills

Prioritization under deadlines

Negotiation

Calm under pressure

Learner pace

Reliability

Tools

Negotiation frameworks

Job description

Business Excellence Group in Pembroke Pines, FL seeks a Payroll Specialist to lead month-end close and ownership of payroll processes. The role offers ownership, collaboration, and a clear path forward, with a salary range of $61,000–$94,000.

The successful candidate will maintain audit trails, analyze financial data, and guide junior staff through journal entries and budget reforecasts while coordinating with leadership.