Remote US Payroll Specialist | Automation & Growth

Talentedge; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive compensation

Flexible working

Health benefits

Training & development

Impactful role

Job summary

Talentedge is seeking a US Payroll Specialist to own end-to-end semi-monthly payroll in a fast-growing technology company. You will collaborate with Finance and People teams to ensure payroll accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery while driving automation and AI initiatives.

You will manage multi-state payroll, reconciliations, month-end close, and payroll journals, while optimizing processes and maintaining data integrity across HRIS.

Qualifications

• Experience processing US payroll end-to-end.
• Strong multi-state payroll experience and understanding of US payroll compliance.
• Experience performing payroll reconciliations at both payroll and state level.
• Strong month-end finance exposure, including accruals, reconciliations and payroll journals.
• Experience preparing and processing payroll journal entries.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Process end-to-end semi-monthly US payroll accurately and on time.
• Manage multi-state payroll operations, including state registrations, tax compliance, deductions, garnishments and final pay requirements.
• Perform state-level and payroll-level reconciliations and proactively resolve discrepancies.
• Review payroll reports and validate payroll balances prior to processing.
• Prepare and process payroll journal entries as part of the month-end close.
• Reconcile payroll-related balance sheet accounts and support payroll accruals.
• Partner closely with Finance on month-end reporting and payroll accounting.
• Support payroll audits, compliance reviews and internal controls.
• Maintain payroll data integrity across payroll and HRIS platforms.
• Act as a key point of contact for payroll queries and escalations.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls and operational efficiency.
• Support payroll transformation projects, including automation and AI-driven process improvements.
• Help automate manual payroll tasks, reconciliations, reporting and validation.
• Work with internal stakeholders and external vendors on payroll systems, integrations and enhancements.

Skills

US payroll processing

Multi-state payroll

Tax compliance

Month-end close

Excel pivot

Data analysis

HRIS systems

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Automation/AI

Job description

Talentedge is seeking a US Payroll Specialist to own end-to-end semi-monthly payroll in a fast-growing technology company. You will collaborate with Finance and People teams to ensure payroll accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery while driving automation and AI initiatives.

You will manage multi-state payroll, reconciliations, month-end close, and payroll journals, while optimizing processes and maintaining data integrity across HRIS.