Senior Payroll Specialist

Ramirez Hospitality Group; Highlands Ranch (CO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity for advancement

Paid time off

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Ramirez Hospitality Group is hiring a Payroll Specialist to own the weekly payroll cycle for six restaurants and a corporate office. You will manage timekeeping review, tips, adjustments, retro pay, funding, and post-processing verification with precision and timeliness.

You will partner with the Director of People and Finance to ensure accurate funding and reporting, while developing SOPs and maintaining an audit trail for expansion and posterity.

Qualifications

• Extreme Attention to Detail: payroll accuracy is non-negotiable; catch misclassifications, duplicated adjustments, and rate changes before they affect others.
• The Audit Trail: track every addition and edit to payroll with who/when/why.

Responsibilities

• The Weekly Payroll Cycle: full processing for six locations and corporate office; timekeeping review, tips, adjustments, retro pay, and funding.
• Weekly Reporting to Finance and Ownership: produce clean weekly summaries that leadership can act on.
• Findings and Error Escalation: raise issues with the Director of People with documentation to fix at store level.
• Labor Compliance: knowledge of federal and Colorado wage and hour law as it applies to payroll.

Job description

The Role

In a house of fifteen children, nobody got skipped at the table.

Benefits

• Opportunity for advancement


• Paid time off


• Competitive salary


• Flexible schedule

The Role

In a house of fifteen children, nobody got skipped at the table. That is the whole job, restated in modern terms. Every person who works here trusts us with the most personal thing a company handles for them, which is whether they get paid correctly and on time. That trust is not a back office detail. It is the promise underneath every other promise we make to our team.

We are hiring a Payroll Specialist to own that promise for six restaurants and one corporate office. This is a specialist seat, not a generalist one. Payroll processing is the center of the role, and you will run the full weekly cycle from timekeeping review through funding, reporting, and reconciliation. Beyond the cycle, you support the People team wherever payroll and HR overlap, because the two are never fully separate.

This role sits at the intersection of People, Finance, and the restaurants themselves. You will work closely with the Director of People, the Director of Finance, the VP of Finance, and all six General Managers.

What You'll Own

The Weekly Payroll Cycle: Full processing for six restaurant locations and the corporate office in Toast Payroll. Timekeeping review, tips, adjustments, retro pay, terminations, funding, and post‑processing verification. On time, every week, with no exceptions and no surprises.

• Extreme Attention to Detail: This is the non-negotiable of the role. Payroll is a job where being ninety‑nine percent right is still wrong for somebody. You catch the misclassified punch, the duplicated adjustment, the rate that changed without paperwork, and the number that does not tie, before anyone downstream sees it.


• The Audit Trail: Track every addition and edit to payroll on a weekly basis. If a number changed, we know what changed, who requested it, when it was entered, and why. Nothing moves through payroll unlogged.


• Weekly Reporting to Finance and Ownership: Produce clean weekly summary reporting that Finance and Ownership can read and act on. Your reports become part of how leadership sees the business, so they need to be accurate, consistent, and delivered on schedule.


• Findings and Error Escalation: When you find an issue that traces back to a restaurant, you bring it to the Director of People with the detail and documentation needed to correct it at the store level. You are not the enforcement arm. You are the person who makes sure the right leader has the right information early enough to fix it.


• Labor Compliance: Working knowledge of current federal and Colorado wage and hour law as it applies to payroll. Overtime, tip credit and tip pooling mechanics, minimum wage rules, meal and rest period treatment, final pay requirements, and record‑keeping. When something in the file does not look compliant, you say so.


• Reading Labor Like an Operator: The best payroll people in this industry know when a schedule or a punch pattern does not make sense. Hours in a position that should not have been staffed that day, a salaried manager coded hourly, overtime that appeared without a reason. You notice it because you understand how a restaurant actually runs, not just how a spreadsheet looks.


• SOPs and Documentation: Build and maintain written standard operating procedures as your process solidifies. We are always setting ourselves up for expansion and for posterity. If