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Title: Lead Payroll Specialist
Location: Goodlettsville TN
Start Date: ASAP
Pay Rate: Total Comp: $70,000-$75,000; additional comp and benefits will includ annual bonus, 401k match, pto, health, vision, dental
Type: Direct Hire
Hours: Standard Business Hours | Monday-Friday | 40 hours

REQUIREMENTS: LEAD PAYROLL SPECIALIST
* 4+ years of recent payroll experience
* 2+ years of supervisory or team-lead experience
* Comprehensive understanding and knowledge of payroll, tax, and garnishment laws required.

RESPONSIBILITIES:LEAD PAYROLL SPECIALIST
* Supervises daily workload, prepares and leads training sessions, and mentors' tax and garnishment staff to ensure that all team members maintain compliance with tax and garnishment rules, regulations, and company policies.
* Ensures balanced, coordinated workload is carried by all team members, reallocating work assignments as needed.
* Proficient in all team tasks with the ability to take on additional responsibility to manage workload when circumstances require.
* Manage tax wire calculations and payment remittance forms, completes new tax jurisdiction applications, reports lump sum bonus payments and sustains system updates required by law, maintains EIWO system interface to ensure Child Support orders are set up accurately, executes system set up for electronic funds transfers, and performs research to resolve discrepancies related to tax notices and garnishment inquiries.
* Professionally interacts with third party vendors, courts, and agencies to provide timely resolution to inquiries.
* Executes essential research related to tax withholding accuracy, garnishment rules and regulations, and performs system testing, reviewing output results to prepare systems for changes when entering new states, establishing new tax jurisdictions, maintaining tax engine updates, researching and correcting error messages associated with payroll tax or garnishment changes, and implementing system updates and upgrades.
* Audits and reviews exception reports to resolve warnings and error message from company systems, agencies, and legal inquiries.
* Helps maintain SOX compliance, manage caseload, respond to email, phone, and case management inquiries, reconciles, submits accruals and journal entries, and completes special projects as assigned.
* Collaborates and provides feedback to Senior
* Manager regarding hiring decisions and performance improvement discussions.

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