Payroll Specialist

Description

Payroll Specialist

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: 
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Summary

Executing all assigned payroll operational tasks and special projects, as instructed by the Payroll Manager. Payroll processing includes entering all new hires and terminations for a 2000+ multijurisdictional employee base payroll, special payments, garnishments, deduction changes, timesheet data collected from Time and Labor system, and other miscellaneous payroll data.

Essential Functions

1. Processes employee data (new hires, changes, additional earnings, and benefit deductions) from the HR system 
of record to the payroll system
2. Processes employee Time & Attendance data from the Time & Labor system to payroll, including validating 
time data using standard reports. Informing and interacting with employees to correct timesheet 
reporting problems.
3. Ensures employees’ state and local tax initial setup is accurate and in compliance with state and local 
regulations
4. Processes and maintains all employee garnishments 
5. Performs all biweekly payroll close procedures & produces reports
6. Assists with producing and reviewing the US and Canadian employees tax forms.
7. Performs other payroll related tasks
8. Organizes payroll related supporting data to ensure completeness of employee files
9. Communicates any pay-related issues to management and other payroll staff
10. Assists with workers compensation audits and any state payroll tax related notices.

Qualifications

Requirements

1. High School education or equivalent, plus moderate experience in actual payroll processing.
2. Advanced proficiency in Excel from Microsoft Office Software is essential.
3. Above average attention to detail, accuracy, and organizational, interpersonal and team-oriented skills.
4. Ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines is necessary.
5. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to address different types of queries from diverse requestors. 

Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.