Payroll Analyst

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**Essential Functions**:

- Responsible for payroll tax compliance and timely response to tax agency notices.
- Performs monthly, quarterly, and year-end wage reviews and reconciliations to ensure accurate tax withholding.
- Maintains annual W-2/T-4 calendar of events and completes tasks by established deadlines to ensure timely and accurate creation and amendments of W-2s/T-4s for GFS employees.
- Prepares tax incentive schedules, ensuring data reported is accurate and timely.
- Timely setup of tax jurisdictions.
- Maintains all tax locations within the payroll system and completes all BSI tax updates as appropriate.
- Provides support, performs testing and guides programming changes for system upgrades/modifications and other Payroll-related projects.
- Reviews weekly payroll output and handles payroll processing exceptions.
- Reviews and balances 401k/RRSP deductions and sends reporting to Financial Services.
- Responsible for tracking and processing payroll responsibilities surrounding company trips and other taxable events.
- Responsible for processing Benefit Restoration and Deferred Compensation processing.
- Performs special payroll runs and ad hoc reporting.
- Establishes format and reconciles monthly general ledger accounts, assisting others with balancing issues.
- Provides support and coverage for other members of the Payroll Team.
- Assists in training of new payroll team members.
- Documents and maintains all payroll procedures.
- Processes moving expense reimbursements.
- Prepares payroll journal entries.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

**Knowledge / Skills / Abilities**:

- Strong problem-solving and customer service skills..
- Developed math aptitude and strong understanding of accounting principles, payroll taxes and government payroll regulations.
- Communication and interpersonal skills needed to represent the department and speak at minor functions.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills necessary to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and complete them under pressure.
- Display strong presentation, change management, facilitation and collaboration abilities.
- Detail oriented and accurate.
- Strong team player.
- Knowledge of 10-Key calculator.
- Experience with basic office machines (computer, fax, phone, etc.)
- Workday software experience helpful, but not required.
- ADP and BSI experience helpful, but not required.

**Experience**:

- Typical experience for this position is a bachelor’s degree plus 3 or more years of relevant payroll experience. If no degree, then 7 or more years of equivalent experience may be accepted. Payroll certification preferred but not required.

**Adherence to Hybrid Work Policy**:
**Location**:

- 1300 Gezon Pkwy, Wyoming MI 49509
- Hybrid Schedule 3 days in office 2 days remote
- Monday to Friday
- 8 am to 5 pm

**BE PART OF AN AMAZING CULTURE WHERE WHAT MATTERS TO YOU, MATTERS TO US**:
Gordon Food Service is an equal opportunity employer.

All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco-free.

Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and drug tests all employees.