Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. We're looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for full-cycle payroll processing using ADP, including handling taxes, adjustments, garnishments, and deductions while ensuring accuracy and compliance. Our Payroll Specialist set up and maintain employee data across payroll and accounting systems, process and distribute payroll-related information to carriers, reconcile discrepancies, and provide timely support to a variety of stakeholders.

If you love numbers, solving problems, and take pride in keeping things running seamlessly behind the scenes. This could be the role for you, let's talk!

What you will do :

• Accurately process biweekly payroll in alignment with established deadlines, policies, and controls.
• Enter and maintain payroll data for new hires, terminations, status changes, and compensation adjustments.
• Process employee timesheets and partner with managers to resolve discrepancies promptly.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll tax requirements, including accurate setup, updates, and timely filing of quarterly and year-end reports.
• Partner with HRIS to monitor and validate employee data integrations, ensuring consistency across systems.
• Support annual compensation and bonus cycles to deliver timely, accurate payouts with proper documentation.
• Complete required compliance activities, including E-Verify submissions for new hires and wage theft notices for compensation or classification changes.
• Prepare and validate payroll reports (e.g., 330 report) and maintain documentation to support audits and compliance reviews.
• Provide timely, professional responses to employee inquiries regarding pay, deductions, and timesheets.
• Collaborate with payroll team to identify workflow improvements that enhance accuracy and efficiency.
• Maintain organized, audit-ready payroll records in compliance with legal retention requirements.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned : every employee is literally invested in our clients' success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork we elevate the human experience through design, together. DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / M / F / Veteran / Disabled employer.