Payroll Administrator

Location: Salisbury, MA

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Summary: We are looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Administrator to handle the processing of employee payroll, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal requirements. This role will involve maintaining payroll records, addressing payroll inquiries, and assisting with tax filings and reports.

Key Responsibilities:

•Process weekly payrolls for up to 500 employees including union and prevailing wage employees, ensuring timely, accurate payments.

•Maintain payroll records, including hours worked, salary, deductions, and benefits.

•Ensure compliance with tax laws, labor regulations, and union collective bargaining agreements

•Address payroll-related questions and resolve discrepancies promptly.

•Coordinate with HR to ensure that all new hires, terminations, and status changes are accurately reflected in the payroll system.

•Assist with year-end reporting, including W-2s and tax filings.

•Support payroll audits and collaborate with HR and accounting teams.

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan):

SPS is an employee-owned company. We are proud to offer eligible employees the opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employee-owners benefit from the success of the company and play a critical role in fostering an ownership culture within the organization, emphasizing the importance of employee engagement, and commitment to long-term success.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages, including participation in the ESOP for eligible employees, a collaborative work environment, and opportunities for professional growth within our expanding organization.

Qualifications:

•Proven experience in payroll processing (construction industry background preferred)

•Strong knowledge of payroll systems and relevant legal requirements.

•Proficient in payroll software (Viewpoint preferred), ADP, QuickBooks, andExcel.

•Excellent attention to detail, organization, and communication skills.

•Ability to handle confidential information with integrity.

•Associate’s degree in accounting or a related field preferred. Payroll certification (CPP/FPC) a plus.

It is the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to assure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, national origin, age or disability. Such action shall include: employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and/or on-the-job training. It is also the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, recruitment advertising, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay, fringe benefits or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, on the job training, classification, and referral, at all levels of employment. Consistent with these obligations, SPS New England, Inc. also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices.

Employees and applicants of SPS New England, Inc. will not be subject to harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.

SPS New England, Inc. is seeking minority and female employees, and all employees are encouraged to recruit minority and females as well.