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Payroll Analyst - Multi-State

Kelly Services • Nashville, TN • 1d ago

Job Title: Payroll Analyst (Remote)

Assignment Types:

Duration: 6-month assignment

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm CST

Pay: $38.88/hr

Position Summary

The Payroll Analyst will be responsible for supporting complex multi-state and high-volume payroll processing. This position ensures payroll accuracy, regulatory compliance, and provides expert-level data analysis and problem resolution using advanced payroll systems and tools. All work is performed remotely.

Key Responsibilities

Process payroll for large, multi-state employee populations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws.

Review and audit payroll data using ADP GlobalView , Excel, and related payroll systems.

Utilize advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, data analysis) to manage and report payroll information.

Troubleshoot and resolve payroll discrepancies, system issues, and data errors efficiently.

Maintain strict confidentiality of employee payroll and sensitive HR data.

Prepare payroll reports, analyze variances, and support audits as necessary.

Communicate payroll policies, deadlines, and changes to internal stakeholders and answer employee inquiries.

Technical & Analytical Skills

Deep understanding of payroll compliance regulations, standard concepts, practices, and procedures.

Proven ability with payroll systems, especially ADP GlobalView; experience with SAP Payroll is a plus.

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including VLOOKUP, SUMIF, IF statements, pivot tables, and complex statistical functions.

Strong experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and validating complex data sets and formulas.

Comfortable navigating multiple payroll, HR, and reporting tools (Excel, Word, PC-based applications).

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field preferred; Associate's degree with significant relevant payroll experience accepted.

4-5+ years of multi-state payroll processing experience in a large, automated environment (10,000+ employees).

Demonstrated knowledge of end-to-end payroll processing and reporting in ADP GlobalView.

Approachable, organized, and detail-oriented with excellent communication skills.

Ability to work independently in a fully remote setting.

This is a remote, non-exempt position with immediate start dates available. Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply!

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here (https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits) for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life-just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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