Senior Payroll Specialist

Location: Chicago, IL

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Job Posted
Apr 16, 2024
Company: Green Thumb Industries

Company & Role Overview

Summary

The Role

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and manage workflow to ensure bi-weekly payrolls are processed in a timely and accurate manner
  • Lead HRIS/Wurk functionality projects
  • Provide training related to payroll processes and create SOPs
  • Process employee changes as they relate to compensation changes/adjustments, changes in employment status, deductions
  • Set up state and local taxing authorities, respond to tax notices
  • Process audits to include 401(k), Workers Comp, SOX, and internal
  • Perform year-end responsibilities as they relate to W-2 verification
  • Resolve all payroll discrepancies, process adjustments, manual checks, and answer employee and management inquiries
  • Support the Accounting team with reconciliations as they relate to benefit deductions, garnishments, cost center allocation, and reporting
  • Partner with Wurk Support to investigate and troubleshoot payroll and system errors
  • Provide ongoing brainstorming of ways to improve or streamline current processes

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree and at least 5 years of payroll experience
  • Must have experience processing non-exempt, hourly employees
  • Proven experience and success in a fast-paced, high-growth organization
  • Advanced computer skills, including Excel
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills
  • High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Excellent and professional verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to interact and communicate with all levels within the organization
  • Demonstrated understanding of multi-state wage and labor laws
  • Experience using the following products, a plus: Kronos, Wurk, ABG, Everything Benefits

Additional Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to handle confidential material
  • Must pass any and all required background checks
  • Must be and remain compliant with all legal or company regulations for working in the industry

Working Environment

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About Green Thumb Industries

Calling all curious, collaborative, compassionate, boundary-pushing, trustworthy stewards: There’s a place for you.

People are everything at Green Thumb. Some of us nurture plants while others pore over legal documents or open new stores. A few things we have in common? We’re stewards of the plant, a happy and humble bunch and genuinely love what we do.