Senior Payroll Specialist

Leidos has an opening for a Senior Payroll Specialist to join our Enterprise Payroll team. Our payroll team ensures that all employees receive on-time paychecks and serve as a trusted partner on a team of payroll specialists to achieve timely and accurate results. The payroll team handles complex union, federal contracting standards, expatriate and other special pay situations for US based employees on missions around the world.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Process multi-state payroll information for 40,000 employees.
• Comply and adhere to multiple payroll policies and procedures.
• Evaluate, develop recommendations, document processes, and implement approved changes in the processing of payroll.
• Communicate issues and participates in problem resolution/escalation processes.      
• Process complex payroll functions; such as, ensure that payroll files have been received from internal business partners and processed for timely payment to employees.
• Calculate, compile and complete accurate and timely transfer of pay information and adjustments for payroll processing.
• Calculate miscellaneous pay components in compliance to federal, state, and/or, local tax policies.
• Serve as point of escalation to assist employees, and other internal stakeholders with questions, concerns, comments in a timely manner.
• Serve as subject matter experts on multiple payroll topics.
• Conduct specialized research into issues and provide recommendations for payroll processing and outputs.
• Review, coordinate and submit timely manual check requests including sensitive matters such as termination cases.
• Review manual check log and ensure pertinent issues are resolved.
• Assist with wage audits (e.g. DCAA, Internal Audit, Benefits, agency, federal, state, etc.).
• Assist with deployment and development of robotics, process automation, and set-up of reporting tools
• Assist with special projects as assigned.
• Oversee and review overpayment payroll matters.
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays (as needed) in order to assure payroll processing is completed by deadlines. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of payroll processing experience. Additional years of relevant payroll experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Proficiency with UKG Payroll.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office 10 – Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Experience processing a variety of payroll situations (multi-state, expatriates, union, etc).
• Proven ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Work well under pressure.
• Deadline driven.
• Organized individual.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Ability to prioritize work independently.
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field preferred.
• Ability to process accounting functions and formulas in Microsoft Office suite is preferred.
• Proficiency with unions, garnishments, and/or expat (international employee) payroll processing.
• Ability to understand internal payroll controls.
• CPP certification is preferred.

Please note the actual salary is closer to the middle of the posted pay range.

Original Posting:March 19, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:Pay Range $63,700.00 - $115,150.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.