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Senior Payroll Specialist

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-06-25

Why Ryan?

  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits

  • Home Office Stipend

  • Business Connectivity Reimbursement (Phone/Internet)

  • Gym Membership or Equipment Reimbursement

  • LinkedIn Learning Subscription

  • Flexible Work Environment

  • Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service

  • Accelerated Career Path

  • Award-Winning Culture & Community Outreach

The Payroll Specialist is responsible for assisting the Payroll Manager as needed in all areas of payroll processing. Areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to, research of payroll tax questions from employees and agencies, review of quarterly tax information, preparation of international payroll worksheets, review of employee work flow information in the HRMS system to ensure proper tax jurisdiction set up, review of periodic tax reports and files, and provides assistance to the Payroll Manager with the review of the annual tax reconciliation. The Senior Payroll Specialist works closely at a peer level with Accounting, Human Resources, and Service Delivery personnel.

Duties and responsibilities, as they align with Ryan Key Results People:

  • Create a positive team member experience.

Client:

  • Routine interaction with employees and managers.

Values:

  • Reviews and balances payroll batch information which includes time clock entries, bonus entries, and other compensation entries.
  • Reviews employee master file information to ensure applicable work state taxes are calculating and appropriate resident state information is calculating.
  • Reviews work flows for employee changes in direct deposit and withholding.
  • Reviews basic calculations for each payroll.
  • Assists in balancing the payroll and reviewing exception reports.
  • Creates payroll worksheets for established international countries.
  • Reviews the quarterly payroll reports from the tax vendor.
  • Creates compensation ad-hoc reports as needed.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

  • Five years related payroll experience in a multi-jurisdictional environment.
  • The preferred candidate would have or be working toward CIPP qualification.

Computer Skills:

  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must have intermediate skills in Workday or similar payroll software, and intermediate skills in Microsoft® Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and Internet navigation/research.
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