Team Leader (US & Canada Payroll) @ Revature

Job Skills and Qualifications:
Minimum Commerce Graduate (Preferably Masters or PG Diploma in Finance) with excellent academic scores.
Hands on experience in handling NA Payroll Region (Preferably US & Canada Payroll)
Good Understanding of US Federal & State Wage laws, FSLA, FMLA, Exceptions, State Reciprocal Tax agreements etc.
Knowledge and hands-on experience in State Tax Withholding and UI account registration.
Hands-on experience in Year-end and Qtr-end activities, W-2 audit/review, W2 amendments and corrections, Prior Quarter amendments etc.
Experience in Manual Payroll processing (end-to-end), including calc of Reg Hrs, OT, PTO, Taxes and other statutory deductions, and Net-to-gross / Gross-to-net
Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills
Advance MS-Excel skills, and well competent with Spreadsheets. Familiar with any Payroll Software (Preferably ADP and Ceridian/Workday)
Self-starter, and flexible to work as per deadline with multi-tasking skills to handle high volume, high speed environment
Should be ready and adaptive to learn Other Country Payroll, and should be flexible to work in extended night shifts and during weekends (as per Business requirement)
Should be ready to act as the back-up of Manager, in his/her absence.
Good experience in MIS, Dashboards, Quality tools etc.
Should have a cordial and collaborative approach at work place, and carry good interpersonal skills to work with other departments.

Responsible for Timesheet data validation and collation.
Responsible for collating the manual inputs via email and trackers, and preparing reviewing the Payroll Batches of the same.
Able to manually calculate pay according to hours worked incorporating the Reg Hours, PTO, Sick leaves, bereavement, Overtime etc., as per the Statutory Wage Laws, when needed.
Ability to calculate bonuses and commissions when appropriate.
Should be able to do Pay calculation, Payroll processing, Payroll auditing, and Pay confirmation process in the system before pay date.
Responsible to withhold taxes and submit reports to ADP/Ceridian for filing taxes.
Manage ADP / Ceridian workflow and Payroll exception trackers, to ensure all payroll transactions are processed accurately and timely.
Reconcile payroll prior to transmission and validate confirmed reports.
Update payroll records by entering adjustments when it is required.
Investigate and resolve any discrepancies in payroll.
Generate Post Payroll reports, and send to various departments for review and updation.
Process Year-end adjustments, and W2 process at year end.
Handle the W2 corrections, and W2 amendments.
Maintain intermediate knowledge of Payroll and HR-related rules/laws and pending legislation
Answer questions from employees related to HR and Payroll topics
Develop ad hoc operational reporting as needed.
Provides guidance and training to lower level staff members as required.
Perform other duties as assigned.