Payroll Specialist-1

Wayne-Sanderson Farms is looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to join our Corporate Payroll team. In this role, you’ll help ensure employees are paid accurately and on time while gaining hands-on experience with payroll processing, reconciliations, compliance, garnishments, reporting, and payroll systems.

This is a great opportunity for someone with payroll, HR, or accounting experience who enjoys working with numbers, solving problems, helping employees, and being part of a collaborative team.

• Support weekly and biweekly payroll for hourly and salaried employees.
• Review earnings, deductions, retroactive payments, and employee payroll information for accuracy.
• Process payroll adjustments, manual checks, special payments, and off-cycle transactions.
• Assist with direct deposit reversals, stop payments, voids, rejected payments, and pay card administration.
• Maintain accurate employee payroll records and support employee status changes.

• Reconcile payroll transactions, benefit deductions, and payroll reports.
• Identify discrepancies and partner with the payroll team to resolve issues.
• Maintain payroll documentation and records for reporting and audit needs.
• Support payroll funding reconciliations and requests from Finance and Treasury.
• Process garnishment setups, changes, releases, and required agency or court responses within established deadlines.

• Help employees and HR partners with routine payroll questions and issues.
• Support payroll activities in accordance with federal, state, and local requirements and company policies.
• Assist with payroll tax administration, wage withholding, garnishments, and year-end activities, including W-2 processing.
• Protect confidential employee and payroll information.

• Work with Workday, ADP, timekeeping applications, and other payroll systems.
• Help identify and troubleshoot payroll system and data issues.
• Assist with system testing and validation when payroll processes or systems change.
• Maintain payroll procedures and contribute to process improvement projects.

• 2+ years of experience in payroll processing, payroll administration, Human Resources, accounting, or a related field.
• Experience working with payroll or HR systems, ideally Workday and ADP.
• Experience processing payroll transactions, maintaining employee records, or performing reconciliations is preferred.
• Multi-state payroll, payroll deduction, garnishment, or timekeeping experience is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Comfortable working in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, filtering, and basic data analysis.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage recurring deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and customer service skills with the ability to handle confidential information appropriately.

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Accounting, or a related field is preferred.
• Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification is a plus.

If you’re looking to continue building your payroll career, this position provides exposure to the full payroll process within a large, multi-state organization. You’ll have the opportunity to expand your knowledge of payroll systems, compliance, reporting, garnishments, and process improvement while partnering with an experienced Corporate Payroll team.

Wayne-Sanderson Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law.