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Payroll Specialist

Granger Construction
Lansing, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 10/12/2023 CLOSED ON 11/14/2023

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Payroll Specialist position at Granger Construction?

Get To Know Granger

Granger Construction is built with innovators, leaders, collaborators, and listeners. Founded on the Golden Rule in 1959, our values remain ingrained with our employees, customers, and overall project experience. As a leader in the construction industry, we continue investing in our talented teams, technologies, and techniques, to best deliver projects that exceed our customer's expectations.

Culture

Our employees come from various life and career backgrounds, but all share the passion to Advance the Art of Building. We celebrate innovation, diversity, and build an environment that keeps our team members highly engaged while developing lifelong relationships. Our success is driven by empowering our employee's passions, ideas, and providing work-life balance.

What Can We Offer You?

Autonomy

We trust people we hire. Plain and simple. Granger empowers people to make the best decisions for the customer and the company.

Career Development

Team members enjoy flexible career paths at Granger. We support development with tools and resources, and career conversations to help prepare obtainable, personalized, professional goals.

Challenging Work

Diverse projects keep our teammates engaged and continuously learning. Participating in multiple market segments, we develop well-rounded employees.

Benefits

We offer platinum-level health care coverage. Our goal is to provide less financial stress on our employees without sacrificing excellent healthcare coverage. Our Granger Team's health is top priority and top of mind.

Retirement

A generous 401(k) plan with significant employer-matching. We want to best prepare you for your financial retirement goals. We offer an excellent plan and financial advisors for all employees.

Time Off

Life happens, things come up, vacations should be had, and we encourage our teams to utilize this time to balance work and home life. We proudly offer substantial paid time off (PTO).

Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

Granger Gives! We encourage our team to participate in volunteer activities to enhance and serve the community. To put our money where our mouth is, we offer paid voluntary time off to all full-time employees.

Wellness Program

Granger cares about the holistic wellness of our team. Our Wellness Program provides free support, training, resources, and tools to nurture physical, mental, financial, and community wellness.


Day In the Life of a Payroll Specialist

Do you enjoy process-driven tasks? Do you thrive in a supportive role? Does reporting, reconciling, and auditing data fill your fulfillment bucket?

Perfect! Our team could flourish with you joining Granger.

We would count on you to support our team with:

  • Payroll administration. Working with our Payroll Manager, you will support weekly payroll-processing for 450 teammates, both union and non-union.
  • Attention to detail. Perform all monthly, quarterly, and year-end payroll tax reporting compliance and submission.
  • You will manage the company's certified payroll auditing and prepare union fringe calculations for 15 unions.
  • Timely task management. Collection of timesheets, documentation from subcontractors, and logging results into the compliance system.
  • Report Guru. Managing and processing mileage and expense reports for 300 teammates.
  • Outside the box thinking. Our culture supports continuous improvement to take action on improving process efficiencies.
  • Brand ambassador. Granger has earned a positive reputation in the construction industry. Our teammates illustrate our values in each conversation and interaction: trust, honesty, fairness, integrity, compassion, and appreciation for the team contribution.

What Experience You Bring

  • Payroll processing skills. Understanding the process and payroll laws. You've done this before, and it shows!
  • Professional demeanor. High-level professionalism and integrity in all interactions. Ability to maintain confidentiality and effective interpersonal skills.
  • Prioritization and organization. Manage multiple tasks while being efficient and timely.
  • Walk the walk and talk the talk. Lead by example and excellent verbal and written communication.
  • Trust your instincts. You can anticipate needs, take initiative, and proactively address issues.
  • A true go-getter. You have tenacity to self-start and accomplish tasks, follow-through, and meet deadlines.
  • Technologically savvy. Being able to pick up computer programs and new technologies quickly will aid in your success.

What Sets You Apart

You will really stand out if you have the following skillsets:

  • Construction industry experience. Our industry is one of a kind. Experience with union and non-union payroll is desired. High level of emotional intelligence. You get people. You can effectively and successfully work with anyone.
  • Comprehensive understanding of payroll law. Payroll taxes, pre-tax and post-tax deductions, vacation accrual, union fringe, overtime laws, etc.


We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

 

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