Top Payroll Jobs in Boston, MA

Administers biweekly payroll for more than 300 employees and program participants, including audits, adjustments, garnishments, tax compliance, reconciliations, and year-end reporting. Manages employee benefits enrollment, invoices, retirement contributions, vendor relationships, and compliance documentation. Serves as ADP Workforce Now HRIS administrator, maintains employee data, supports audits and reporting, assists employees with payroll and benefits questions, and improves HR processes and system utilization.

Oversee the City's payroll operations, including payroll processing, audits, reconciliations, accounting, compliance, payroll reporting, and employee compensation records. Manage payroll systems and vendor relationships, troubleshoot discrepancies, support timekeeping initiatives, monitor payroll budgets, and ensure compliance with laws, contracts, and collective bargaining agreements. Provide guidance and training to departmental payroll staff, collaborate with Finance, HR, Treasury, Retirement, Legal, and IT, and act as Payroll Director when needed.

Manage end-to-end multi-state payroll processing, including payroll approvals, taxes, deductions, garnishments, reconciliations, accruals, reporting, audits, and year-end activities. Ensure compliance with payroll laws and company policies, maintain controls and records, administer payroll systems, resolve complex employee inquiries, and partner with HR, business leaders, and external vendors.

Supports payroll operations through data validation, reconciliations, reporting, research, issue resolution, audit support, documentation, and process improvement. The intern collaborates with payroll, accounting, tax, and business teams while gaining exposure to finance and accounting activities. This is a fully remote internship requiring full-time student enrollment, analytical skills, Microsoft Office experience, confidentiality, accuracy, and willingness to learn.

Processes accurate, timely payroll while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. Handles payroll data entry, audits, deductions, garnishments, payments, and employee inquiries. Resolves paycheck and timekeeping issues, explains net pay calculations, maintains payroll documentation, creates SOPs, supports process improvements, and coordinates with Payroll Accounting to maintain employee record integrity.

Leads U.S. and Canadian payroll tax compliance, filings, payments, audits, reconciliations, year-end reporting, controls, and regulatory monitoring. Manages a team of six payroll tax professionals while partnering with Payroll Operations, Technology, Product Management, HR, Accounting, vendors, auditors, and government agencies. Drives process improvements, system enhancements, testing, strategic initiatives, and organizational change across complex, multi-jurisdiction payroll operations.

Leads U.S. and Canadian payroll tax compliance, including filings, payments, audits, reconciliations, year-end reporting, regulatory monitoring, and agency relations. Manages and develops a team of six payroll tax professionals, establishes internal controls, drives process improvements, and partners with Payroll Operations, Technology, Product Management, HR, Finance, vendors, auditors, and government agencies on system enhancements and strategic initiatives.

Manage end-to-end, multi-state payroll operations, including complex compensation calculations, data imports, reconciliations, audits, compliance, and discrepancy resolution. Lead and develop the payroll team, maintain controls and documentation, support ADP Workforce Now processes, and partner with HR, Finance, Operations, and field leadership to improve payroll accuracy and efficiency.

Resolve complex payroll corrections, amended returns, tax notices, and multi-jurisdiction payroll issues for employer customers. Diagnose root causes, coordinate with tax operations, product, and engineering, explain resolutions to partners, and help document and automate recurring processes. The role requires payroll-provider experience across prior-quarter and prior-year amendments, state and local taxes, agency notices, and Canadian equivalents.

Leads end-to-end U.S. payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing. Oversees multi-state payroll, tax compliance, reconciliations, controls, audits, vendor relationships, reporting, system enhancements, and process improvements. Partners with Finance, Accounting, HR, Legal, and other stakeholders while resolving complex payroll issues. Provides leadership, coaching, and development to the payroll team and maintains scalable documentation and procedures.

Ensures accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing through auditing, reconciliations, variance analysis, payroll tax administration, accounting support, and issue resolution. Partners with HR, Finance, Benefits, HRIS, employees, and vendors to resolve complex payroll inquiries, support audits, maintain controls, and improve payroll systems and processes. The role also supports payroll tax compliance, year-end activities, testing, data validation, and employee deductions.

Processes payroll data, wage payments, garnishments, special checks, tax and unemployment filings, and new-hire paperwork. Audits time entries, updates employee payroll information, reconciles payroll-related accounts, prepares management reports, and maintains tax and W-2 records. Communicates with employees, payroll vendors, and taxing authorities to resolve issues and prevent penalties. This routine support role operates under close supervision and requires accuracy, organization, and payroll or accounting experience.

Process end-to-end payroll and timekeeping, including wage calculations, deductions, pay adjustments, certified payroll, and discrepancy resolution. Support HR administration through onboarding, separations, employment verifications, background checks, and HRIS updates. Ensure compliance with payroll taxes, federal contractor requirements, prevailing wage laws, and employment regulations while safeguarding confidential employee information.

Produces and audits payroll for unionized, multi-state employees covered by numerous collective bargaining agreements. Responsibilities include calculating union benefits, pension and 401(k) contributions, dues, retroactive pay, overtime premiums, special payments, and payroll deductions. The role prepares reports, maintains confidential payroll data, supports payroll system testing and configuration, and collaborates with HR, HRIS, benefits, and payroll teams. Requires 0–2 years of payroll experience, Excel analysis skills, and familiarity with systems such as Workday or ADP.

Lead semi-monthly payroll processing for approximately 800 U.S. and Canadian employees. Ensure compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local tax regulations; resolve payroll issues; coordinate benefits deductions and external vendors; support year-end filings, audits, and reporting; improve payroll processes; and mentor a Payroll Administrator.

Lead semi-monthly U.S. and Canadian payroll for approximately 800 employees, ensuring accurate processing and compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local regulations. Resolve payroll issues, coordinate benefits deductions and vendors, manage year-end tax filings and audits, provide reporting and analysis, improve payroll processes, and mentor a Payroll Administrator.

Manage complex U.S. and Canadian payroll tax compliance, including audits, agency inquiries, filings, reconciliations, tax adjustments, employee tax configurations, and W-2/W-2c and T4 reporting. Resolve escalated tax matters, oversee registrations and vendor coordination, identify control gaps, and improve payroll tax processes while ensuring regulatory accuracy and timely reporting.

Oversee end-to-end multi-state payroll processing for approximately 450 employees, including payroll inputs, adjustments, audits, reconciliations, tax compliance, and issue resolution. Serve as the Workday Payroll subject matter expert, managing configurations, testing, controls, and change documentation. Coordinate with HR, HRIS, Finance, employees, and third-party payroll providers to resolve issues, maintain data integrity, support regulatory updates, and improve payroll processes.

Processes semimonthly U.S. payroll, including wages, deductions, benefits, garnishments, and multi-state tax filings. Supports payroll tax reconciliations, year-end W-2 processing, tax notices, and international payroll coordination with external providers. Collaborates with HR, Legal, and Finance, uses Excel and AI-powered tools for validation and reconciliation, and escalates complex tax or compliance matters.

Provides end-to-end payroll processing and customer support for multiple managed payroll clients. Responsibilities include resolving cases and escalations, configuring Workday payroll components, supporting year-end processing, troubleshooting tax and audit reports, conducting client calls, documenting procedures, and maintaining service-level, quality, and production standards.

Provides end-to-end payroll processing support for multiple managed customers. Responsibilities include handling payroll cases and escalations, configuring Workday payroll components, supporting year-end processing, troubleshooting tax and audit reports, conducting root cause analyses, leading client calls, maintaining documentation, and meeting service-level and quality metrics.

Provides end-to-end payroll processing and customer support for multiple managed payroll clients. Responsibilities include resolving cases and escalations, meeting service-level targets, configuring Workday payroll components, supporting tax and year-end processes, troubleshooting audit reports, conducting root cause analyses, leading client calls, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with internal and customer teams.

Processes end-to-end payroll for multiple managed customers, including Workday configuration, payroll taxes, deductions, year-end support, audits, and compliance. Resolves customer and internal cases, manages escalations, performs root cause analysis, leads client calls, maintains documentation, and meets service-level, quality, and production targets. The role requires strong payroll expertise, multi-jurisdiction tax knowledge, customer service, analytical skills, and the ability to manage competing deadlines.

Owns nationwide payroll operations, including multi-state tax compliance, wage and hour compliance, payroll controls, vendor governance, systems configuration, reporting, reconciliations, audits, and final payroll approval. Leads the payroll team, manages ADP and related integrations, oversees regulatory filings and notices, and drives automation, process improvement, and internal control effectiveness for a large hourly workforce.

Processes and audits multi-state payroll for healthcare employees, ensuring accurate wages, deductions, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Maintains payroll and HRIS records, reconciles reports and accounts, supports W-2s, tax filings, and audits, resolves employee payroll questions, and partners with HR and Finance on employee status changes and process improvements.