HR Services Payroll Analyst

Position Purpose:

The payroll analyst position will be responsible for all aspects of processing payroll to ensure a timely and accurate delivery of payroll and related reporting for all Home Depot associates in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Key Responsibilities: ? 25% Administer a high volume weekly payroll process utilizing a computer based system ? 20% Collect, analyze, update, and reconcile payroll and benefit data on a weekly basis ? 15% Serve as liaison between users, vendors, and I.T. to research and resolve issues ? 15% Create and implement auditing tools to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and Local authorities, and to eliminate erroneous payments ? 10% Contribute to SOX audit compliance ? 15% Frequently review error logs and transactions to ensure system is running as required

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
? Position reports to the Sr. HR Services Business Analyst
? No direct responsibility for supervising others

Travel Requirements: ? Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements: ? Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:
? Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications: ? Must be eighteen years of age or older. ? Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications: ? Extensive experience in gross-to-net payroll, state and federal pay rule calculations and payroll regulations ? Familiarity with Tesseract HR/Payroll System ? CPP is preferrred. ? Canada Payroll and Pay Rule processing is preferred ? Expatriate and Foreign National payroll processing is preferred

Minimum Education:
? The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:
? 3

Competencies:
? Solid understanding of payroll principles, practices, and standards.
? At least 3 years recent experience administering a complete high volume multi-state payroll process for a large company.
? Strong Analytical Skills.
? Strong oral and written communication skills.
? Detailed oriented and strong follow up skills.