Senior Payroll Analyst

Purpose

The Senior Payroll Analyst role supports complex payroll processing, reporting, and tax compliance for EFCO’s U.S. and Canadian operations, ensuring accuracy across payroll systems, supporting audits, and contributing to continuous process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Payroll Processing and Reconciliation (40%)

• Prepare and audit complex biweekly payrolls, validate earnings, deductions, and taxes, and ensure timely and accurate pay delivery across jurisdictions.

System Maintenance and Process Enhancements (25%)

• Support payroll system upgrades, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Identify improvement opportunities for workflows, controls, and reporting.

Tax Compliance and Reporting Support (15%)

• Assist with multi-jurisdictional payroll tax filings, reconciliations, and year-end processing, including W-2s and T4s.

Reporting and Analytics (10%)

• Develop, maintain, and distribute payroll reports for finance, HR, and leadership.
• Ensure data accuracy and compliance with reporting standards.

Audit Support and Documentation (10%)

• Prepare payroll audit documentation and support internal and external audit processes.
• Maintain accurate records of payroll actions and approvals.

Additional duties may be assigned to meet organizational goals and priorities. Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity, may be added, deleted, or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing, to meet organizational goals and priorities.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business required.
  
  
• Experience:
  • 4–6 years of payroll experience with multi-state and/or Canadian payrolls preferred.
  • Experience with tax filings and year-end processing required.
    
    
• Certification(s) and License(s): CPP designation preferred or in progress.
  
  
• Computer Skills: Strong Excel skills and familiarity with payroll systems required.
  
  
• Other Requirements: Must have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to handle confidential information.

Core Competencies

• Technical Skills: Proficiently uses job-specific tools, systems, and procedures to perform tasks effectively.
  
  
• Analysis: Breaks down complex information to identify patterns, relationships, and root causes.
  
  
• Judgment: Makes sound decisions by evaluating facts, risks, and potential outcomes.
  
  
• Responsibility: Takes ownership of actions, tasks, and outcomes; follows through on commitments.
  
  
• Communication: Communicates effectively verbally and in writing, producing clear, concise, and professional content and adapting style to audience and setting.

Working Arrangement

• This role will work 100% onsite at our Des Moines, IA headquarters.

Physical Demands

Sedentary: Exerting up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.

To ensure a safe work environment while meeting the physical demands of the job you must be able to perform the following physical and mental tasks with or with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Balancing- Maintaining equilibrium when walking, climbing, crouching, etc: Constantly
• Repetitive Motions- Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers: Occasionally
• Sitting/Standing- Must be able to sit or stand as required for extended periods of time: Frequently
• Stooping- Bending at the waist: Occasionally
• Lifting motions or lifting objects up to 10 lbs.: Occasionally
• Walking: Frequently
• Climbing- Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles etc.: Occasionally
• Hearing: Frequently
• Talking: Frequently
• Capacity to think, concentrate and focus for long periods of time: Frequently
• Ability to read complex documents in the English language: Frequently
• Capacity to reason and make sound decisions: Frequently
• Ability to write complex documents in the English language: Frequently
• Capacity to express thoughts orally: Frequently
• Expertise in:
• Ability to regularly perform all job functions at company office or worksite
• Ability to withstand environmental conditions such as extreme heat or cold, grass, wind, sand, fumes, odors, gases, noises. Etc.