Payroll Specialist
Job Location:
Job Location:
Highlands Ranch, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
14 hours ago
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Benefits:
- Opportunity for advancement
- Competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
The Role
In a house of fifteen children nobody got skipped at the table.
In a house of fifteen children nobody got skipped at the table.
That is the whole job restated in modern terms. Every person who works here trusts us with the most personal
thing a company handles for them which is whether they get paid correctly and on time. That trust is not a back
office detail. It is the promise underneath every other promise we make to our team.
We are hiring a Payroll Specialist to own that promise for six restaurants and one corporate office. This is a
specialist seat not a generalist one. Payroll processing is the center of the role and you will run the full weekly
cycle from timekeeping review through funding reporting and reconciliation. Beyond the cycle you support the
People team wherever payroll and HR overlap because the two are never fully separate.
This role sits at the intersection of People Finance and the restaurants themselves. You will work closely with
the Director of People the Director of Finance the VP of Finance and all six General Managers.
What Youll Own
The Weekly Payroll Cycle: Full processing for six restaurant locations and the corporate office in Toast
Payroll. Timekeeping review tips adjustments retro pay terminations funding and post-processing
verification. On time every week with no exceptions and no surprises.
Extreme Attention to Detail: This is the non-negotiable of the role. Payroll is a job where being ninety-nine
percent right is still wrong for somebody. You catch the misclassified punch the duplicated adjustment the
rate that changed without paperwork and the number that does not tie before anyone downstream sees it.
The Audit Trail: Track every addition and edit to payroll on a weekly basis. If a number changed we know
what changed who requested it when it was entered and why. Nothing moves through payroll unlogged.
Weekly Reporting to Finance and Ownership: Produce clean weekly summary reporting that Finance and
Ownership can read and act on. Your reports become part of how leadership sees the business so they need
to be accurate consistent and delivered on schedule.
Findings and Error Escalation: When you find an issue that traces back to a restaurant you bring it to the
Director of People with the detail and documentation needed to correct it at the store level. You are not the
enforcement arm. You are the person who makes sure the right leader has the right information early enough
to fix it.
Labor Compliance: Working knowledge of current federal and Colorado wage and hour law as it applies to
payroll. Overtime tip credit and tip pooling mechanics minimum wage rules meal and rest period treatment
final pay requirements and recordkeeping. When something in the file does not look compliant you say so.
Reading Labor Like an Operator: The best payroll people in this industry know when a schedule or a punch
pattern does not make sense. Hours in a position that should not have been staffed that day a salaried
manager coded hourly overtime that appeared without a reason. You notice it because you understand how
a restaurant actually runs not just how a spreadsheet looks.
SOPs and Documentation: Build and maintain written standard operating procedures as your process
solidifies. We are always setting ourselves up for expansion and for posterity. If the process only works when
you are the one doing it it is not built yet. Everything you own should be documentable teachable and
repeatable.
Support to the People Team As Needed: Onboarding paperwork benefits deduction accuracy
employment verifications personnel file integrity and the day to day places where HR and payroll meet.
Payroll comes first and this is support work not a second job. When the cycle is clean and current you lend a
hand as needed.
The Line: Everything we do traces back to two kitchens in Jerez Zacatecas. Most of the people whose
paychecks you touch are supporting families with them. Treating that work as sacred rather than
administrative is part of the job.
What Were Looking For
Minimum 2 years of hands on payroll processing experience: You have owned a cycle end to end not
just assisted with one.
Toast Payroll and Toast POS experience required: Multi-unit strongly preferred. We are looking for
someone who already knows where the system helps and where it needs a human watching it.
Restaurant industry experience: This matters more than it looks like it should. Tips tip pooling split shifts
overtime patterns and seasonal swings behave differently in restaurants and the person in this seat needs to
recognize when labor positioning looks questionable rather than just processing it as entered.
Current working knowledge of labor law as it applies to payroll: At both the federal and Colorado level
with the discipline to keep that knowledge current as rules change.
A documenter by instinct: You write things down you leave a trail and you build the procedure while you
are learning the process.
Direct and kind: You raise the issue early you raise it to the right person and you do not let a discrepancy
sit until it becomes a bigger one.
Discretion: You will handle compensation personnel and confidential information every week. That
information stops with you.
Degree preferred but not required: What matters is what youve built and who youve developed not whats
on your wall.
Nice to Have
Bilingual English/Spanish. Most of our teams first language is Spanish and being known by name matters
more here than anywhere else.
Restaurant365 (R365) experience particularly payroll exports and the payroll to accounting handoff.
Experience building payroll journal entry mappings or supporting period close.
Multi-entity payroll experience across separate EINs.
Benefits administration or deduction auditing exposure.
Comfort in spreadsheets at a level beyond the basics
Compensation & Benefits
Salary of $65000.
Benefits package including health insurance PTO and meal benefits at all LDP locations.
Hybrid schedule: in office Monday through Wednesday remote Thursday and Friday.
A corporate team that treats support functions as essential not as overhead.
Send your resume and a brief note about why this role interests you to Danny Ramirez directly at
Wed rather have a conversation than read a cover letter
What Youll Own
The Weekly Payroll Cycle: Full processing for six restaurant locations and the corporate office in Toast
Payroll. Timekeeping review tips adjustments retro pay terminations funding and post-processing
verification. On time every week with no exceptions and no surprises.
Extreme Attention to Detail: This is the non-negotiable of the role. Payroll is a job where being ninety-nine
percent right is still wrong for somebody. You catch the misclassified punch the duplicated adjustment the
rate that changed without paperwork and the number that does not tie before anyone downstream sees it.
The Audit Trail: Track every addition and edit to payroll on a weekly basis. If a number changed we know
what changed who requested it when it was entered and why. Nothing moves through payroll unlogged.
Weekly Reporting to Finance and Ownership: Produce clean weekly summary reporting that Finance and
Ownership can read and act on. Your reports become part of how leadership sees the business so they need
to be accurate consistent and delivered on schedule.
Findings and Error Escalation: When you find an issue that traces back to a restaurant you bring it to the
Director of People with the detail and documentation needed to correct it at the store level. You are not the
enforcement arm. You are the person who makes sure the right leader has the right information early enough
to fix it.
Labor Compliance: Working knowledge of current federal and Colorado wage and hour law as it applies to
payroll. Overtime tip credit and tip pooling mechanics minimum wage rules meal and rest period treatment
final pay requirements and recordkeeping. When something in the file does not look compliant you say so.
Reading Labor Like an Operator: The best payroll people in this industry know when a schedule or a punch
pattern does not make sense. Hours in a position that should not have been staffed that day a salaried
manager coded hourly overtime that appeared without a reason. You notice it because you understand how
a restaurant actually runs not just how a spreadsheet looks.
SOPs and Documentation: Build and maintain written standard operating procedures as your process
solidifies. We are always setting ourselves up for expansion and for posterity. If the process only works when
you are the one doing it it is not built yet. Everything you own should be documentable teachable and
repeatable.
Support to the People Team As Needed: Onboarding paperwork benefits deduction accuracy
employment verifications personnel file integrity and the day to day places where HR and payroll meet.
Payroll comes first and this is support work not a second job. When the cycle is clean and current you lend a
hand as needed.
The Line: Everything we do traces back to two kitchens in Jerez Zacatecas. Most of the people whose
paychecks you touch are supporting families with them. Treating that work as sacred rather than
administrative is part of the job.
What Were Looking For
Minimum 2 years of hands on payroll processing experience: You have owned a cycle end to end not
just assisted with one.
Toast Payroll and Toast POS experience required: Multi-unit strongly preferred. We are looking for
someone who already knows where the system helps and where it needs a human watching it.
Restaurant industry experience: This matters more than it looks like it should. Tips tip pooling split shifts
overtime patterns and seasonal swings behave differently in restaurants and the person in this seat needs to
recognize when labor positioning looks questionable rather than just processing it as entered.
Current working knowledge of labor law as it applies to payroll: At both the federal and Colorado level
with the discipline to keep that knowledge current as rules change.
A documenter by instinct: You write things down you leave a trail and you build the procedure while you
are learning the process.
Direct and kind: You raise the issue early you raise it to the right person and you do not let a discrepancy
sit until it becomes a bigger one.
Discretion: You will handle compensation personnel and confidential information every week. That
information stops with you.
Degree preferred but not required: What matters is what youve built and who youve developed not whats
on your wall.
Nice to Have
Bilingual English/Spanish. Most of our teams first language is Spanish and being known by name matters
more here than anywhere else.
Restaurant365 (R365) experience particularly payroll exports and the payroll to accounting handoff.
Experience building payroll journal entry mappings or supporting period close.
Multi-entity payroll experience across separate EINs.
Benefits administration or deduction auditing exposure.
Comfort in spreadsheets at a level beyond the basics
Compensation & Benefits
Salary of $65000.
Benefits package including health insurance PTO and meal benefits at all LDP locations.
Hybrid schedule: in office Monday through Wednesday remote Thursday and Friday.
A corporate team that treats support functions as essential not as overhead.
Send your resume and a brief note about why this role interests you to Danny Ramirez directly at
Wed rather have a conversation than read a cover letter
Flexible work from home options available.
Compensation: $65000.00 per year
Born into a family with 15 children Jose Ramirez was lucky number 7. He started his pursuit of this dream as a 13-year-old bagboy at a grocery store in what is known as The Highlands area of Denver. He later worked as a server at Las Palmas working 60-70 hours per week eventually becoming the server manager. He would work so much that he would oftentimes sleep in his car while providing for his wife Martha and his two sons Luis and Daniel. Jose saved up enough money to open up the first Los Dos Potrillos location in Centennial in 2002. Jose opened this first location of Los Dos with just $5.18 left in his bank account. Having sunk everything he had into his restaurant Jose would tell these first customers of Los Dos that if they didnt like the food hed buy it for them. Now with six locations in Centennial (the original location) Littleton Highlands Ranch Parker Northglenn and Castle Rock Los Dos Potrillos provide customers in the South Metro area with Real Mexican Food while maintaining a family-friendly hole-in-the-wall experience thanks to years of hard work by Jose Ramirez and his family.
Required Experience:
IC
