Payroll Specialist

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients our communities and our planet. If this sparks your interest youre in the right place.

We have an opening for a Payroll Specialist. This role can be based in the following cities.

• Omaha Nebraska

Position Summary:

Were looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to join our team! In this role you will be responsible for full-cycle payroll processing using ADP including handling taxes adjustments garnishments and deductions while ensuring accuracy and compliance. Our Payroll Specialist set up and maintain employee data across payroll and accounting systems process and distribute payroll-related information to carriers reconcile discrepancies and provide timely support to variety of stakeholders.

If you love numbers solving problems and take pride in keeping things running seamlessly behind the scenes. This could be the role for you lets talk!

What you will do:

• Accurately process biweekly payroll in alignment with established deadlines policies and controls.
• Enter and maintain payroll data for new hires terminations status changes and compensation adjustments.
• Process employee timesheets and partner with managers to resolve discrepancies promptly.
• Ensure compliance with federal state and local payroll tax requirements including accurate setup updates and timely filing of quarterly and year-end reports.
• Partner with HRIS to monitor and validate employee data integrations ensuring consistency across systems.
• Support annual compensation and bonus cycles to deliver timely accurate payouts with proper documentation.
• Complete required compliance activities including E-Verify submissions for new hires and wage theft notices for compensation or classification changes.
• Prepare and validate payroll reports (e.g. 330 report) and maintain documentation to support audits and compliance reviews.
• Provide timely professional responses to employee inquiries regarding pay deductions and timesheets.
• Collaborate with payroll team to identify workflow improvements that enhance accuracy and efficiency.
• Maintain organized audit-ready payroll records in compliance with legal retention requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 2 or more years of payroll or HR operations experience.
• Experience with payroll systems and electronic recordkeeping
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel Outlook Powerpoint Word)
• Dynamic and collaborative team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment adapts to shifting priorities and ambiguity in a high-growth company.
• Proactive proven ability to work effectively independently with excellent organizational skills and fierce attention to detail
• Exceptional written verbal and interpersonal communication skills used to build trust and meaningful relationships with diverse stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with multi-state payroll processing.
• Experience with general accounting practices and employee benefits
• Experience using Deltek Vision software.
• Experience with a consulting A/E firm in a payroll function.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture engineering interiors planning and building optimization for new builds renovations and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration open information sharing shared risk and reward value-based decision making and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge the ME2040 and the SE2050 and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values commitment creativity environmental stewardship fun integrity ownership sharing teamwork we elevate the human experience through design together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.