Payroll Specialist
Dlr Group
Salary undisclosed
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Description
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, you’re 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:
We’re 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, let’s 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.
Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position, including temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including OPT and CPT), TN, J, H-1B, or those who need employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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.
About this role
DLR Group, an employee-owned design firm based in Omaha, is seeking a Payroll Specialist for a temporary position that centers on full-cycle payroll processing and compliance. You'll handle biweekly payroll runs using ADP, manage employee data across payroll and accounting systems, process timesheets, and ensure adherence to federal, state, and local tax requirements. The role also involves supporting annual compensation cycles, completing E-Verify submissions, preparing audit-ready reports, and fielding employee questions about pay and deductions.
This position suits someone with at least two years of payroll or HR operations experience who combines strong technical skills—particularly with payroll systems and Microsoft Office—with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. You'll need meticulous attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the adaptability to handle shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment. Experience with multi-state payroll, accounting practices, or Deltek Vision software is a plus, as is prior work with consulting or architecture/engineering firms.
The role is in-office in Omaha, Nebraska, following DLR Group's four-day office model with Friday flexibility. Note that visa sponsorship is not available for this temporary position.
How this employer is doing
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- Recent Acquisition
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Typical pay for this role
$100,000
Typical range: $80,000 to $100,000
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