Payroll Compliance Lead

Job Description

Perform the duties of Payroll Compliance Lead for DPR Construction and the Family of Companies. This includes ensuring adherence to federal, state, and local wage regulations, maintaining strong internal controls, and driving payroll system & process enhancements. This role serves as the compliance and controls lead, working closely with, and in support of, People Practices, Labor Relations, Legal, Technology, and Finance teams.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to :

• Monitor and research emerging payroll, tax, and labor regulations.
• Interpret and apply wage and hour laws (FLSA, CA Labor Code, Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage and union agreements). Proactively work with applicable teams to implement changes to maintain compliance.
• Audit payroll time records to timekeeping dashboards to ensure compliance with DPR Timekeeping Policy and accuracy of reported hours
• Manage all payroll, union, and tax related audits and coordinate responses to internal & external requests.
• Maintain historical timekeeping records in compliance with audit and retention requirements
• Conduct data integrity checks, enforce segregation of duties (SOD), while establishing and maintaining internal controls
• Develop and maintain SOPs, checklists and training materials for payroll and compliance related processes
• Lead reconciliation and audit processes across systems and functions, ensuring accuracy between systems (Workday, CMiC, payroll to GL) and functional areas (union, garnishments, taxes)
• Ensure that the proprietary nature of payroll information is always protected via the creation of best practices and processes for the team to implement.
• Lead testing and Q&A efforts for major CMiC patch installs and upgrades
• Partner with Technology, People Practices, Legal and Finance on compliance and system initiatives
• Provide support for team and backup for Leads

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DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together-by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.

Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com / careers.