Contractors’ Warehouse —
HR Services Payroll Analyst
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req130017
Category – Human Resources
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Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req130017
Category – Human Resources
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Position Purpose:
The payroll analyst position will be responsible for all aspects of processing payroll to ensure a timely and accurate delivery of payroll and related reporting for all Home Depot associates in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% Administer a high volume weekly payroll process utilizing a computer based system
- 20% Collect, analyze, update, and reconcile payroll and benefit data on a weekly basis
- 15% Serve as liaison between users, vendors, and I.T. to research and resolve issues
- 15% Create and implement auditing tools to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and Local authorities, and to eliminate erroneous payments
- 10% Contribute to SOX audit compliance
- 15% Frequently review error logs and transactions to ensure system is running as required
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- Position reports to the Sr. HR Services Business Analyst
- No direct responsibility for supervising others
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in gross-to-net payroll, state and federal pay rule calculations and payroll regulations
- Familiarity with Tesseract HR/Payroll System
- CPP is preferrred.
- Canada Payroll and Pay Rule processing is preferred
- Expatriate and Foreign National payroll processing is preferred
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 3
Competencies:
- Solid understanding of payroll principles, practices, and standards.
- At least 3 years recent experience administering a complete high volume multi-state payroll process for a large company.
- Strong Analytical Skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Detailed oriented and strong follow up skills.
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req130017
Category – Human Resources
Role Overview
Position Purpose:
The payroll analyst position will be responsible for all aspects of processing payroll to ensure a timely and accurate delivery of payroll and related reporting for all Home Depot associates in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% Administer a high volume weekly payroll process utilizing a computer based system
- 20% Collect, analyze, update, and reconcile payroll and benefit data on a weekly basis
- 15% Serve as liaison between users, vendors, and I.T. to research and resolve issues
- 15% Create and implement auditing tools to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and Local authorities, and to eliminate erroneous payments
- 10% Contribute to SOX audit compliance
- 15% Frequently review error logs and transactions to ensure system is running as required
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- Position reports to the Sr. HR Services Business Analyst
- No direct responsibility for supervising others
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in gross-to-net payroll, state and federal pay rule calculations and payroll regulations
- Familiarity with Tesseract HR/Payroll System
- CPP is preferrred.
- Canada Payroll and Pay Rule processing is preferred
- Expatriate and Foreign National payroll processing is preferred
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 3
Competencies:
- Solid understanding of payroll principles, practices, and standards.
- At least 3 years recent experience administering a complete high volume multi-state payroll process for a large company.
- Strong Analytical Skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Detailed oriented and strong follow up skills.
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Remote/virtual – An associate in a remote/virtual role typically is not required to work from a designated Home Depot location to complete their job duties. Limited or infrequent in-office presence may be required. We also refer to this as location – independent.
Work From Home – Location Specific – An associate in this role primarily works from home but is assigned a THD location and is periodically required to report to their in-office location. Associates must live within the same state and within a commutable distance of their assigned THD location.
Learn more about our 4 different work locations. Additional information will be provided during the application process.
As part of the application process for this role, there will be an on-line assessment. The assessment usually takes about 17 minutes to complete. You will be directed to the assessment link immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the link, you will need to complete it within 72 hours after starting it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as you like within the 72-hour time frame.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about your approach to work and various work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including:
- Professional Experience
- Learning Potential
- Responsibility
- Customer Focus
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here to learn more.
Store Location
GA01
VIRTUAL
Atlanta, GA
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