Part-Time Payroll Manager (Remote)

Title: Payroll and Benefits Manager

Location: Remote

Reports to: Principal, Human Resources

Role: Part Time (24 hours per week)

Position Overview:

AMA Group is looking for an experienced Payroll and Benefits Manager to join our HR team. The primary responsibility of this role is to manage multi-entity payroll using Paylocity. You will be responsible for preparing and processing bi-weekly payroll for AMA Group and its business units across all national offices.

Role Responsibilities:

As the Payroll and Benefits Manager, you will be tasked with the following responsibilities:

• Payroll operations for multiple entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness in payroll processing
• Utilize expertise in Paylocity to maintain payroll records, process payroll, handle tax filings, and resolve any payroll discrepancies
• Generate reports for payroll processing and reporting, including for Payroll-Based Journal and GL and labor budget reporting
• Complete reporting and payment of weekly, quarterly, and year-end taxes
• Collaborate with HR and Finance teams to streamline processes, implement best practices, and enhance payroll-related systems and procedures
• Manage employee benefits administration primarily from a payroll perspective, ensuring seamless integration between payroll and benefits functions
• Assist with time tracking, manage paid leave paperwork and relevant reporting
• Familiarity with Deltek to supplement payroll operations where needed
• Partner with your HR peers and the Controller on payroll issues

Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field

Experience:

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in payroll management, multi-entity environment required
• Paylocity experience required
• Working knowledge with Deltek is preferred but not required
• In-depth knowledge of payroll processes, taxation, and compliance regulations at the federal, state, and local levels
• Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks, successfully work independently, and strong organization and computer skills
• Working knowledge of New York and California Payroll/Benefits/Leave laws

Who We Are?

AMA Group is considered an industry leader in the design of MEP/FP building systems for media, broadcast, and production facilities, including sound stage campuses, having a portfolio of over 1000 such completed projects, as well as a diverse array of corporate, financial, education and residential mixed-use, and high-rise clients. AMA Group employs 200+ dedicated and talented professionals with 40+ licensed professional engineers and many others holding a variety of technology, energy, and sustainability-related certifications. Founded in 2000 in New York City, we’ve grown to provide a comprehensive suite of services across national offices in New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, and Texas.

The Employee Experience

At AMA, people are at the heart of everything we are and what we do. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where all our employees flourish, individually as a team; with employee experience at our focal point, we are dedicated to ensuring employees’ development, wellness, and overall experiences are satisfying and rewarding. We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package to our team members and provide an open, honest, and fun work environment. We were voted 2023 Best Medium Companies to Work for in New York, New Jersey, and Los Angeles.

Salary: $48 - $58 per hour (100K – 120K full-time equivalent). This role is benefits eligible.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but is not limited to, relevant experience, time in the role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

To all recruitment agencies: AMA Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of AMA Group without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of AMA Group. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Our company is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis [” protected characteristics’] including, but not limited to race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, state, including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, the age for individuals over forty years of age, sexual orientation, the military and veteran status of any person, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.