Sr Payroll Specialist

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Life at F5 is never dull! For over 20 years, we have been the industry leader in application delivery; and today, we are helping our customers thrive in the new cloud future. The world’s largest enterprises, service providers, financial and educational institutions, government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of security, cloud, and mobility trends.

We are looking for a Sr Payroll Specialist to join the Seattle based Payroll team with a dynamic opportunity to work on a variety of Payroll accounting tasks, projects, and initiatives to take F5’s Payroll Team to the next level! This role will be encouraged to own the processes on which you work. This will include contributing to process improvement ideas and the deployment of new processes related to evolving business requirements. This will also include understanding and identifying areas of risk within those processes and creating and performing controls to address those risks. Overall, this role offers a great opportunity for someone who is ready to make a difference with the help and support of a fantastic team.

What will you do?

This role will process semi-monthly payroll using ADP Globalview in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local regulations.

As a Sr Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for:

• Lead the end-to-end payroll process for a multi-state semi-monthly payroll using ADP Globalview, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance.

• Generate reporting to validate new hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, status changes and terminations between Workday and ADP. 

• Accurately process termination payments in compliance with state regulations.

• Accurately process leave of absence payments to employees in compliance with company policy.

• Oversee payroll reporting and payments, ensuring adherence to company policy and federal, state and IRS regulations.

• Manage the 401K & HSA funding for semi-monthly payroll and off cycle payments accurately and timely.

• Generate and review payroll reports required for SOX compliance.

• Audit quarterly payroll records to ensure correct YTD taxable wages and taxes.

• Contributes to managing, reporting and processing of time reporting system (eTime).

• Compute wage and Overtime payments accurately according to FLSA.

• Communicate with employees on a variety of payroll topics and questions professionally and accurately.

• Validate the data from the daily integrations from Workday to ADP.

• Oversee the annual W2 process, ensuring full compliance with government reporting requirements for payroll taxes, withholding and employer contributions.

• Create and process spreadsheet loaders for various payroll deductions and payroll payments during payroll processing.

• Conduct audit of benefit deductions each pay period between Workday and Globaview.

• Update 401K & Match deductions each month and validate.

• Available to answer and research complex payroll related issues with employees, human resources, accounting and legal.

• Contribute to process improvements and process documentation for payroll processes and procedures.

• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job.  However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in Excel.

• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.

• Ability to meet or exceed deadlines.

• Understanding of full payroll cycle.

• High level of confidentiality is required.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Attention to detail, organized and analytical.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team environment.

• Excellent at problem solving complex payroll related issues.

Qualifications

• 7+ Years multi-state payroll experience in a high-volume environment.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

• FPC designation preferred.

• Understanding of appropriate tax jurisdiction based on work and resident state.

• Understanding of Payroll Tax compliance.

• Experience with Workday, ADP Globalview and eTime is a plus.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table. 

• Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.

• Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).    

• F5 is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.