Senior Payroll Specialist

BioLife Solutions is repeatedly named one of Washington’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, a list curated by Seattle Business Magazine. We welcome you to apply to join our dynamic, high-energy team. Here you will find a performance-based, family-oriented environment where authentic communication and treating colleagues with respect are required. Our employees receive a competitive benefits package, which includes generous company stock awards and a 401k matching program.

BioLife Solutions is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of class-defining cell and gene therapy bioproduction tools and services. Our solutions facilitate basic and applied research and commercialization of new therapies by maintaining the health of biologic source material and finished products during manufacturing, storage, and distribution. Our solutions offer commercial companies and clinical researchers significant improvement in shelf life and post-preservation viability and function of biologic materials. Our tools portfolio includes our proprietary, serum-free and protein-free, fully defined CryoStor® freeze media and HypoThermosol® shipping and storage media, ThawSTAR® family of automated, water-free thawing products, evo® cold chain management system, and Custom Biogenic Systems high-capacity storage freezers. Services include SciSafe biologic and pharmaceutical materials storage. For more information, please visit: www.biolifesolutions.com.

General Summary and Purpose:
The Senior Payroll Specialist is a core team member of the Accounting Department. The Senior Payroll Specialist is responsible for assisting with the day-to-day operations of the payroll department.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Processing bi-weekly payroll which includes monitoring the time tracking system,
  maintaining and entering all payroll data for each processing, auditing, and resolving
  issues.
• Payroll Administration for several business entities and with 200+ team members.
•  Maintain database of personnel information and accurate payroll records.
•  Conduct regularly scheduled audits of payroll records to ensure continued accuracy.
•  Prepare paychecks/direct deposits to ensure that employees are paid on time and in the
  correct amount.
•  Cooperate with different departments to increase payroll service performance.
•  Maintain Child Support and Garnishment.
•  Familiarity with General Ledgers processes for Payroll entry into the accounting system.
•  Processing third party funding and record keeping
•  Data conversion for possible HRIS system change.
•  Collect, verify, and record employee attendance, including hours worked.
•  Compute wages, commissions, and deductions.
•  Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax laws, including remittance of payroll
  taxes.
• Handle employee complaints about incorrect payments and resolve discrepancies.
•  Maintains up-to-date knowledge of city, state, provincial, local, and federal legislation
  affecting payroll
•  Act as a resource for payroll special projects
•  Maintains confidentiality of team member and company data

Other Duties :

 Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of
activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties,
responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Reporting Relationships:
This position reports to: Payroll Manager

Job Requirements:

• Computer literacy, including Excel, Word, Outlook, MS Teams, Report writing, Adobe.
• Experience in handling complex payroll issues and exceptions.
•  Organizational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple goals.
• Ability to work well as an individual and as part of a high performing team.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting principles related to Payroll.
•  Experience with multi-state payroll processing and taxation.
•  Ability to collaborate with managers to ensure that timekeeping records are accurate
  and submitted in a timely manner.
•  Experience working for a public company or heavily regulated industry.
  Job Specifications:
•  Bachelor’s degree in accounting or associate degree with equivalent experience
  preferred
•  5+ years of payroll processing and timekeeping experience
• Knowledge of payroll industry software tools, ADP, Net Suites, UKG, Ceridian
  preferred.
• Familiarity with payroll Time Keeping Systems. Kronos, APD, UKG, Ceridian
  preferred.
• Experience with Sarbane-Oxley standards.
• Payroll Certification APA encouraged.
  

BioLife Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. 

BioLife Solutions provides a substance-free workplace, and all offers of employment will be contingent on opiate drug test and background check.

The US base salary range for this position at full-time is  $73,542- $110,313  per year.  Our salary ranges are determined by position, level, location, and market competitive benchmarks.  Individual pay within a level is determined by work location (including geographic pay zone region), job related skills, experience, education, and training. 

The BioLife Solutions total rewards program includes, but is not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401K with generous match, life and disability insurance as well as time off programs of Vacation and Sick time.  Additionally, we believe in our team members sharing the success of our business and therefore we provide stock equity grants as a part of our total rewards package.