The Payroll Specialist ensures accurate and timely payroll processing while maintaining compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations. This role supports employees and internal teams by managing payroll records, resolving discrepancies, and ensuring timely reporting and payments.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with payroll processing for biweekly payroll cycle
- Ensure proper calculation of wages, overtime, bonuses, and deductions
- Coordinate and process miscellaneous off-cycle payrolls, including final paychecks and severance payments
- Handle payroll adjustments, including retro pay and corrections
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws and company policies
- Manage garnishments, and benefit deductions
- Prepare and distribute payroll reports to leadership and accounting
- Respond to employees and external inquiries in a timely and professional manner
- Provide excellent customer service when communicating with employees
- Stay current on payroll regulations, industry trends, and best practices
- Assist management with special projects and process improvements as needed
- Support year-end processes, including W-2 preparation and audits
Qualifications
- 2+ years of payroll processing experience, preferably in a multi-state environment
- Working knowledge of payroll systems (e.g., Workday, ADP, Paychex, or similar HRIS platforms)
- Understanding of federal, state, and local payroll laws and tax regulations
- Strong attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to meet strict deadlines
- Effective communication and customer service skills
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
Skills Required
- 2+ years of payroll processing experience
- Working knowledge of payroll systems
- Understanding of payroll laws and tax regulations
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Effective communication and customer service skills
- Ability to handle sensitive information
What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions. In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers. From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
