Payroll Supervisor

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions, trusted by the United States and its allies to address their most significant and complex challenges in science, security and sustainability. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, we have more than 53,000 employees in approximately 80 countries across all 7 continents.

Amentum seeks a Payroll Supervisor to supervise and coordinates activities of workers engaged in recording hours of work, compiling payroll statistics, maintaining payroll control records and calculating payroll for Amentum.

This is a remote-telework role. US Citizenship is required.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Supervises and assists payroll staff in the daily transactional processing of payroll to ensure employees are paid accurately and timely, reports filed timely and systems performing nominally.
• Assigns duties and reviews assigned work for exactness, neatness and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Maintains payroll related accounts and ensures that ledgers are accurate and reconciled for payroll related accounts.
• Performs functional testing of payroll systems to support Business Technology in performance of system upgrades and revisions to ensure payroll modules are working nominally.
• Provides guidance and information to the Payroll Manager and assists in responding to Corporate, Defense Contracting Audit Agency (DCAA) and other outside entities requiring financial data.
• Prepares various accounting papers, schedules exhibits, reconciliation, and summaries in accordance accordance with company Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and various laws.
• Researches and advises upper management concerning accounting treatment of complex transactions to ensure compliance with standards set forth by corporate, Financial Management, federal, state and local authorities.
• Prepares, reviews, and/or approves transactions for timely submittal to support financial activity through the payroll system.
• Advises Amentum staff concerning financial systems access and processes to facilitate interaction with payroll systems.
• Prepares off-cycle paychecks and reconciliations.
• Studies, standardize and document processes and procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
• Addresses complaints to proper people and if necessary adjusts errors within payroll systems.
• Troubleshoots any issues assigned specifically to that segment of payroll processing.
• Recommends assigned staff for training and sufficient resources to obtain established departmental goals and company objectives.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of accounting that includes spreadsheets and relational data bases programs for data processing techniques.
• Knowledge of various computer applications (ex:  Word, Excel, etc.).
• Good communication, effective leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and General Accepted Accounting principles (GAAP).
• Effective decision making and problem solving.
• PeopleSoft experience preferred.

Experience and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in an associated discipline.  Two (2) years in related field can be substituted for each year of the four (4) years of college.
• Four (4) years experience in computerized payroll software. Prefer to have (1) year experience as a lead to a group in providing work direction.
• US Citizenship is required.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans and Labor Laws Posters.