Senior Payroll Administrator
UPS • Full Time
Posted on Tue, Nov 3, 2026
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Job Description
- Internal Job Grade: A13
- Apply by: midnight EDT 11/13
- Performs time and data analysis.
- Prepares, documents, and disburses payroll checks and employee benefit payments.
- Creates database processes to identify payroll exceptions.
- Processes timecard/payroll adjustments and calculates over and underpayments.
- Understands and applies complex union contract rules and pay rates.
- Creates and imports batch transactions for payment processing.
- Understands how different earnings and deductions apply to gross wages for taxation.
- Receives and responds to payroll inquiries and stop payment requests.
- Researches and corrects tax errors for accurate reporting.
- Evaluates current systems, recommends, and develops operating efficiency improvements to adhere to established SLAs.
- Monitors and ensures proper documentation of employee benefit payments.
- Prepares reports illustrating payroll expenditures, including such items as union dues and benefit plan disbursements.
- Audits and administers entitlement accruals and payments.
Career Track Description
Provides administrative or technical support to ensure effective on-going operations. Applies knowledge of established processes and procedures to execute with excellence.
Career Level Description
Requires full proficiency in a range of assignments gained through training and considerable experience. Provides solutions to problems in situations that are atypical or infrequently occurring. Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions. Identifies key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data. Works with limited supervision and often helps less experienced colleagues.
Employment Details
- Employee Type: Permanent
Equal Opportunity Information
UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
Other Criteria: UPS is an equal opportunity employer. UPS does not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
Basic Qualifications
Must be a U.S. Citizen or National of the U.S., an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien authorized to work in the U.S. for this employer.
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What the data says about this job
- Advertised pay for Payroll Administrator: a median of $61,152 across 677 priced postings. Explore the market
- UPS announced 30,000 job cuts on January 29, 2026 and has 20 accounting and finance roles open. Layoff tracker
- UPS's roles typically close in 11 days; the market median is 14 days. Time to close
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