Payroll Analyst Contractor
Accounting & Finance, IT
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Posted on Aug 13, 2026
We are looking for a skilled Payroll Analyst to join our team on a contract basis at our Scottsdale, AZ corporate headquarters. This position will provide hands-on support for payroll operations serving approximately 3,500 employees across the U.S. and Canada.
The successful candidate will contribute to payroll processing, compliance activities, audits, reconciliations, reporting, and system-related projects. This is an excellent opportunity for a payroll professional who enjoys solving problems, leveraging technology to improve processes, and making an immediate impact in a fast-paced environment.
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.
More details about our company benefits can be found here:
| We are committed to sourcing, attracting, and hiring high-performance innovators, while providing all candidates a positive recruitment experience that builds our brand as a great place to work. |
Requirements:
- 4+ years proven experience processing payroll in a large, multi-state environment, including pay data entry and data validation.
- Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel required, including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, formulas, data validation, filtering, and analysis of large datasets. Strong Excel skills are essential, as Excel is a primary tool used for payroll reconciliations, audits, reporting, and data analysis.
- Experience performing payroll reconciliations, audit support, and payroll data analysis in a complex payroll environment.
- Strong familiarity with Federal, State and Local withholding and unemployment compliance requirements.
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) strongly preferred.
- Experience with ADP Vantage strongly preferred. Experience with Workday, UKG/Kronos, Oracle HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, or similar HCM/payroll platforms a plus.
- Self-motivated, analytical, and detail-oriented with strong problem-solving, decision-making, prioritization, and multitasking abilities.
- Experience supporting payroll system implementations, upgrades, integrations, testing, and process improvement initiatives preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead meetings, facilitate discussions, present findings, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to apply payroll best practices and a continuous improvement mindset to enhance operational effectiveness and support business objectives.
- Demonstrated interest in leveraging automation, emerging technologies, and AI-enabled tools as part of day-to-day work activities to improve business processes, efficiency, reporting, and decision-making.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong team orientation including recognition of the importance of respect, communication, compromise, reliability, knowledge-sharing, and engagement within the team and with other groups.
- Demonstrated commitment to customer service, continuous improvement, and delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience preferred.
- Experience with Canadian payroll requirements a plus but not required.
- Support bi-weekly payrolls to ensure timely and accurate payment of wages for approximately 3,500 employees across the US and Canada.
- Research and resolve employee inquiries relating to payroll questions and issues, via email, phone and in person.
- Respond to inquiries to internal groups such as HR Shared Services and HR Benefits.
- Partner with Human Resources to maintain payroll system data integrity and ensure accurate calculation of pay rates, taxes, and other payroll-related transactions.
- Develop, analyze, and maintain complex payroll reconciliation workbooks utilizing intermediate to advanced Excel functionality; prepare audit and reconciliation reports, validate payroll results, and research discrepancies.
- Support payroll-related general ledger reconciliations and ensure alignment between payroll and financial reporting.
- Analyze payroll data, trends, and anomalies to identify discrepancies, control gaps, process inefficiencies, and opportunities to improve payroll accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.
- Support ongoing federal, state, and local payroll tax compliance and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Support year-end payroll activities, including W-2, T4, tax reconciliation, and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Support internal, external, SOX, financial, and regulatory audit requests and reporting requirements.
- Support workers' compensation, 401(k), state and local tax, and other payroll-related audits, reviews, and inquiries.
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for payroll systems, including troubleshooting system issues, testing enhancements, validating payroll system updates, and supporting process improvements.
- Lead and actively participate in payroll-related projects, including payroll system implementations, integrations, upgrades, testing activities, process improvements, and year-end payroll updates.
- Collaborate with Human Resources, Benefits, Compensation, Finance, Accounting, Tax, IT, and external payroll vendors; facilitate cross-functional discussions to resolve payroll issues, accounting discrepancies, and process improvement opportunities.
- Identify opportunities to streamline payroll processes through automation, standardization, AI-enabled solutions, and best practices while maintaining appropriate controls and data security.
- Document payroll procedures and maintain process documentation to support operational excellence and business continuity.
- Maintain confidentiality of payroll and other information.
- Perform other duties, special projects, and cross-functional initiatives in support of departmental and business objectives as assigned.