Payroll & Compensation Analyst II - Detroit, MI

At DT Midstream, we've got the energy to achieve great things! DT Midstream owns and operates a diverse, integrated portfolio of midstream pipeline, storage and gathering assets, allowing us to provide a comprehensive set of midstream services to our customers across the Southern, Northeastern and Midwestern United States and into Canada. Our newly independent public company is an energy industry leader with more than 20 years of proven success. Our focus is to be safe, caring, dependable and efficient in all we do.

Job Summary

Under limited supervision, responsibilities for this position will be split between the payroll and compensation functions. Responsible for administering bi-weekly payroll through the company's HRIS System, validating benefits vendor files and data feeds that flow through to payroll. Manage unemployment documentation, garnishments, and one-time payments. Assists with market pricing jobs, auditing job descriptions, and support Manager with compensation tasks.

Work involves performing difficult and complex services requiring a high level of independent judgment, initiative, and discretion. Work is mainly self-directed, with work results reviewed through the achievement of set goals and adherence to policies and procedures.

Key Accountabilities

• On a bi-weekly basis prepare and validate payroll runs with an emphasis on accuracy, details and timeliness

• Investigate employee questions and inquiries about payroll, taxes, and deduction related items

• Administer garnishments and voluntary court deductions; including ensuring payments are made timely to the appropriate agency

• Prepare, run and upload bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly accounting documents and notify partners when they are ready for review.

• Ensure that automatic and manual payroll items are properly received from and sent to benefit vendors (i.e. 401K, medical, HSA/FSA, etc)

• Track and administer the tuition reimbursement and relocation programs

• Ability to perform basic accounting functions (reconciliations, journal entries, forecasting, etc.)

• Administer year-end bonus payments, one-time payments, and off-cycle checks

• Responsible for biweekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual payroll reporting

• Special projects or other duties as assigned

• Assist Manager with market pricing job families, job descriptions and job taxonomies

• Assist Manager with day-to-day operations and administration for the employees in the Company 401K plan including maintains all appropriate records, reports and files related to 401K administration

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Associate's degree from an accredited college

• Experience with ADP Workforce Now

• Position requires at least 2 years of experience working in a payroll department; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Other Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is strongly preferred, with a concentration in business, accounting, mathematics, or economics

• Knowledge of personnel policies, practices, procedures, and laws

• Knowledge of basic accounting

• Ability to efficiently handle competing priorities and tasks, remain organized and meet deadlines

• Ability to establish and maintain confidential and effective working relationships with supervisor, coworkers, management and internal and external customers

• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills coupled with a welcoming, cooperative and supportive demeanor

• Ability to function within a matrix organization in which functional and business leaders have equal authority within the organization and employees report to both a functional leader and a business leader

Physical Demands

The physical demands must be met to properly perform the functions of the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  To properly perform the integral functions of this job, the employee is required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, reach, talk, hear, grasp, and carry objects.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee usually works in a business office or other appropriate location during hybrid days, with a moderate noise level.

Additional Information

Incumbents may engage in all or some combination of the accountabilities and use a variety of the competencies cited in this description depending upon the organization and role to which they are assigned. This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents in this job. It is not intended as an all-inclusive list of accountabilities or responsibilities, nor is it intended to limit the rights of supervisors or management representatives to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision.