Job Title: Costpoint Payroll Specialist
Employment Type: Temp-to-Perm
Compensation:
$40-45/hr / Salary Conversion $90-100KLocation: Remote – Candidates must be local to the Northern Virginia/DC area for occasional quarterly team meetings in Arlington, VA.
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PMKey Responsibilities
Independently manage end-to-end weekly payroll processing for approximately 400 employees, ensuring accurate and timely payments. Process and audit weekly timesheets, including approximately 190 employees submitting time through Excel and the remaining workforce utilizing Deltek Time. Extract, calculate, and format employee hours, leave balances, and payroll data for processing through Deltek Costpoint and ADP.Perform SCA fringe benefit and Health & Welfare calculations, ensuring accurate labor allocations and compliance with government contracting requirements. Review and validate labor distributions, including project hours, accounts, organizations, project labor categories (PLCs), and pay types. Manage employee leave calculations, accruals, anniversary payouts, and termination payouts. Process weekly payroll transmissions through ADP and generate required payroll reports. Perform monthly general ledger reconciliations, ensuring Costpoint labor and payroll deductions reconcile accurately to ADP payments. Research and resolve payroll discrepancies, timesheet issues, and employee inquiries. Collaborate with managers and internal departments to ensure timely timesheet submissions and accurate payroll processing. Maintain compliance with DCAA requirements, SCA regulations, and internal payroll controls. Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, automate manual Excel workflows, and strengthen reporting accuracy.
Required Qualifications:
3+ years of payroll processing experience within a government contracting environment, ideally 3–5+ years.
Hands-on Deltek Costpoint payroll processing experience is required.
Strong understanding of labor accounting, timekeeping, payroll reconciliations, and government contracting compliance.