Payroll Coordinator

Job Title:  Payroll Coordinator

Working Pattern:  Onsite/Hybrid in Office 3 days/week

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

The US Payroll Coordinator role provides support to all Rolls-Royce US employees. In this role you will complete full cycle payroll runs; including reviewing time and audit pay for accuracy. You are responsible for addressing payroll concerns, answering employee payroll questions and adhere to processing deadlines to ensure employees are paid timely with a high degree of accuracy.

As part of payroll processing, you will be responsible for payroll runs, maintaining adequate records of all data and transactions, responding to employee questions, resolving issues, and assuring confidentiality of all payrolls related information.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

Rolls-Royce has been recognized as the top employer in the Engineering & Manufacturing category on the prestigious Forbes Top Employers for Engineers list for 2025. This ranking highlights our commitment to innovation, employee development, and fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive.

Be part of a team that sets the industry standard and drives groundbreaking solutions.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing:

• Works alongside with HR, People Services staff to ensure employee activity is updated or input timely and accurately. You will be responsible for your payroll company ensuring worktime is correct and payroll is processed accurately for all assigned employees in accordance with US Law.
• Ensures that Rolls-Royce payroll processing complies with Federal and State withholding (depositing and reporting) requirements including issuing timely and accurate pay while maintaining adequate records of all data, transactions, resolving issues, responding to employee questions in a timely manner, and assuring privacy of all payroll related records.
• Ensures that payroll is compliant with all union collective bargaining agreements.
• Possess the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, problem solve complex pay issues that require additional analysis or information gathering; Complete tasks to support audit activities.
• Ability to analyze each pay for anomalies or trends that may cause an issue with an employees pay. Research and prepare solutions to errors as they rise. Participate in review and balancing of year-end activity; per pay period reconciliations by providing supporting documents.
• Understand the basis for SOX compliance standards and work towards any resolving any processes that may be out of compliance.
• Serves as a backup for the payroll processors in other areas as needed.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Basic Requirements:

• Associates Degree in Finance/Accounting with 3+ years of payroll experience OR
• Seven (7) years of end-to-end payroll processing
• US Payroll Experience
• ADP Workforce Now and SmartCompliance and Workday experience
• MS Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PDF, Teams, Copiers
• Payroll Technical Skills; understanding taxes, taxable wages, W2s, W2c’s
• To be considered for this role you must be a U.S. citizen

Preferred Requirements:

• Bilingual (Fluent in English and intermediate in Spanish) preferred
• CPP or FPC Certification
• Strong Organizational Skills (we are a paperless environment)
• Able to communicate at a high level of aptitude and with all levels of employees
• Decision Making (knowing when and how to act and when to escalate)
• Possess the ability to analyze, communicate effectively, infer, observe, problem solve with little or no direction, and take initiative
• Ability to communicate professionally both verbal and in email or Teams communications
  Critical thinking ability is a must
• Work effectively in a fast paced new and changing environment
• Self-starter, planning future workload experience

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Relocation is not available for this role

Job Expires: 1/15/26

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Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.