Regional Payroll & HRIS Specialist

Cardinal Senior Living | Ohio Region
Full-Time | Hourly | Remote- Must live in Ohio

Become the person everyone calls when ADP gets weird.

Cardinal Senior Living is growing, and we’re adding a Regional Payroll & HRIS Specialist to support our Ohio communities.

We’re looking for someone who likes systems, catches details other people miss, and gets a strange amount of satisfaction from figuring out why something isn’t working and fixing it.

You’ll help own payroll for an assigned group of communities while becoming a go-to resource for ADP Workforce Now, payroll questions, HRIS data, timekeeping, workflows, and system troubleshooting.

And you do not need to have spent the last 10 years in payroll.

If you’re smart, organized, comfortable with data, quick to learn systems, and willing to become an expert, we’re interested.

You’ll probably love this role if you like to:

• Figure out why the numbers don’t match

• Learn a system well enough that other people start coming to you for answers

• Catch errors before they become problems

• Work through a problem until you understand the root cause

• Build spreadsheets, reports, checklists, and processes that make work easier

• Help someone solve a system issue without making them feel stupid for asking

• Have clear deadlines and take pride in hitting them

• Work independently once you understand the expectations

• Turn repetitive questions into better processes or training

• Become the ADP person everyone knows they can call

What You’ll Own

Payroll

You’ll help execute accurate, timely payroll for assigned Cardinal communities.

That includes:

• Reviewing time and payroll inputs

• Processing pay changes, bonuses, deductions, and terminations

• Reviewing payroll previews and exception reports

• Identifying discrepancies before payroll is finalized

• Coordinating payroll corrections when something isn’t right

• Maintaining clean payroll records, calendars, and controls

• Helping make sure employees are paid accurately and on time

Because when payroll is wrong, it matters.

Become Our ADP Workforce Now Expert

A major part of this role is becoming a trusted resource for ADP Workforce Now.

You’ll be the first stop for many of the day-to-day questions coming from our community leaders and teams.

You’ll help troubleshoot:

• Timekeeping

• Employee information

• Payroll

• Workflows

• User access

• System questions

• Reporting

• Common ADP issues

Sometimes you’ll know the answer.

Sometimes you’ll need to investigate.

Sometimes you’ll know when the problem needs to be escalated.

What matters is that you own the question until there is an answer.

Keep Our People Data Clean

As Cardinal grows, clean data becomes increasingly important.

You’ll help maintain accurate HRIS information for:

• New hires

• Transfers

• Compensation changes

• Employment status changes

• Deductions

• Terminations

• Employee records

You’ll also run audits, identify missing or inconsistent information, and work with the right people to get it corrected.

If seeing bad data makes you want to fix it, you’ll probably fit in well here.

Solve Problems, Not Just Tickets

We do not want someone who simply answers the same question 50 times.

We want someone who eventually asks:

Why are we getting this question 50 times?

You’ll help us:

• Identify recurring payroll and HRIS problems

• Find the root cause

• Simplify processes

• Create job aids and checklists

• Train community users

• Improve self-service

• Strengthen payroll and HRIS discipline across the organization

As we add communities, you’ll also help support new-community onboarding, system setup, testing, training, and stabilization.

You Don’t Need to Be a Payroll Veteran

We mean that.

Previous payroll or ADP experience is valuable, but we are absolutely open to someone earlier in their career who has the right horsepower.

Your background could be in:

• Payroll

• HR or HRIS

• Accounting

• Business administration

• Finance support

• Customer or technical support

• Data-heavy operations

• Another role where accuracy, systems, deadlines, and problem-solving mattered

What we care about most is whether you can learn quickly, think through problems, work accurately, protect confidential information, and take more ownership as you grow.

What We’re Looking For

Required:

• High school diploma or equivalent

• Strong attention to detail

• Comfort working with numbers, reports, and data

• Working proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Office

• Strong organization and deadline management

• Ability to troubleshoot problems logically

• Clear written and verbal communication

• Ability to handle confidential employee information appropriately

• Willingness to learn quickly and accept coaching

• Ability to work independently as your expertise grows

Preferred, but not required:

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Business, or a related field

• Payroll experience

• HRIS experience

• ADP Workforce Now experience

If you have ADP experience, great.

If you don’t, but you’re the person who usually figures out new software before everyone else, we still want to hear from you.

Why Cardinal?

Cardinal Senior Living is growing.

Growth creates opportunity, but it also requires stronger infrastructure behind the scenes.

We’re adding this role intentionally to create more capacity in our payroll operation, strengthen our HRIS expertise, improve support for our communities, and build a system that can scale with us.

That means this is not just a job processing payroll.

It is an opportunity to learn the business, become a subject-matter expert, solve meaningful problems, and grow your responsibility as Cardinal grows.

If you’re detail-oriented, systems-minded, curious, and ready to become the person people trust when payroll or ADP gets complicated, we want to meet you.

Apply today and help us build the payroll and HRIS engine behind Cardinal Senior Living’s next stage of growth.

Cardinal Senior Living LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.