Payroll Specialist
Mooresville, NCFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Payroll Specialist supports accurate and timely bi-weekly and off-cycle payroll processing for Lowe’s U.S. employees. The role assists HR managers, managers, and employees with payroll questions and requests, maintains employee pay data, and helps resolve processing issues. Based at Lowe’s headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina, the position also supports payroll audits, payment adjustments, and vendor-managed programs.
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Do your Best Work in Mooresville
This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up – we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.
Your Impact
The primary purpose of this role is to support all aspects related to processing accurate and timely bi-weekly and off cycle payrolls for all Lowe's US employees in order for Analysts and Consultants to confirm and process payroll. This includes responsibility for providing outstanding customer service to HR managers in the field, managers representing employees, and/or employees themselves by answering questions, responding to requests, and providing assistance in a positive, confidential, and professional manner. In addition, this role maintains employee data, including direct deposits, general deductions, hours corrections, and manual calculations.
What You Will Do
- Serves as the subject matter expert for payroll related inquires
- Completes necessary research to resolve payroll issues, responding in a professional and timely manner by phone and/or email
- Inputs adjustments into Workday for pay and pay related items such as earnings and deductions
- Generates and reviews queries associated with pay processing to ensure accuracy of pay and identify potential errors
- Processes bi-weekly payments and off cycle checks as needed for special processes or requests
- Coordinates stop payments, voids, direct deposit funding adjustments and reissues and reconciles as requested by appropriate business
- Processes other payments such as severance, relocation, refunds, shift payments, etc.
- Supports the bi-weekly close process as needed by reviewing and resolving payroll error messages and other audits for payroll to run once messages are closed
- Exercises extreme confidentiality to protect high volumes of employee information and data
- Supports vendor managed programs to support the business such as Equifax and Money Network
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
- 2 Years Experience processing high volume payroll
- Experience working independently and/or as part of a team
Preferred Skills/Education
- Associate degree Business related field
- Bachelor’s degree Business related field
- Function Payroll Certification
About Lowe’s Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe’s is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 590 open Payroll Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$65–90K/yr78 salary ranges
- US median$27–32/hr156 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Payroll Specialist jobs in North Carolina and 590 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Payroll Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (413 postings).
- Education
- 34 of the 590 open Payroll Specialist jobs (6%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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