Job Description

Level: Experienced
Job Location: Beavercreek Office - Beavercreek, OH 45431
Position Type: Full Time
Travel Percentage: NoneLead payroll operations that support mission-driven growth in a fast-scaling government contracting environment

Position Summary
Sabel Systems is seeking an experienced Payroll Administrator to lead and manage end-to-end payroll processing in a GovCon (government contracting) environment. This role ensures accurate payroll execution across multi-state employees and legal entities, maintains compliance with federal regulations and audit standards, and supports organizational growth through scalable payroll processes and future acquisition integrations.
This position plays a critical role in maintaining payroll accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency while contributing to process improvements and automation initiatives.
Work Location & Schedule
- This is a fully remote position open to candidates residing anywhere within the United States.
- Candidates must be available to work Eastern Time Zone business hours to support payroll processing cycles and internal stakeholder needs.
Work You’ll Do
As a Payroll Administrator at Sabel Systems, you will:
- Process biweekly and semimonthly payroll for multi-state employees
- Oversee payroll tax compliance, benefit deductions, garnishments, and multi-state registrations
- Validate employee timesheets in accordance with DCAA-compliant timekeeping policies
- Prepare payroll journal entries and perform balance sheet reconciliations
- Reconcile payroll tax liabilities, benefit deductions, and accrued payroll accounts
- Maintain payroll system data integrity and internal controls over payroll processing
- Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives
- Support payroll due diligence, integration, and harmonization for mergers and acquisitions
- Ensure payroll systems scale to support company growth and future acquisitions
- Maintain compliance with FAR cost principles and DCAA audit standards
Your

Qualifications
Required
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without employer sponsorship for employment visa status, now or in the future.
Education & Experience
- 5+ years of payroll processing experience in a government contracting environment
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification
- Strong knowledge of GAAP
Technical Skills
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations)
- Experience with multi-state payroll and compliance requirements
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and documentation discipline
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential payroll information
Preferred
- Experience with Paycom or Rippling
- Experience with GovCon accounting systems such as PROCAS, Unanet, or Deltek Costpoint
- Experience supporting payroll integration during mergers and acquisitions
Who We Are
Sabel is a digital engineering and Defense technology partner helping organizations simplify complexity and improve mission outcomes with secure, scalable solutions, across the lifecycle. Our people-first culture blends large-business opportunity with small-business agility, enabling us to deliver high-impact, secure solutions, rapidly, while investing in our people’s growth and success. You will be joining a dynamic and highly motivated team with one shared goal: “Get quality and secure solutions in the customers’ hands as soon as possible.”
Why Join Sabel Systems
- Remote work flexibility
- Opportunities to support company growth and acquisitions
- Collaborative, mission-driven culture
- Career development and advancement opportunities
Our Culture & Values

Our Core Values
- Bias for Action: Decisive. Purposeful. Agile. We move with the speed of relevance to drive impact and progress.
- Integrity: Respect. Ethics. Transparency. We do what’s right and earn lasting trust.
- Delivery Excellence: Customer-obsessed. Mission-focused. Quality-driven. We deliver innovative outcomes that exceed expectations.
Our EVP Promise
Join Sabel Systems, where your contributions drive impact, your growth is continuously supported, and your well-being is at the center of how we work—so together, we can build the future with purpose.
“Rewarding Impact. Building Futures Together.”
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sabel Systems is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business need. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind across all employment practices within our organization. Sabel Systems participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.
Sabel Systems is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process, please contact recruiting@sabelsystems.com.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required.
- Problem Solving: Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving situations; uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
- Strategic thinking: Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; understands organization's strengths & weaknesses; analyzes market and competition; identifies external threats and opportunities; adapts strategy to changing conditions.
- Written Communication: Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively; able to read and interpret written information.
- Diversity: Demonstrates knowledge of EEO policy; shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; promotes a harassment-free environment.
- Ethics: Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; works with integrity and ethically; upholds organizational values.
- Planning/Organizing: Prioritize and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops realistic action plans.
- Professionalism: Approaches others in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure; treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments.
- Innovation: Displays original thinking and creativity; meets challenges with resourcefulness; generates suggestions for improving work; develops innovative approaches and ideas; presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention.
- Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, proposals, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and general public.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to question activities and issues in all functional areas and make sound business decisions based on that data.
- Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, type or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.