PAYROLL SPECIALIST (50080367)

Job Role Summary

Performs administrative and support duties specifically oriented to the day-to-day activities of the Corporate Payroll Office. 

Essential Duties

• Responsible for timely and accurate payroll input through SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Kronos and ADP systems.
• Maintains the confidentiality of employee information.
• Perform computations necessary to prepare payroll information for computer input and the processing of exception items or items requiring special handling.
• Balance data input and reconcile to pay cycle reports.
• Initiate, input, and balance off-cycle payments and adjustments.
• Verify and input employee banking information, voluntary deductions, and tax changes..
• Understand and apply company payroll policies.  This requires maintaining an up-to-date knowledge base of payroll policies.
• Verify time and attendance data to insure accurate pay.  
• Inform employees regarding garnishment orders, interrogatories, and federal and state tax levies.
• Provide requested, and legally required, employee information to courts and governmental agencies.
• Balance deductions and verifies payments on a bi-weekly basis.
• Provide instructions to management and staff regarding policies and procedures for proper payroll preparation and document submission.
• Provides assistance to supervisors with Kronos input and problems.
• Work with managers, supervisors and employees to resolve inquiries regarding employees’ wages, deductions, recorded time and benefit balances and accruals.
• Prepare retirement submissions to PERF and Deferred Comp.
• Prepare requested reports as needed.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Associated Job Duties

• Communicate effectively and professionally with a wide variety of contacts including: employees, managers, and supervisors, as well as external contacts.
• Plan and prioritize work.
• Work under the pressure of deadlines, while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and thoroughness.
• Analyze payroll change requests to prevent fraud attempts prior to entering the requested change in a payroll system.
• Maintains the confidentiality of all payroll and employee information.
• Attention to accurate detail to prevent delays in payroll processing, mistakes in employee paychecks, and/or many hours spent in correcting system errors. 
• Assist with testing and validating all payroll system upgrades and implementations. 
• Work alongside the Human Resource department on policy updates and changes, benefit updates and changes, and employee transfers, new hires, and terminations.

Qualifications

• Some post High School business education preferred.
• 3 to 5 years experience required with automated payroll systems in a corporate environment.  Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Kronos, and ADP preferred.
• Knowledge of timekeeping and payroll practices.
• PC skills with a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Windows.
• Proficiency and accuracy with numbers, and experience using a 10 key calculator.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.
• Potential overtime with long hours at the computer required during payroll processing.
• High degree of maturity, tact, and judgment is required in dealing with internal and external contacts.

Working Environment

Standard office setting