Position Summary:

Oversee and contribute to the daily activities of the Payroll Team. Responsible for the accurate and efficient processing of payroll for our multi-state, multi-division organization. Play a key role in the relationship with our payroll vendor.

Roles and Responsibilities/ Essential Functions:

• Review time sheets, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies. 
• Accurately enter Team Member information into the payroll system. 
• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records. 
• Audit wages and deductions; and enter data into payroll system, as needed. 
• Audit Team Member information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records. 
• Process and issue Team Member paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, sick time, FMLA, and LOA for Team Members. 
• Compile Team Member time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records. 
• Issue and record adjustments from previous errors or retroactive increases. 
• Provide information to Team Members and Leaders on payroll matters and tax issues. 
• Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.
• Compile reports within the payroll system, as requested from Leaders and colleagues.
• Review and audit time sheets showing Team Members' arrival and departure times to ensure accuracy prior to uploading the data to the payroll vendor. 
• Process quarterly and year-end taxes and reports, as provided by our payroll processor.
• Compute and process prevailing wage rates, as well as submit supporting documentation to clients, as requested.
• Complete, verify, and process forms and documentation for administration of items such as verification of employment, child support, garnishments, and unemployment. 
• Coordinate special programs, such as United Way campaigns, which involve payroll deductions. 
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising leadership on needed actions. 
• Lead, mentor and develop the Payroll Team.
• Assists in the recruitment, selection, orientation, and training of payroll employees. 
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

Competencies

• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions. 
• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly. 
• Conceptual Thinking - Ability to think in terms of abstract ideas.
• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task. 
• Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards. 
• Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace. 
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of 
• performing a task. 
• Project Management - Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.
• Relationship Building - Ability to effectively build relationships with customers and co-workers.
• Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within 
• given deadlines. 
• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks in stressful situations.

Required Experience:

• 3+ years of prior payroll experience

Preferred Experience:

• Processing payroll in Paylocity
• 1 year of leading people

Required Skills, Education and/ or Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent work experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred Skills, Education and/ or Certifications:

• Certified Payroll Professional

Equal Opportunity Employer - Including Disabled and Veterans