Payroll Specialist

Examples of Duties

• Performs daily payroll operations for a large department.
• Deals sensitively and professionally with confidential materials.
• Manages workflow to ensure all payroll transactions are processed accurately and timely.
• Executes time and attendance processing and interfaces with payroll.
• Assists with processing paperwork for new hires, terminations, and employee changes.
• Compares and validates work schedules, time clocks, and payroll entries.
• Conducts ongoing time entry audits, makes adjustments, and documents deficiencies.
• Communicates with various levels of management.
• Makes decisions, solves problems, and analyzes data and situations.
• Utilizes organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills in order to produce accurate results and meet established deadlines.
• Develops ad hoc financial and operational reporting as needed.
• Processes accurate and timely year-end reporting when necessary.
• Prepares internal payroll reports as needed.
• Understands proper taxation of employer paid benefits.
• Files documents into appropriate files in a timely manner and maintains payroll records.
• Processes manual checks.
• Performs other job-related duties as required.