Payroll Specialist

The Payroll Specialist will be responsible for processing payroll, maintaining payroll records, and ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal payroll regulations.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Process bi-weekly or monthly payroll for all employees, ensuring accuracy of calculations for wages, bonuses, deductions, and taxes.
2. Maintain and update payroll records, including personal information, salaries, and hours worked.
3. Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and best practices.
4. Coordinate with HR and Finance departments to verify employee information, resolve payroll issues, and provide payroll information for reports and GL reporting.
5. Handle the administration of the electronic time and attendance, ensuring accurate recording of employee hours worked.
6. Prepare and submit reports with payroll information to management as required.
7. Performs all activities necessary to process one or more payrolls, including maintaining payroll records, processing voluntary deductions such as state and federal tax records, preparing accounting documents, documenting and updating procedures, and preparing special payroll reports for all levels of management.
8. Assist with year-end tasks including the preparation of W-2 forms and other tax documents.
9. Stay current with payroll regulations, trends, and best practices, ensuring our payroll processes remain compliant and efficient.
10. Respond to employee inquiries regarding payroll matters in a timely and accurate manner.
11. Oversee and complete ad-hoc reporting for Finance and executive team.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years experience in Payroll is preferred.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems required.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel required.
• Strong knowledge of payroll software (e.g., ADP, Quickbooks, etc).
• Strong knowledge of payroll and accounting principles, payroll methods, Department of Labor regulations, and federal and state tax regulations required.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proficiency in problem analysis, issue resolution, planning and time management.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of information, professional demeanor under pressure and effectively work with employees at all levels.
• Ability to work independently and under minimal supervision in a fast-paced office environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding sensitive employee information.

About Maharishi International University and the Opportunity:
Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, MIU has an over 50-year history as an innovator in higher education. With a headcount of nearly 3,000 students, more than half of MIU’s instruction is online. We have 15 online graduate programs, and our online undergraduate enrollment has increased from 100 to 500 in just the past four years.

Most importantly, MIU is the world pioneer of Consciousness-Based education, with the mission of promoting the development of every student’s physical, mental, and emotional potential through the development of consciousness, using the simple, natural, and effortless technique of Transcendental Meditation (TM).

Learn more here: Maharishi International University | Accredited & Nonprofit (miu.edu)