Payroll Specialist

Summary:

The Payroll Specialist will be responsible for all aspects of the organization's payroll function and its subsidiaries.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with managers for timecard accuracy, issues, and corrections. Ensures timecard and payroll policies are followed.

• Responsible for the preparation and processing of multi-state weekly payroll runs including entering time and validating payroll prior to transmission.
• Establish and ensure accuracy of federal, state, and local taxes, social security contributions, employee benefit contributions, fringe benefits, garnishments, and other deductions of employee paychecks.
• Research and gather required documents to set up required tax accounts in new states where companies operate. Research payroll tax payments and data discrepancies with federal, state, and local agencies, and work with tax agencies as well as internal staff for resolution.
• Administration functions include filing, running reports, effective record keeping, and communication.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to author reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

Education:

Two-year accounting degree, preferred but not required; and three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.