Payroll Specialist

Responsibilities

• Maintain employee information in the HRIS for payroll accuracy.
• Review time sheets, work charts, wage computations, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
• Compute and audit wages, benefit amounts, garnishments, and deductions.
• Process employee resignation/termination pay and any retro pay in timely accordance with policy and applicable laws.
• Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• Ensure accuracy in the system via multiple audits for employee holiday pay, leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave and related pay.
• Issue and record adjustments to pay related previous errors or retroactive increases, auditing and correcting timesheet and attendance records when applicable.
• Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, benefit plans deductions, garnishments, and collective agreement provisions.
• Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.
• Compile reports, statements, and summaries related to pay and benefits accounts, to assist the Benefits Administrator.
• Conduct and process verifications of employment, court ordered garnishments, and other payroll deductions upon request.
• Aid with modified duty assignments and workers’ compensation return to work procedures.
• Audit employees’ benefit eligibility.
• Compile and maintain benefit records and documents for benefit payments while an employee is on a Leave of Absence (LOA).
• Compile and maintain employee records with routine accuracy audits.
• Assist the Benefits Administrator in coordinating open enrollment annually.
• Assist with employee appreciation functions and luncheon events.
• Generate report generation for all payroll, workers compensation, and benefit requests.
• Reconcile invoices for all insurance companies with the Benefits Administrator.
• Review and maintain 401k reconciliation to ensure accurate processing.
• Act as notary on behalf of ACG and keep commission current.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills – team player
• Hard worker who is a self-starter and proactive
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be detail-oriented
• Knowledge of Federal and State Payroll and Labor Laws
• Previous experience working in an HRIS
• Excellent Microsoft Office Suite skills (primarily Word, Excel, and Outlook)
• Experience in general Human Resource functions and responsibilities
• 2 to 5 years of payroll experience required