Payroll Specialist II

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented details. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - City of Des Moines seeking experienced Payroll Specialist (Payroll Specialist II). Role ensures employees paid accurately, on time, compliance. Collaborate with Finance, HR, IT. Impact on services. - Closing Date Open until Filled. Applications turned in by October 08, 2026 will have first consideration. - Salary $86,933.52 - $105,667.20 per year. DOE (depending on experience). So Pay section: salary range. - To Apply: instructions (we must remove application instructions). So we drop that. - Nature of Work: description. - Key responsibilities: list. - Distinguishing Characteristics: description. - Essential Functions: many bullet-like paragraphs. - Benefit Administration: description. - Customer Service: description. - Enterprise Systems Administration: description. - Additional Duties: description. - Knowledge Of Necessary Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: list. - Skill And Ability To: list. We need to produce sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (maybe knowledge/skills?), Qualifications (maybe education/experience?), Skills (maybe abilities), Benefits (maybe benefit administration?), Pay (salary), Schedule (maybe not given). There's no explicit schedule info (like full-time, hours). Not given, so we should not create Schedule section. Benefits: The posting mentions benefit administration duties but not employee benefits like health insurance, retirement, etc. It does not list benefits offered to employee. So we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does not. So omit Benefits. Pay: we have salary range. Schedule: not present, omit. Qualifications: maybe education/experience? Not explicitly stated. The posting mentions "experienced Payroll Specialist", "more advanced role than Payroll Specialist I", but no explicit qualifications like degree, years experience. Could infer but we must not invent. So we should not create Qualifications unless there is explicit content. There's "Knowledge Of Necessary Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:" which is more like requirements/skills. Could treat as Requirements and Skills sections. We need to decide sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (knowledge needed), Skills (abilities). Possibly combine. We must not create empty sections. Let's extract About the role: first paragraph(s) describing role: "The City of Des Moines is seeking an experienced Payroll Specialist to play a critical role in ensuring our employees are paid accurately, on time, and in compliance with ever changing laws and regulations. This role has an opportunity to collaborate with various department professionals (Finance, HR, and IT) to improve processes and solve complex challenges while providing exceptional customer service. The Payroll Specialist II will have a meaningful impact on the services that support the people who serve our community every day." That's good. Responsibilities: list of key responsibilities from "Key responsibilities include configuring, maintaining, upgrading, testing, and training for the City's payroll system." plus other duties: processing semi-monthly payroll, ensuring compliance, managing technical payroll duties, developing processes, acting as power user/administrator for Executime, working with complex manual and automated payroll processes, applying union contracts, interpreting benefit deductions, tax withholdings, specialty pays, shift conversions, ensuring accurate input of benefits into vendor portals, managing reconciliation of benefit payments, additional accounting duties as assigned. We can create a

with items. Requirements: maybe the "Knowledge Of Necessary Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:" list. That includes many knowledge areas. Could be Requirements. Skills: the "Skill And Ability To" list. We need to avoid duplication. Could split: Requirements = knowledge areas; Skills = abilities. We must preserve all substantive info; we can't omit any. So we need to include all knowledge items and skill items. Let's extract knowledge list: - Payroll principles and practices. - Accounting principles and fund accounting. - Current federal, state, and local laws governing public sector payroll administration, payroll tax reporting, accounting systems, and municipal budgeting procedures. - Federal and state wage and hour laws. - Payroll tax reporting, withholding requirements, and related federal and state reporting obligations. - Employee benefit administration and payroll-related benefit processing. - Payroll accounting principles, payroll reconciliations, and internal controls. - Public sector payroll administration, including the interpretation and application of collective bargaining agreements, City policies, and payroll regulations. - Electronic payroll, timekeeping, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. That's it. Skill and ability list: - Maintain confidentiality regarding sensitive information and confidential records. - Research, analyze, and resolve payroll system discrepancies, errors, and omissions; coordinate and implement corrective action as appropriate. - Demonstrate attention to detail. - Operate computers utilizing a variety of software including automated financial systems, word processing, spreadsheet, database and other applications related to the area of assignment. - Maintain accurate payroll and personnel data within automated payroll and financial systems. - Plan and organize work. - Perform statistical, mathematical and financial analysis; interpret the data. - Interpret and apply federal, state, and local payroll laws, regulations, collective bargaining agreements, and City policies. - Perform arithmetic computations accurately and quickly. - Prepare, reconcile, and analyze payroll reports, tax filings, and financial information. - Perform payroll reconciliations and identify, investigate, and resolve discrepancies. - Administer electronic payroll and timekeeping systems, including system testing, troubleshooting, reporting, and process improvements. - Apply general accounting principles to the keeping of account records and the preparation of financial reports. - Understand complex written and oral instruction. - Formulate and design forms, graphs and program spreadsheets. - Work independently and make decisions under broad guidelines. - Work under pressure and/or continual interruptions, and to deal with a variety of deadlines of both an immediate and flexible nature. - Maintain fair, equitable and cooperative working relationships with co-workers. - Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with the public, other employees, using tact, discretion and courtesy. - Provide technical guidance and training regarding payroll procedures, policies, and payroll systems. - Manage multiple projects simultaneously. - Coordinate projects and responsibilities with intradepartmental c (cut off). The text ends abruptly: "Coordinate projects and responsibilities with intradepartmental c". Likely incomplete due to cutoff. We must preserve as is? It says "Coordinate projects and responsibilities with intradepartmental c". Probably meant "intradepartmental collaboration". But we cannot invent. We should keep the text as given, even if incomplete. However we should not include garbled incomplete sentence? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The cutoff is part of the original text; we should include it exactly as appears. So include that phrase. Now Benefits: none. Pay: salary range. Schedule: none. We also have closing date info: "Closing Date Open until Filled. Applications turned in by October 08, 2026 will have first consideration." This is substantive info about timeline. Should we include? Possibly under About the role or a separate section like "Application Timeline". But we only allowed sections list; we could include it in About the role as a paragraph. The instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". We can add a paragraph about timeline inside About the role or maybe a separate "Important Dates" but not in allowed headings. Since we only have those headings, we could put timeline in About the role paragraph. Also "Nature of Work" etc could be part of About the role. We must not include application instructions (the "To Apply Complete the online application..."). We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc (not present). Now craft HTML. Structure:

About the role

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Responsibilities

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Requirements

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Skills

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Pay

Salary $86,933.52 - $105,667.20 per year (DOE).

We need to ensure we don't repeat job title. Now compile responsibilities list from the text. Let's extract responsibilities bullet points: From "Key responsibilities include configuring, maintaining, upgrading, testing, and training for the City's payroll system." Also: "The role involves working with both complex manual and automated payroll processes, applying union contracts and policy language, and interpreting benefit deductions, tax withholdings, specialty pays, and shift conversions with considerable judgment and confidentiality." Also: "While the primary focus is on payroll, this position also ensures accurate input of benefits into vendor portals, manages the reconciliation of benefit payments, and handles additional accounting duties as assigned." Also from Essential Functions list: many items. We should include them as responsibilities. But we must not duplicate too much; we can combine. Better to extract all essential functions bullet points as responsibilities. Let's list essential functions items: - Performs timely and accurate preparation of City semi-monthly payrolls in close collaboration with Human Resources and Information Technology. - Researches, gathers, tabulates, assembles, analyzes, summarizes, and reconciles payroll transactions, related information, and records; reviews and monitors timesheet data for compliance with collective bargaining agreements, City policies, and applicable laws; identifies and resolves discrepancies as authorized; certifies payroll and benefit eligibility; and updates required systems. - Administers payroll operations in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, collective bargaining agreements, City policies, and benefit plan requirements by monitoring changes, interpreting requirements, and implementing necessary payroll processes and system updates. - Acts as the power user and administrator for the Executime Time and Attendance system, overseeing its configuration, maintenance, upgrades, quality control, and system administration to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, labor agreements, and City policies. - Ensures adjustments and corrections accurately reflect employee-reported time and supervisor approvals. - Prepares, reconciles, and files all required payroll tax reports and related filings, including quarterly and annual reporting, ensuring compliance with applicable tax laws and reporting requirements. - Coordinates and performs payroll accounting operational functions; evaluates accounting procedures and fiscal practices; recommends and assists in implementing new or revised payroll accounting systems, procedures, and records; and participates in developing computer programs for payroll accounting analysis. - Maintains accurate leave accruals within the payroll system and administers shared leave and other leave tracking records in coordination with Human Resources to ensure accurate reporting and compliance. - Performs payroll-related reconciliations to ensure the accuracy of payroll transactions, benefit deductions, tax withholdings, general ledger postings, and vendor payments, researching and resolving discrepancies as necessary. - Performs complex payroll research and analysis; compiles payroll statistics, costs, and reports in support of management, labor relations, budgeting, and organizational decision-making. - May design standard and ad hoc payroll and benefit reports utilizing payroll system reporting tools; may perform salary and benefit forecasting, budget support, variance analysis, and other financial reporting as requested. - Identifies payroll-related accounting system issues, recommends process improvements, and collaborates with Information Technology, Human Resources, Finance, software vendors, and management to resolve system issues and improve payroll operations. - Administers payroll-related employee benefit processing, including benefit enrollments, vendor maintenance, payroll deductions, payment processing, reconciliation of vendor billings, and resolution of discrepancies. - Coordinates with Human Resources to ensure compliance with applicable state and federal laws, regulations, City policies, and benefit plan requirements. - Partners with Human Resources