Payroll Specialist

Position Overview: Compile and post employee time and payroll data. Computes employees’ time worked and production pay, computes and post wages and deductions, as well prepares paychecks for multiple companies.

Important Job Functions

• Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
• Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
• Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
• Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
• Compile and review weekly departmental analytical reports
• Provide Support to employees accessing the ADP Employee Portal
• Complete Verification of Income Requests
• Distribute department mail
• Maintain a well organized electronic / paperless filing system
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• Time Management – Managing one’s own time and the time of others
• Mathematics – Using mathematics to solve problems
• Reading Comprehension – Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Active Listening – Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking – Talking to other to convey information effectively.
• Active Learning – Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making

Attributes

• Willingness to learn / grow knowledge of IMC and payroll
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment
• Information Ordering – The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule of set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Mathematical Reasoning – The ability to choose the right mathematical methods of formulas to solve a problem.
• Oral Expression – The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so other will understand.
• Oral Comprehension – The ability to listen to an understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Problem Sensitivity – The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Other Skills / Abilities

• Excellent computer skills
• Microsoft Office (particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook)
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work with little supervision