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We are seeking a highly skilled Payroll Specialist to join our team at Carl Buddig & Company. The successful candidate will be responsible for performing all payroll-related duties with accuracy and efficiency.

• Timesheets and Individual Adjustments
  • Review and verify time sheets and paperwork to ensure accuracy and consistency.
  • Adjust and deduct for each employee, managing payroll-related benefits such as vacations and sick days.
  • Interact with production team regarding timesheet discrepancies, such as overtime and missed punches.
  • Review department timesheets and leave requests for accuracy, flagging and resolving inconsistencies and errors.
• Deductions
  • Request accounts payable checks for support orders, garnishments, and enter child support via web-based support payments.
  • Administer all payroll data, including garnishments, paid time off, and health insurance, and payroll deductions.
• Reports
  • Assist in evaluating reports, decisions, and results of the department in relation to established goals.
  • Recommend new approaches, policies, and procedures to improve efficiency and services performed.
• Office
  • Maintain hardcopy payroll records for all locations.
  • Perform general office duties, including filing, reporting, and miscellaneous letters.
  • Print and envelope all checks as needed, adding holiday pay, sick or vacation time to the payroll system.
  • Process stop payments and reissue checks as necessary.
• Legal and Tax
  • Comply with federal, state, and local legal requirements by staying current with existing and new legislation.
  • Enforce adherence to requirements and advise management on needed actions.
  • Ensure accuracy of employee direct deposit, tax withholding, I-9s, and other deduction records.
• Interpersonal
  • Exhibit a strong work ethic and high initiative.
  • Develop strong interpersonal skills, collaborating with the team and contributing to a positive team spirit.
  • Deliver quality results and work product with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Ensure confidentiality and discretion with sensitive topics and events.
  • Be available to handle employee questions, concerns, or requests.
• Skills
  • Strong MS Office skills, with proficiency in Excel.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with high attention to detail.
  • Experience and proficiency in UKG (formerly UltiPro/Kronos systems).
  • Process bi-weekly payroll for approximately 600+ employees through automated timekeeping and online payroll system.
  • Process bi-weekly payroll for multiple sites, including collection of employee worked hours, ensuring all new hires are accurately in the payroll and HRIS system, validation, and verification of worked hours, inputting employee hours (worked, benefit, holiday, etc.) into the payroll system, processing and finalizing payroll, including providing reports to accounting, verifying pay statements, and distribution of pay statements.
  • Add PTO, shift differential, bonus, holiday hours into UltiPro.
• Data Entry and Management
  • Process a variety of employee changes on the HRIS system to reflect the entire employee life cycle, including addition of new hires, salary and position changes, and terminations.
  • Data entry to support human resource and payroll-related plans and programs.
  Requirements
  • 1 year or less experience in payroll, AP/R, accounting clerk, or an associate's degree in accounting/business and no experience.
  • HRIS experience (UltiPro)
  • Payroll (Kronos)
  • 2-year degree in Accounting/Business/HR
  • Excellent verbal and writing skills.
  • Bi-lingual Spanish is a plus.
  • Intermediate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
  • High level of professionalism.
  Working Conditions
  • Office Environment
  • Walking, bending, stretching, and standing.