Coordinator, Payroll Job Description
Coordinator, Payroll Duties & Responsibilities
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Coordinator, Payroll Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Coordinator, Payroll
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Education for Coordinator, Payroll
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Employers hiring for the coordinator, payroll job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Education, Business, Finance, Associates, Business/Administration, Human Resources, Technical, Graduate, Communication
Skills for Coordinator, Payroll
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Coordinator, Payroll Examples
Coordinator, Payroll Job Description
- Review preliminary payroll reports and payroll previews for accuracy prior to processing
- Responsible for timely and accurate day-to-day processing of new employee records in timekeeping/expense report system
- Create and maintain employee vendor records in timekeeping/expense report system
- Resolve timesheet discrepancies for employees in a timely fashion
- Reconcile payroll liability accounts
- Other finance department duties as assigned
- Provide Manager with weekly labor costs via payroll control logs
- Handle freelance payment inquiries and interface with Corporate Payroll
- Oversees and executes all wage garnishment orders for FNG and union employees, and acts as the central contact for garnishment inquires and issues
- Monitors and executes all incoming and outgoing benefits transactions, including medical, 401k and other miscellaneous employee benefits changes, and initiates outbound payroll data feed to various benefit vendors
- Able to work efficiently in both a team environment and independently
- Familiarity with ADP Workforce
- Able to communicate with all levels of the company
- Great PC skills
- Working knowledge of PeopleSoft and Oracle
- 2-5 yrs payroll experience
Coordinator, Payroll Job Description
- Oversee the company's payroll
- Handle multiple Human Resources responsibilities
- Process all company payrolls including separate payrolls for salary, bonus, commissions
- Manage any and all wage garnishments, including partnership with third parties
- Partner with HR, finance, and other internal stakeholders to collect and process information each pay period
- Prepare the accounting of salaries, wages, commission and incentive payments, including reconciliations between the sub-ledger and the G/L, accruals and payables
- Ensure employee contributions for retirement, gym memberships, other benefits are accurately recorded and shared with the appropriate parties, including vendors
- Partner with payroll vendor to ensure timely and accurate payment of all taxes due
- Manage the W-2 process with the vendor including collection of additional earnings (third party sick pay, stock related income, ) and verifying accuracy and timeliness of tax document delivery
- Calculate overtime as needed for non-exempt employees, including overtime on commissions and any other non-discretionary pay
- Proven ability to utilize and develop computerized spreadsheets and word processing applications
- Ability to respond appropriately and accurately within a timely manner
- Ability to organize workload, adapt quickly to change, and deliver under the pressure of deadlines
- Ability to work independently in a team in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work across the department in a collaborative manner
- Competent in Windows based computer applications (Microsoft Office - MS Excel)
Coordinator, Payroll Job Description
- Complete responsibility for timely and accurate payroll processing for all employees
- Responsible for understanding payroll processing requirements for and support of at least one (1) operating unit
- Administer the certified and prevailing wage payroll
- Issue manual checks for urgent requests that cannot be included on normal payroll distributions
- Handle calls relating to employee paychecks
- Research items in questions, resolve discrepancies, follow-up call and issues memos
- Document organized concise work guidelines for administrative staff to follow
- Interface with global payroll providers to process employee changes
- Update the payroll files in preparation of wage payments
- Process off-cycle payrolls for RSU deliveries as needed
- Strong Microsoft Office suite proficiency
- Prior multi-state payroll experience with at least 1,000 employees preferred
- Proficient with MS Word, Excel and other payroll/HR systems
- ADP Workforce Now or Pay Expert systems experience required
- Strong Excel, Outlook and Word experience
- Payroll experience is highly recommended, but not required
Coordinator, Payroll Job Description
- Prepare, communicate and educate internal customers on payroll changes in policies and practices
- Formulate, communicate and instruct internal customers on changes in payroll policies and practices
- Provide superior customer service skills, demonstrating courtesy and tact
- Manual processing
- General Human Resources tasks
- Running interface files
- Audit of Payroll and HR data
- Report writing using standard tools
- Resolving Tier I and Tier II Payroll customer inquiries
- Serve as a payroll subject matter expert on process design and documentation teams
- Good computer knowledge (Word, Excel)l
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel and Office
- Must have proficient PC skills including ability to test and develop PC based applications that feed into Mainframe
- 5 years of administrative payroll experience with increasing responsibility
- Professionalism and discreetness
- 2-3 years in a Payroll position
Coordinator, Payroll Job Description
- Assist in the development and documentation of payroll procedures and processes for all recurring payroll functions in the ADP Payroll process
- Assists with payroll processing reconciliation and audits
- Assist with payroll processing for both semi monthly and biweekly payroll
- Maintain files including address updates, insurance certifications
- Oversee backup HR function for permanent employees
- Process accurate employee pay calculations
- Maintain employee historical data
- Assist the Controller to ensure their day runs smoothly, including but not limited to
- Handling gross-up calculations for international employees
- Helping with the W2 process
- College degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience
- Proven ability to work with all members of a team and senior management
- Demonstrates proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Understanding of payroll reporting requirements
- Working knowledge of Paychex or ADP
- Intermediate knowledge of ADP's Enterprise Version 5 sufficient to process payroll via standard protocol and instruct others on more difficult components