Payroll Supervisor Job Description
Payroll Supervisor Duties & Responsibilities
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Payroll Supervisor Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Payroll Supervisor
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Education for Payroll Supervisor
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Employers hiring for the payroll supervisor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Education, Business/Administration, Human Resources, Associates, General Education, Technical, Management
Skills for Payroll Supervisor
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Payroll Supervisor Examples
Payroll Supervisor Job Description
- Ensure timely pay for all U.S. employees verifying proper deductions and calculations
- Prepare the payroll general ledger posting ensuring proper coding of all transactions in compliance with the Firm’s business rules
- Manage all year-end tax reporting, including W2s and W2-Cs
- Work with key relationships to ensure all imputed income is captured and appropriately reported
- Perform research for changes to wage tax and other related legislation impacting the payroll
- Manage twice annual Workday upgrades
- Assist payroll manager with development of payroll project plans including detailed work plans support the integrity, completeness and timeliness of the solutions for system implementation
- Interview for hiring, supervise and conduct performance reviews for up to 10 staff members
- Oversee the Workforce Central time and attendance weekly sign off process the hours upload process for all business units
- Evaluate the daily work flow among payroll staff and reassigns as needed to ensure that all work is completed by the established payroll deadlines
- IPASS qualified/part qualified would be beneficial but not essential
- IPASS qualification is a distinct advantage
- Strong bilingual communication skills in Spanish and English is a plus
- Must have 5 plus years of Payroll experience
- Must have Labor and Wage knowledge
- Must have experience working and communicating with the government agencies for payroll tax matters
Payroll Supervisor Job Description
- Identification of opportunities to optimize current processes and procedures used
- Organization and transfer of the established procedures and techniques under the closed list of clients
- Support benefits function as it relates to employee contributions for healthcare, 401k contributions, pension information
- Monitor HP Service center activities and ensures adequate staffing to support the flow of customer calls
- Respond to and/ or distributes issues and inquiries to appropriate team members for research and follow up or to the manager for escalation
- Interface with business unit HR Service Center to resolve employee payroll issues and accommodate any special processing
- Assist staff in problem solving and complex payroll issues such as tax adjustments, garnishments TOP accruals research and Workforce Central issues
- Review and approve the off cycle checks before confirmation and assists in printing if needed
- Create pay calendars and attaches run Ids to the pay calendars in the payroll system for payroll processing
- Transmit Direct Deposit and Positive Pay files on a weekly and biweekly basis
- Answer queries on Payroll inbox
- Manage daily and weekly payroll for EMEA payroll teams
- Lead the day to day payroll
- Co-ordinate Payroll closes for European Payrolls as directed by Payroll Manager
- Work closely with local Payroll Vendors, Store Managers, HR, Compliance, Systems teams and any other relevant business partners
- Ensure all payrolls are completed in a timely & accurate manner and in line with SOX controls
Payroll Supervisor Job Description
- Review M&T positive pay on a daily basis
- Review union deduction payments on a monthly basis
- Manage electronic time and collection process, including all union dues reporting
- Resolve all employee payroll issues as they arise
- Train and assist the payroll staff
- Processing semi-monthly faculty payroll for over 1000+ employees using our in-house payroll system
- Full-cycle faculty contracts process (creation, review, distribution, update, and maintenance)
- Creating and maintaining faculty contract database to ensure all exceptions are captured and documented
- Setting-up new hire profiles in the payroll system for faculty pay group
- Ensuring all required faculty new hire documents have been received and filed in compliance with company policy and DOL regulations
- 5 years in Payroll with Payroll Tax experience
- Working with Associate Director to set up employee tax profile in the payroll system ensuring government compliance
- Entering contract payments and revisions into the payroll system
- Updating and maintaining faculty sick leave balances using the company’s MyTime tracking system
- Providing support in processing Faculty absence reports and calculate substitute payments and deductions based on report
- Working with Associate Director/Payroll Manager to maintain necessary payroll reporting requirements
Payroll Supervisor Job Description
- Supporting Payroll Manger in maintaining clear and constant communications with academic department assistants, contacts in the office of the registrar and continuing education
- Process payroll for multiple states and assist with hours calculations, adjustments, reimbursements
- Compile information for audits as needed, SOX, workers compensation, 401K, unemployment, labor unions
- Track and deduct all garnishments and other special payroll deductions
- Responsible for the accurate and timely processing of payroll and the activities associated with this processing
- Respond to all inquiries related to employee payments.This includes any special reporting, ad hoc reports and month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting
- Respond to payroll related inquiries
- Ability to review current processes, recommend and design changes to improve and standardize workflow
- Supervise Payroll staff by providing payroll direction, guidance and motivate direct reports to meet and exceed business goals
- Working in conjunction with Human Resources, ensure integrity of Staff data maintenance into Colleague H.R
- Team oriented and able to work with employees at all levels
- Minimum of 3 years of experience using a payroll service provider required
- In depth knowledge of wage and hour regulations
- Working knowledge of payroll operations across a multinational company and within a shared service centr environment
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment with high volume and high level of accuracy
- Ceridian experience is a plus
Payroll Supervisor Job Description
- Implement consistent payroll processing procedures and continually evaluating established procedures for process improvements
- Responding to all federal, state, and local inquiries
- Build simple ad hoc, SAP software, Payroll reports and manipulate these in excel
- Monitor all Non-Exempt Staff employee’s time by validation of data and supervisor authorizations
- Create/oversee the submission of bi-weekly 3rd party data files to appropriate vendors
- Backup the Director of Payroll by performing completion of quarterly taxes, and reports to 3rd Party vendor
- Monitors / supervises the time capture, and evaluate process duties for Payroll Operations
- Analyze and reconcile calculations including complex non-standardized pay rules, accruals and manual entries
- Manages Payroll Operations team completion of ACH reversals and rejections, check voids, stop payments, reversals and replacements, and resolution of stale-dated items
- Provides support for maintenance of payroll databases
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft business applications and various reporting software, especially Excel
- 2-3 years of ADP Enterprise experience
- 5 years of EMEA payroll experience
- 8+ years experience processing payroll for over 500 employees
- Minimum 2-5 years of US domestic payroll experience
- CPP or FPC certification a plus