Senior Payroll Administrator Job Description
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Senior Payroll Administrator Job Description
- Routes payroll files for internal approval and final submittal for each pay cycle
- Ensures the integrity of the payroll data including data related to new hires, terminations, transfers, special payments, and rate changes
- Creates and updates annual payroll calendar and time entry cut-off schedule
- To support a results-focused team by ensuring transactional activity new starters, leavers, contract changes, payroll processing and HR administration associated with recruitment, are delivered within KPI
- Audit HR payroll related transaction input for accuracy and completeness
- Services various HR Generalist groups with on demand payments, payroll data/analysis
- Process all aspects of Payroll with a focus on resolving complex or ad hoc cases and special projects
- May use appropriate software packages to compute withholdings and deductions where multi-state tax laws are involved payments on sales draws and commissions
- Analyze employee pay data information prior to confirming weekly and semi payroll
- Perform audits to verify reported payroll hours
- Assists in the processing of garnishments, overpayments, vacation payouts, and other special payments employment and unemployment verifications
- Ensures new hire, pay change, special payment, and termination data is accurate, complete, and submitted timely for each pay cycle
- Assists with changes for direct deposit, tax withholding allowances, address
- Creates and maintains process documentation of workflow and business processes
- Calculate variable amounts due to bonus, holiday pay, overtime
- Dealing with employee/ client queries and various administrative duties
Senior Payroll Administrator Job Description
- Assists Accounting with payroll requests and reports
- Responds in a timely manner to employee and manager questions regarding payroll
- Analyzing and resolving data discrepancies between the HRIS and payroll database systems
- Ensure the accurate and timely payroll processing in Workday for approximately 300+ US employees, which includes both salaried and hourly (timesheets)
- Ensure accurate and timely payroll processing in ADP Streamline for approximately 25+ Australia employees
- Assist employees to resolve issues relating to Workday and other payroll inquiries in a timely manner
- Familiar with incorporating income and tax impact of equity transactions within payroll
- Being a point of contact and providing support for the My Time system and bespoke payroll systems
- Administrative assistance in any payroll related issue as and when required
- Generate special “off-cycle” payroll runs for bonus and stock options
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to deal with customers using tact and diplomacy, with their own work colleagues in order to motivate and maintain good morale
- Process high volume of court-ordered wage garnishments and tax levies
- Processes employee file maintenance transactions such as general deductions, W-4 changes, direct deposit setup
- Audit the Kronos and STAT Timekeeping systems for exceptions such as excessive overtime, appropriate attendance coding, regulatory and union compliance, company policy
- Process test payrolls, and analyze results
- Spanish read/write abilities are a plus
Senior Payroll Administrator Job Description
- To deputise for the Payroll Process Team Leader
- Assisting in development of Payroll Administrators
- Kronos maintenance of SEC personnel
- Respond to Team Member and property inquiries regarding research questions and adjustment requests
- Understanding of team paid time off plans
- Make decisions regarding work routine
- Perform functions to transmit bank files for Pos-Pay and direct deposit for all properties
- Monitor and process all Gross Up requests as submitted by properties
- Provide semi-monthly reporting support for ad-hoc requests
- Ensuring compliance to National Minimum Wage legislation
- Minimum of 3+ years’ payroll processing experience required
- Acts as liaison to local tax authorities, statutory official and banks
- May create, maintain and terminate employee related information in SAP HR or other relevant
- Previous work experience within Payroll activities
- Ability to use keyboard and use 10-key calculator by touch with good balancing skills
- Ability to research and solve problems related to payroll
Senior Payroll Administrator Job Description
- Responsible to administer multi state payroll tax data on payroll processing system
- Responsible for setting up and administration of state and local tax jurisdictions
- Work with SAP support for SAP build activity to accommodate new clients in agreed time-scales
- Update and maintain payroll records by reviewing and approving changes
- Ensuring that biweekly payroll is processed accurately and timely
- Develop and maintain audit tools to be used by the Payroll Administrators for tax set up
- Generate and evaluate routine reports throughout the payroll process to identify and resolve exceptions
- Research and resolve questions from employees/managers, relative to the processing of payroll information, such as vacation/personal time, direct deposit, pay cards, retroactive pay calculations, tax questions, pay errors
- Provide training and support to other members of the Payroll team as required
- Day to day relationship management of 3rd party clients in regards to payroll delivery and development
- Minimum of two (2) years of Workday Payroll and Time Tracking systems experience
- Four-year college degree, with an emphasis in Business Administration or Accounting is preferred
- Minimum of five (5) years of directly related payroll experience
- Ability to perform basic math functions and employ accurate use of detail with minimal errors
- KPI reporting to Executive team
- Oversee recovery of overpayments
Senior Payroll Administrator Job Description
- Prepare wires and fund Payroll, H.S.A, Taxes and 401k
- To complete timely and accurate payroll they will be expected to maintain related records, file tax reports and voluntary deduction reports, process involuntary deductions such as levies and garnishments, prepare accounting transactions and documents, and update procedures and prepare special reports for management
- The candidate will work closely with the Payroll Manager, and may be asked to complete other tasks on different clients, in order to support the team
- Ability to set up state taxes reporting for clients
- The payroll supervisor will be reviewing their peers work with accuracy and in a timely matter
- Supervise a team of Payroll Administrators and to ensure the delivery of high quality services levels to our clients
- Assists with the development of simple to complex HR reports using data from multiple HR data sources
- Helps ensure data integrity by monitoring the data for accuracy, consistency, and validity
- Performs data audits
- Researches and resolves questions and escalated problems from current and former employees
- Provide data and administrative support as needed to support workflow with other HR functional areas
- Support HR and other departmental initiatives as appropriate
- Stay abreast of market trends and best practices
- Provide analysis and solutions to resolve issues in related Human Resources areas
- Performs routine audits of all HR data, ensuring accuracy and integrity in all data targeted for both internal and external sources
- Must have the demonstrated ability to effectively handle a large volume of work