Payroll Specialist (Hybrid - Kansas City)

The Payroll Specialist ensures assigned transactional and ad-hoc payroll activities are complete, timely, accurately executed and filed in accordance with Littler Policies and relevant external requirements and regulations.

This is a hybrid position resident in Kansas City.

Responsibilities

• Assigned transactional and ad-hoc activities are complete, appropriately timely, accurately executed, and related documentation assembled, filed and retained in accordance with Littler Policies and relevant external requirements and regulations. Assignments may include, but are not limited to exempt, non-exempt and other payroll administration, employee set-up and maintenance, onboarding and termination payments and related calculations, time administration and entry, bonus and other non-recurring payments, incentive/holdback administration, statutory, benefit and other deduction administrations and validation, payroll tax matters, month end and other periodic reconciliation, analysis and reporting, and other activities in response to current and future business needs.
• Only approved payments to employees for valid time (or other unit of measurement) worked are paid via the appropriate method, with all deductions and taxes appropriately withheld and after all internal controls have been completed.
• Department policies and procedures are consistently complied with.
• Inquiries from Shareholders, other employees, vendors and other third parties are addressed in a timely matter and appropriately resolved.
• Oral and written communications are effective, professional and appropriate to the circumstance.
• Collaboration and communication between Payroll team members, accounting & finance group departments, and other corporate / firm departments is appropriate in the circumstance and effective.
• Team members are motivated, seek ongoing performance feedback, training and professional development opportunity. Firm Employee policies and procedures are followed and enforced.
• Personal improvement, growth and development objectives are set, actioned and evaluated annually.
• Perform such other/additional duties as may from time to time be assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of payroll practices and policies sufficient to execute payroll transactions, validate timesheets, PTO and other absence requests, process statutory, benefit and other deductions and withholdings, record and validate employee and other master data, research and respond to inquiries and questions and complete account reconciliation, periodic and ad-hoc reports.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel, sufficient to complete basic account analysis and reconciliation. Demonstrated ability to leverage Microsoft Word and Outlook to communicate effectively and create and edit documents. Demonstrated ability to execute transactions, and extract and analyze data from UKG (Ulimate Kronos Group).
• Proven ability to exercise sound judgment in financial and accounting matters. Demonstrated ability to effectively raise issues and consult with department manager to resolve issues and ensure compliance with firm policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to execute multiple tasks and high workload volume without material impact on error rates or client service. Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and master new processes, steps, policies and technical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate process steps and draw comparisons between processes and measures of output such as productivity, efficiency and quality.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in person and via e-mail and telephone with internal and external clients and vendors, receive instructions and provide information with ordinary courtesy and tact.
• Demonstrated ability to execute tasks efficiency and effectively within expected timeframes.
  
  

Education And Certifications

Preferred: Associate degree

Experience Required

Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience preferably within a Payroll Department within a large professional environment.

About Littler

Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice in the world exclusively devoted to representing management. With more than 1,800 attorneys in over 100 offices worldwide, Littler serves as the single source solution provider to the global employer community. Consistently recognized in the industry as a leading and innovative law practice, Littler has been litigating, mediating and negotiating some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 75 years.

Littler’s unparalleled commitment to labor and employment law helps clients navigate a complex business world with nuanced legal issues—building better solutions for clients’ toughest challenges. With deep experience and resources that are local, everywhere, Littler is fully focused on its clients. With a diverse team of the brightest minds, Littler fosters a culture that celebrates original thinking. And with powerful proprietary technology, Littler disrupts the status quo—delivering bold, groundbreaking innovation that prepares employers not just for what’s happening today, but for what’s likely to happen tomorrow.

Benefits

We offer a generous benefits package to full-time and part-time employees working at least a 50% schedule. Benefits include comprehensive health, dental and vision plan for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children. In addition, we provide a superior 401(k) plan, ample time off programs, mental health programs, family building and caregiving, generous paid parental leave, life insurance, disability insurance, a wellness program, flexible spending accounts, and an employee referral bonus program.

For more information about our benefits visit: www.littler.com/benefits/state-details.

For more information about our firm visit: www.littler.com.

No recruiters – principals only. Littler is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. Search firms who submit candidates for this position are not eligible for any form of compensation, even if the candidate is successfully hired.

For inquiries regarding this opportunity, please e-mail Amy Langan at ALangan@littler.com with the job title in the subject line.

Littler Mendelson is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

This job posting is a general description of the types of responsibilities that are required of an individual in this job. It is not intended to be a complete list of the responsibilities, duties and skills that may be required for this job.

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