What are the responsibilities and job description for the Payroll Practitioner position at Northwest Bank?
Job Description
Job Summary
The Payroll Practitioner is responsible for processing payroll bi-weekly, including data entry, uploading time records, updating HRIS records concerning new hires, salary and tax information, time off, and terminations.
Essential Functions
- Ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations, Northwest policies, and procedures, and with third party vendors and agencies
- Identify and resolve compliance related issues, and employee payroll, tax, and related issues, and tax entity issues
- Keep abreast of local, state, and federal regulations / amendments
- Implement system changes to reflect government garnishments
- Perform data entry
- Process new hires and terminations, and terminated employees
- Produce specific reports as requested, and year end documents including W-2s
- Manage personal workload / workflow
- Complete salary verification for employees
- Create job codes, process changes, additions, and benefits including AD life, travel, and vacation
- Assist new team members in attaining knowledge of function
- Complete payment and filing of Federal / State / Local taxes bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly
- Process timecard information into HRIS system, and payroll (regular and supplemental)
- Monitor documentation for various leaves of absence
- Print, utilize machine to seal, and distribute pay stubs
- Coordinate and input salary adjustments, merit increases, retroactive pay, etc.
- Complete new employee details and setting up files, and salary adjustment notifications
- Input and monitor employee garnishments
- Process vendor checks, distributions, and deposits
- Reconcile payroll accounts
- Generate reports / reconciliation for tax payment
- Communicate with employees pertaining to their pay detail
- Compile and distribute performance reviews
- Monitor appraisal records and documentation
- Provide quarterly reporting on past due reviews
- Minimize departmental non payroll costs
- Maximize technology tools available
- Recommend improvements to procedures, and service and delivery enhancements
- Ensure total document / data integrity
Education Experience preferred
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