Payroll Clerk

Salary: $23.00 to $25.00 hourly

Description

We are offering a contract to permanent employment opportunity for a Payroll Clerk in Sanford, Florida. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the finance and human resources departments, ensuring the smooth running of payroll processes and systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring accurate and efficient processing of payroll data, including manual input and calculations of time, bonuses, and garnishments.
• Implementing and managing payroll information systems, including learning and applying new payroll software.
• Updating payroll records with changes in pay, time, exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, and job titles, and department/division transfers.
• Assisting in the production and issuance of paycards or electronic transfers to bank accounts.
• Preparing payroll reports, summarizing earnings, taxes, deductions, leaves, disability, and non-taxable wages.
• Calculating and approving liabilities for employee federal and state income and social security taxes, as well as employer’s social security, unemployment, and workers compensation payments.
• Resolving payroll discrepancies to ensure balanced payroll accounts.
• Responding to questions and requests for payroll information.
• Keeping abreast with existing and new payroll-related legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements and advising management on necessary actions.
• Maintaining confidentiality of payroll operations to ensure employee confidence.
• Continually updating detail oriented and technical knowledge.
• Completing other related tasks as required, contributing to team effort.
  
  
  

Requirements

• 3 years of payroll experience
• Paylocity experience a plus
• Ability to handle garnishments effectively and accurately
• Capable of reconciling payroll discrepancies and anomalies
  
  
  

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