What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst Payroll - Accounting (Days) position at Tanner Health?
Under the supervision of the VP of Finance, the Payroll Financial Analyst will be part of a team that is responsible for ensuring all aspects of the payroll cycle, including tax, benefits, wage attachments, etc. are processed, reconciled, audited and transmitted accurately and timely.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Experience: Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
NONE REQUIRED
Qualifications
A minimum of 3 years payroll related experience and knowledge of IRS tax filings required.
Will accept an Associates and 5 years' experience.
Excellent written and oral communications skills are required to teach classes, do presentations, and educate all staff at all skill levels.
Strong interpersonal skills to interact as a liaison between the Accounting department and customers both internal and external.
Ability to work with detailed information, and errors that are not easily detected.
Ability to prioritize job duties in order to meet and work under frequent deadlines.
Ability to perform at best on a consistent basis and to maintain confidentiality at all times.
Ability to meet employees at their level of understanding to communicate necessary financial information.
Requirements:Statement Of Employment Philosophy
Being a part of Tanner Health System is more than a job, it is a promise we make to treat every patient with exceptional service every time they walk through our doors. Service excellence is the foundation of our organizational culture and the expectations we all set for each other, our patients, physicians and our community. All employees agree to abide by a set of service standards. These standards are the promise we make to provide the best care possible, and represent our beliefs, values and who we strive to become. We each commit to making Tanner Health System a great place for our employees to work, for patients to receive care and for physicians to practice medicine.
Functions
Area of Responsibilities
Perform a variety of technical and confidential duties related to the processing and administration of employee payroll. Ensures all aspects of the payroll cycle, including tax, benefits, wage attachment, etc. are processed, reconciled, audited and transmitted accurately and timely.
Manage details and scheduling for all special pay cycles such as commissions, bonus and special payments, equity, merit increases and adjustments
Analyze and review payroll time and attendance data. Handle quality control and auditing to ensure accuracy with minimal errors.
Analyze and review productivity metrics and benchmarks
Create custom reports and analyze large amounts of information to support mandatory reporting, day to day and ad hoc business needs.
Support quarterly and year-end payroll processing reporting (W-2s)
Track and manage liens, garnishments, and all other special payroll deductions
Monitor and implement statutory updates for regulations relating to payroll and time tracking
Assist customers with payroll related questions and serve as advisor to others in department
Assist with preparation of yearly cost reports, surveys, and audit information for payroll related items
Analyze payroll data and trends for monthly financial statements
Assist leadership with other duties as assigned.
Compliance Statement
Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Experience: Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
NONE REQUIRED
Supervision
Exercises no supervision, work direction, or instruction of other employees or students
Qualifications
A minimum of 3 years payroll related experience and knowledge of IRS tax filings required.
Will accept an Associates and 5 years of experience.
Excellent written and oral communications skills are required to teach classes, do presentations, and educate all staff at all skill levels.
Strong interpersonal skills to interact as a liason between the Accounting department and customers both internal and external.
Ability to work with detailed information, and errors that are not easily detected.
Ability to prioritize job duties in order to meet and work under frequent deadlines.
Ability to perform at best on a consistent basis and to maintain confidentiality at all times.
Ability to meet employees at their level of understanding to communicate necessary financial information.
Definitions
Under the supervision of the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Financial Analyst will be part of a team that is responsible for ensuring all aspects of the payroll cycle, including tax, benefits, wage attachments, etc. are processed, reconciled, audited and transmitted accurately and timely.
Position Responsibilities
Contact with Others: Performance of job requires contact with others where team work is essential, requiring tact in order to obtain cooperation. Contacts may be outside of the organization also.
Effect of Error: Probable errors not easily detected and may adversely affect external as well as internal relationships and may result in major expenditures for equipment, materials, or procedures detrimental to the patient's welfare or the organization's interest. Work is subject to general review only and requires considerable accuracy and responsibility. Continually works with reports, records, plans, and programs of a major functional area of the organization where integrity is required to safeguard the organization's position. Duties may involve the preparation of data on which the administration bases important decisions and are highly confidential.
People Management Responsibilities
Supervisory Responsibility: Exercises no supervision, work direction, or instruction of other employees or students
Work Environment/Physical Effort
Mental Demands: Work involves a variety of problems in a general field, some of which are complex. Involves some independent judgment to decide what to do to assemble facts, determine variations from standard procedures, or plan other action to be taken to meet general objectives.
Working Conditions: Generally pleasant working conditions/normal office environment.
Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations
Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): No
Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: No
Physical Effort: Minor physical effort - Job requires person to stand and/or walk frequently. Lifts, carries, or uses lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.) materials or equipment less than half of the day. Works in reaching or strained position intermittently. Office or laboratory work requires close visual effort less than half of day. Office or Laboratory work with concentration on a monotonous, repetitious procedure or skill most of day, where speed and accuracy are essential.
Physical Aspects
Bending: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Typing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Feeling (Touch) - determining temperature, texture, by touching: Not required
Hearing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Reaching - above shoulder: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Reaching - below shoulder: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.
Visual: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Color Vision: Not required
Speaking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Standing: Not required
Balancing: Not required
Walking: Not required
Crawling: Not required
Running - in response to an emergency: Not required
Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Lifting over 60 lbs.: Not required
Handling - seizing, holding, grasping: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Carrying: Not required
Climbing: Not required
Kneeling: Not required
Squatting: Not required
Tasting: Not required
Smelling: Not required
Driving - Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Not required
Driving - Class C vehicles: Not required
Driving - CDL class vehicles: Not required
N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Not required
Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Not required
Pushing/Pulling - up to 25 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Pushing/Pulling - 25 to 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Pushing/Pulling - over 60 lbs. : Not required