What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Payroll Specialist position at Towne Family of Companies?
As a Senior Payroll Specialist, you may look forward to :
- Auditing employee time and attendance system ensuring data is accurate and compliant
- Following up with supervisors and employees on time clock issues before payroll is processed
- Communicating payroll deadlines to supervisors and HR team
- Executing and reconciling payroll hours interface between time and attendance system and core payroll system
- Creating payroll import files using Microsoft Excel
- Entering, reviewing and verifying employee master data changes as required
- Ensuring compliance with federal, state and local minimum wage laws; notifying HR directors when non-compliant situations arise
- Entering and maintaining accurate recurring earnings and deductions, including (but not limited to) wage attachments, employee stock purchase plan deductions, country club dues reimbursements, cell phone reimbursements, auto allowance and employee club
- Processing and reconciling regularly scheduled and off-cycle payrolls
- Retaining all required documentation per record retention guidelines
- Producing scheduled and ad-hoc reports utilizing HRIS reporting tool, ensuring data accuracy, professional / clear formatting and timely delivery
- Preparing and providing reports to outside agencies (i.e. BLS, state and federal governmental surveys) as needed
- Responding to employee questions and concerns related to payroll
- Researching payroll issues and resolving them using root cause / preventative solution methodology
- Proposing process improvements (i.e. audit reports) that result in more accurate, timely and efficient payroll processing
- Processing employment verifications
- Partnering with Payroll Tax Accountant to ensure accurate tax withholdings
- Creating and maintaining payroll procedure documents
- Keeping abreast of payroll related federal and state regulations
- Handling other duties and special projects as assigned
- Obeys all applicable federal laws, rules, and regulations relating to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
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Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
