Payroll Assistant Manager

Role Description

We’re always looking for talent that believes in having fun. At PENN Entertainment, you’ll get to be a part of an exciting industry, where the days and nights are fast-paced. You’ll work with an incredibly diverse set of coworkers driven by their enthusiasm for helping people find and have more fun. You’ll also get to work at a company that cares about your career growth and will help you get the support you need to expand your possibilities.

The following and other duties may be assigned as necessary:

• Responsible for supervising staff and the overall daily management of the Corporate Payroll department(s).
• Develops, implements and manages operational goals and monitors achievements of performance and profit objectives.
• Assists with creating effective and efficient schedules, while maintaining labor costs, meeting staffing objectives and achieving guest satisfaction.
• Approves and assists with any escalated wages, overtime payments, and payroll deductions issues.
• Assist with Kronos System Maintenance and interfaces.
• Assists with Shared Services HR and Payroll Help Desk Tickets.
• Ensures payroll information is entered by team accurately and in a timely manner.
• Addresses issues as they arise.
• Makes recommendations for process improvements.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations are followed.
• Investigates any FTO/PTO variances and collaborates with HR for verification of eligibility as needed.
• Cancels and approves re-issuing of checks as needed.
• Approves manual checks cut outside of normal pay cycles.
• Oversees holiday time processing and approves eligibility.
• Responsible for approving bi-weekly payroll after receipt and balancing is completed.
• Investigates and solves variance issues.
• Creates and generates ad hoc reporting as needed.
• Partners with HR Team and Payroll Manager to ensure 401(k) processing is completed as required by company.
• Assists with audits as required.
• Responsible for operational and administrative compliance with regulations imposed by federal and state taxing authorities.
• Enthusiastically supports, actively promotes, and demonstrates superior customer service in accordance with department and company standards and programs.
• Ensures customer service standards are followed by all team members and addresses issues as they arise.
• Responsible for ensuring the compliance with all regulatory compliance within area of responsibility and reporting potential issues to management.
• Maintains strict confidentiality in all departmental and company matters.

Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree (A.A.) in Accounting or other related field; or two or more years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must have previous supervisory experience.
• Experience with multi-unit company preferred.
• Must have excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Must be able to perform job duties of subordinate Team Members, when emergencies arise.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft applications (Excel, Access, Outlook, and Word).
• Knowledge of UltiPro and ADP systems highly preferred but not required.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
• Must have strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Must have strong organization skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks at once.

Requirements

• This job will have supervisory responsibilities.
• Responsible for staff development and training programs.
• Responsible for rewards and recognition program to maximize employee engagement.
• Evaluates team members within department and delivers constructive feedback to employees in regards to performance.
• Provides recommendation for staffing (including interviewing and hiring) and scheduling (planning, assigning and directing work) to meet business needs.
• Manages work procedures and expedites workflow.
• Responsible for employee performance (disciplining, coaching, counseling).

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and peripheral vision.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Must have the ability to push, pull, reach, bend, twist, stoop, stack, crouch, kneel and balance when performing job duties in varying work areas such as confined spaces.

Work Environment

• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.
• Employee could be exposed to an environment containing unrestricted second hand tobacco smoke.

Starting Salary

Starting from $55,000 annually, based on experience.