Payroll Technician (Accountant-UMP)

Payroll Technician (Accountant-UMP)

Join our team and take on a pivotal role in managing the Department's payroll and personnel-related financial operations. In this position, you will develop and maintain personal services cost projections and budget models, serve as the primary liaison for payroll, benefits, retirement, and workers' compensation, and ensure accurate, timely processing through the reconciliation of decentralized payroll and timekeeping systems. You will prepare key GAAP reporting data, contribute to the development of departmental policies and procedures, independently resolve payroll inquiries, and support a wide range of fiscal and administrative functions that keep our operations running smoothly. This is an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented professional who thrives in a collaborative, service-focused environment.

Essential Functions:

• Prepares and maintains personal services cost projections and budget models for payroll and fiscal related transactions by fund for all operational divisions or cost centers within the Department.
• Administers and acts as agency liaison for the administration of payroll, benefits, retirement, and workers' compensation.
• Maintains and reconciles the agency's decentralized payroll, timekeeping, and benefit systems to ensure that accurate and timely processing of transactions are accomplished.
• Prepares GAAP reporting data for Compensated Absences and other reports related to payroll, timekeeping, and benefits for supervisor review.
• Assists with writing and maintaining Department policy and procedures related to the accounting and budgeting of payroll and benefit transactions.
• Independently resolves payroll inquiries and completes appropriate adjustments.
• Performs other duties that are required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college, with courses in business administration and accounting or four years of technical accounting experience.
• **** Qualifying state employees in the employee Upward Mobility Program may complete combinations of specific proficiency tests and training programs leading to a certificate of proficiency in lieu of the stated requirements for this classification.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prefers four years of experience working with the various personnel codes, Rules & Pay Plan, the Bargaining Unit agreements, Healthcare Benefits plans, and retirement system regulations.
• Prefers two years of experience working with the Microsoft Office Suite, specifically utilizing formulas and functions in Microsoft Excel and database management in Microsoft Access.
• Prefers two years of experience in professional accounting and auditing theory, principles, methods, and procedures.
• Prefers two years of experience utilizing the laws, rules, and regulations relating to state or non-state accounting or auditing procedures.
• Prefers two years of experience demonstrating the ability to perform payroll reconciliations.

Conditions of Employment:

• Requires ability to pass a criminal background check.

Work Hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm Monday-Friday

Headquarter Location: 1 Natural Resources Wy, Springfield, Illinois, 62702

Work County: Sangamon

Agency Contact: Nick Gilmore

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