PAYROLL CLERK

Job Title

Payroll Clerk

Job Description

The Payroll Clerk compiles payroll data to complete payroll cycles and maintain payroll records.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Compile payroll data such as hours worked, time tracking, taxes, insurance, and garnishments to be withheld, and employee identification number, from time sheets and other records.
• Prepare computer input forms, enters data into computer files, or computes wages and deductions and posts to payroll records.
• Review wages computed and corrects errors to ensure accuracy of payroll.
• Record changes affecting net wages such as exemptions, insurance coverage, and loan payments for each employee to update master payroll records.
• Record data concerning transfers of employees between departments.
• Prorate expenses to be debited or credited to each department for cost accounting records.
• Prepare periodic reports of earnings, taxes, and deductions.
• Keep records of leave pay and nontaxable wages.
• Prepare and issue paychecks.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED certificate.
• Two (2) years of progressive experience in a clerical or payroll capacity. Working knowledge of payroll procedures. General clerical aptitude.
• Above average organizational and communication skills. Ability to understand and carry out moderately complex oral and written instructions; to make minor decisions in accordance with rules and regulations as they apply to work problems; to maintain company records; and to meet and deal effectively with employees and inmates. Must be able to deal with people in a variety of changing and complex situations.
• Ability to prepare basic written reports.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.

You'll spend most of your time in a comfortable office setting. You'll also have to:

• Occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull up to 40 lbs., bend, stoop, reach above shoulder level, climb, walk, and stand.

Equal Opportunity Employer