Payroll Specialist

University Payroll Administrator

Employer: University of Central Missouri (UCM)

Salary: $24.04 Hourly

Location: UCMO - Warrensburg, MO

Job Type: Non-Exempt Staff Full Time

Opening Date: 05/26/2026

Description: Serve as administrator of the university payroll, to include directing semi-monthly payroll production to ensure adherence to accounting principles, governmental statutes, regulations, and university policies, as well as ensuring payrolls are timely and accurate by coordinating the activities of payroll staff. Review, analyze, and execute the semi-monthly payroll. Determine and calculate proper payments for new hires, employee status changes, terminations of employment, and employee loans. Provide oversight to ensure duties are performed in a timely manner to facilitate payroll. Balance payroll. Prepare corrective journal entries, as necessary. Prepare accounting transactions. Calculate and authorize payroll adjustments for missed earnings. Verify and/or correct budget coding, as necessary. Assist in the accurate and timely processing of W-2 forms. Provide assistance to staff employees performing payroll functions throughout the university. Execute employee wage assignments, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and county regulations, including: review and ensure compliance with child support orders, IRS levies, court-ordered garnishments, federal loan repayment assignments. Serve as a University representative regarding court-ordered interrogatories with the Sheriff's Department, circuit clerks, attorneys, etc. Review and interpret court orders to ensure compliance. Prepare accounting transactions to meet requirements. Prepare correspondence to accompany monthly payments, as necessary. Perform duties for all University payrolls, to include downloading check/advice statement information from the payroll database to produce check/advise statements. Modem transfer to the federal reserve bank all direct deposit information. Assist in the electronic file transfer of earnings information to the employee paychecks and the modem transfer deposit information to the bank. Prepare the Missouri New Hire Report, in compliance with federal requirements. Prepare and report employee provided graduate level educational assistance on a semester basis. Ensure the timely and accurate deposit of employee/University matching funds for 941 withholding deposits through the federal electronic funds transfer payment system. Perform system maintenance of the HRS system tables, including: calculation control master table, system calendars, and earning code table. Execute control cards to produce trial and final payrolls, as well as to reset monthly, quarterly, and annual accumulators. Participate in fiscal year closeout. In the absence of the Director, Payroll Services, administer/oversee hourly payrolls, as well as system table maintenance and withholding and quarterly reporting. Assist the Director of Payroll Services in the management of Payroll Services to include acting on behalf of the director of payroll services in their absence with the supervision of assigned employees. Recommend procedural and program enhancements to improve departmental efficiency and assists with implementation of payroll related policies and procedures. Provides assistance with payroll related problems, provides training for university departments and employees, and performs other duties as assigned.

Typical Qualifications: Education: Bachelor's degree in the following field(s) of study: Business, Finance, Accounting or related field. Education may be substituted for experience or if experience may be substituted for education. Note that equivalencies are based on the following: AA = 2 years experience; BA/BS = 4 years experience; MA/MS = 6 years experience. Experience: Three (3) years of Payroll/Benefit processing related activities experience, five (5) year preferred. Three (3) years experience related to personnel/payroll automated system. Banner experience preferred. Supervisory experience preferred.