$53,000 - $63,000
Summary:
To coordinate the preparation and processing of the Township’s biweekly payroll, including processing timesheets, deductions, report generation, payroll reconciliation, quarterly tax reports, W-2 preparation, and related benefits payments and reconciliations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for knowing all payroll regulations
- Process all payroll jobs, verifying accuracy of output and preparing necessary changes
- Upload benefit payroll deductions to vendors
- Calculate, process, and input all employee garnishments, federal and state levies, and court-ordered deductions required by law for each payroll
- Prepare all journals for payroll funding as well as check requests for all payroll related liabilities for processing by the accounting department
- Assist employees, department heads, and union representatives with payroll related questions
- Reconcile payroll, the related liabilities, and prepare quarterly and annual tax returns
- Investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies
- Prepare copies of payroll information for yearly audit
- Prepare various reports including EEOC reports, payroll reports and labor negotiation reports
- Assist with entering, maintaining, and updating workforce records
- Assist with preparing grant requests
- Attend and participate in training as necessary
- Answer incoming benefits and payroll telephone calls and emails, including verification of employment requests and compensation surveys
- Performs other duties as required
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 1 to 3 years of experience managing payroll functions
- Any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities