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Accounting, Payroll and Finance > Payroll Coordinator

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Short Description:

Coordinate one or multiple departments' payroll activities and compile record employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, commission, lost wages, deductions, or prepare paychecks.

Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Review time sheets, work charts, wage computations, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
  • Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
  • Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
  • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
  • Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
  • Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
  • Keep track of employees' leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave.
  • Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
  • Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
  • Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.

Skills / Requirements / Qualifications

  • Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Accounting Software: Accurate NXG; Blackbaud The Financial Edge; FlexiLedger software; Intuit Quicken software
  • Compliance Software: Corporate Responsibility System Technologies Limited CRSTL Compliance Positioning System; FLS eDP. Payroll tax; Intrax ProcedureNet; Paisley Cardmap
  • Accounting Software: Intuit QuickBooks software; Intuit Quicken software
  • Electronic Mail Software: Email software; Microsoft Outlook; Novell GroupWise
  • Human Resources Software: ADP Enterprise HRMS; API Navigator; Human Resource MicroSystems HR Entre; Sage Abra HRMS
  • Spreadsheet Software: Microsoft Excel
  • Time Accounting Software: ADP eTIME; Unitime Systems Software; Virtual Software Virtual Timecard; WorkForce Software EmpCenter Time and Attendance
  • Word Processing Software: Microsoft Word

Job Zones

 

  • Education: These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
  • Related Experience: Some previous work-related skills, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. 
  • Job Training: Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
  • Job Zone Examples: These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others.
  • Specific Vocational Preparation in years: (4.0 to < 6.0)

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