Payroll Assistant

This job requires HR experience. HR Assistant or HR Clerk with experience in Payroll and Timekeeping.
1. Review time sheets, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll
discrepancies.
2. Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll
system.
3. Act as a liaison regarding employee paperwork and other payroll related issues with the
Benefits, Human Resources, and Accounting Departments to streamline processes.
4. Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated
records in HRP.
5. Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into HRP.
6. Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and
update payroll records.
7. Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
8. Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.
9. Compile employee time, production, and payroll data reports from HRP and other records.
10. Prepare miscellaneous financial and operational reports in HRP upon request.
11. Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
12. Act as a Payroll Specialist back-up by processing payrolls as well as prepare paychecks for
distribution, both for on-cycle and off-cycle payrolls.
13. Address non-escalated client and employee issues in a timely manner.
14. Perform payroll audits to update client and employee data in HRP.
15. Back-up reception desk as needed.
16. Assist in special projects at the direction of the Payroll Specialists and Assistant Director of the
Payroll Department.