Payroll Accountant
Classification: Payroll Administrator
Compensation: $30.05 to $35.90 hourly
Robert Half has a new opportunity for a Payroll Accountant for a growing organization in the New Brighton, MN area. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational skills and full-cycle payroll experience. This candidate should have experience in maintaining a database of financial information and be able to recognize and solve any problems that may arise. Candidates with proven experience in high volume environments are encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities:
- Process bi-weekly high volume multi-state payroll for select employee groups.
- Process data for new hires, employment/pay changes, employee deductions, and terminations for supported group of employees.
- Review and identify anomalies in payroll data for supported employees.
- Complete peripheral tasks including vacation/sick reporting, employment verification, wage garnishment compliance, unemployment verifications, etc.
- Resolve payroll discrepancies and irregularities in a timely fashion.
- Support employees and other departments with payroll-related questions and requests.
- Assist with periodic compliance requirements, including W-2 processing.
- Maintain and retain appropriate documentation.
- Understand and follow established procedures while seeking to identify and implement process improvements.
- Support other payroll and accounting staff in tasks as needed, including ability to process other payroll groups.
- Additional payroll duties as assigned.
- Minimum three years’ experience performing payroll processing and related functions, preferably in multi-state environment.
- Strong understanding of payroll concepts.
- Team-player mentality, strong work ethic, and sense of pride in producing timely, high-quality work.
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to think critically, solve problems, prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
- Exercise sound judgment and discretion; maintain confidentiality.
- Fundamental understanding of accounting concepts gained through education and/or experience.
- Proficient in Excel
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