Payroll Specialist

About the Role

The Town of Castle Rock’s future and the quality of that depend on the choices we make today. Do you want to be part of a team that make decisions that work now while preserving and protecting Castle Rock’s identity and quality of life for the future? We value teamwork, cooperation, and quality communication. Key duties include payroll processing and reporting. includes auditing and reviews personnel action forms and processes accurate voluntary and mandatory withholdings and deductions. enters accurate accrual rates.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for payroll processing and reporting. Includes auditing, processing, and reporting of all Town employee time sheets with extensive cross referencing and balancing to ensure a high level of accuracy.
• Reviews Personnel Action Forms and processes accurate voluntary and mandatory withholdings and deductions. Enters accurate accrual rates, direct deposit information, and cost center changes.
• Initiates and maintains master files for bank routing and account information. Reconciles payroll interface report. Balances funds and ensures all general ledger account codes are valid.
• Initiates and maintains cost centers and pay codes. Ensures payroll is expensed to correct general ledger accounts. Provides reconciled payroll information to the Accounting Manager and auditors for inclusion in the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).
• Initiates, reconciles, maintains, reports, and pays employee benefits, including health, dental, life, retirement and deferred compensation to the appropriate plan providers. Prepares and reconciles reports; includes payroll journal entries and related account reconciliations.
• Maintains confidential payroll files and scans timesheets. Files mandated payroll reports with the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration, State Department of Revenue, and Workers Compensation.
• Plans, leads and participates in a wide variety of special projects related to Payroll processes and systems.
• Researches payroll issues, state and federal tax law, wage and hour regulations, and applies in an appropriate manner.
• Prepares specialized reports upon request and answers questions concerning pay calculations.
• Provides employment verifications.
• Assists with coverage of inquiries and timely correspondence for the payroll email inbox.
• Provides customer and client support to employees and departments across the organization. Delivers responsive assistance and high-quality customer service through email, verbal, and written communication.
• May coordinate and deliver training sessions to employees and departments to support understanding of processes, systems, or procedures.
• Stays current with new developments related to payroll and maintains awareness of federal, state and local regulations and Town of Castle Rock Personnel Guidelines.
• Prepares annual audit work papers and accounting report schedules.
• Assists with or coordinates special projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Requirements

• Education: High School Diploma or GED equivalent supplemented with coursework in accounting
• Experience: At least three (3) years of progressively responsible payroll processing experience or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Knowledge of payroll procedures, processes and understanding of related controls and safeguards.
• Knowledge of personal computers and MS Office applications such as Excel and Word.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Knowledge of HRIS/Finance systems.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to calculate, compute, summate, and/or tabulate data and/or information. Includes the ability to perform subsequent actions in relation to computational operations.
• Knowledge of computer software programs for accounting and payroll functions.
• Knowledge of Town guidelines, procedures and policies that affect payroll processing.
• Knowledge of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 207(k) police and firefighter exemption provisions of the FLSA. Ensures overtime is calculated appropriately for eligible employees.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisor, support staff and other departments/agencies position interacts with.
• Strong communication skills to address complex payroll issues and to lead projects.

Compensation

• Hourly Range: $28.60 to $38.62

Benefits

• Free membership to Miller Activity Complex (MAC) or Recreation Center
• Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness eligible
• Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) retirement plan with employer contribution
• Career Advancement Programs
• Competitive total compensation with benefits package