The Planet Group
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Payroll Manager
9300 Dix Ave Dearborn, MI 48120 US
Posted: 09/23/2024
2024-09-23
2024-11-02
Employment Type:
Direct Hire/Perm
Job Category: Accounting & Finance
Job Number: 623136
Country: United States
Is job remote?: No
Job Description
The Payroll Manager will:
The ideal candidate will have:
- Ensure that the in-house payroll system is working as expected and in compliance with federal and state laws, rules, and regulations by establishing controls, monitoring results, and collaborating with Human Resources.
- Work with IT to modify and adapt programming, processing methods, and reporting in response to changes in regulations, withholding rates, reporting needs, and changes within the company.
- Provide recommendations and alternatives to business issues by assisting in defining, analyzing, configuring, and testing different processes and application solutions.
- Collaborate with business resources to identify and develop process improvement initiatives
- Work with system consultants to resolve issues
- Respond to questions and proactively maintain regular communication with internal customers.
- Direct, establish goals for and monitor the performance of payroll team
- Maintain payroll information directing the collection, calculation, and entering of data
- Prepare various reports for management on a periodic and ad hoc basis
- Perform various journal entries, account reconciliations, and provides general ledger support
- Determine payroll liabilities by approving the calculation of employee federal and state income and social security taxes, and employer’s social security, unemployment, and payroll taxes
- Set up new employee information accounts and enters appropriate payroll elements
- Act as a backup to pay employees by directing the production and issuance of paychecks or electronic transfers to bank accounts
- Act as a backup for updating payroll records by reviewing and approving changes in exemptions, benefit coverage, union dues, other deductions, and taxes
- Balance the payroll accounts by resolving payroll discrepancies
- Adhere to and supports internal company policies
- Maintain payroll guidelines by writing and updating procedures and job aids
- Maintain employee privacy and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential
- Contribute to team efforts by providing expertise and accomplishing related results
- Calculate and facilitates payments of workers compensation premiums to select state programs
- Manage third party sick pay to employees’ records and enters other balance adjustments to reconcile employee’s payroll for W-2 purposes
- Manage year-end, quarterly, and monthly payroll processes
- Ensure the timely completion of all payroll tax reporting requirements and the issuance of W-2s
- Respond to all payroll audit requests
- Utilize timekeeping report system to check accuracy of Mexico payroll processing.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; participating in professional societies
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned by manager
The ideal candidate will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, IT, business, or related field
- Minimum of seven years of advanced payroll processing experience in a comprehensive ERP system
- Minimum of three years supervisory experience
- Strong computer skills (Excel, Word, Microsoft Outlook)
- Experience in utilizing Oracle or PeopleSoft payroll
- Strong analytical and problem resolution skills, critical thinking, and root-cause analysis
- Technical knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures in IT field
- Knowledge of Kronos or other timekeeping software
- Ability to lead cross functional teams to ensure communication and cooperation of team members and stakeholders.
- Knowledge of accounting principles, payroll taxes, and payroll regulations, employer liability accounts, union contract administration, benefit, and other deductions
- Advanced knowledge of payroll, payroll law, FLSA and multi-state payroll processing
- Ability to write SQL statements
- Basic knowledge of Business Intelligence concepts and tools
- Ability to explain simple and complex procedures or topics (verbally or in writing) to non-technical personnel
- Strong math skills
- Ability to work under pressure and within tight deadlines
- Ability to work occasionally beyond typical business hours
- Ability to sit, stand, walk for an extended period of time and lift up to 20 pounds
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