Payroll Clerk

Job Description:

Payroll Clerk is responsible for maintaining payroll operations such as collecting, calculating, and entering data, preparing reports, and processing employees’ payroll.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Ensure that employee payroll processing is in compliance with federal and state laws.
• Collect information on the working hours of each employee and maintain payroll information by collating, calculating, and entering data
• Prepares reports by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and nontaxable wages
• Updates payroll records by entering changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, and job title and department/division transfers
• Determine the right payroll amount by calculating overtime, bonuses etc.
• Determines payroll liabilities by calculating employee federal and state income and social security taxes and employer's social security, unemployment, and workers compensation payments
• Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential
• Resolves payroll discrepancies by collecting and analyzing information.
• Answer employees' questions about payroll
• Prepare periodic payroll reconciliation and submit reports to the payroll manager for review
• Oversee salary changes, compensations, deductions, bonus, vacations payouts, and benefits for employees
• Set-up payroll arrangements for new hires and terminate ex-employee profiles
• Maintains payroll operations by following policies and procedures; reporting needed changes
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Processing and issuing W-2 forms to employees
• Calculating payroll liabilities by determining employee taxes, including federal and state income and social security tax, and calculating employer’s payments for social security, unemployment, and worker’s compensation
• Updating payroll records by entering any changes to employee information or benefits such as job title changes, exemptions and saving deductions
• Preparing reports that include summaries of earnings, tax deductions, leave, compassionate leave and non-taxable wages
• Resolving payroll discrepancies and answering any employee payroll queries
• Processing and issuing W-2 forms to employees
• Processing temp agency and health insurance invoices and reconcile garnishments,
• Reports to Director of Finance

Skills and Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Computer software, data entry, communications, and basic office skills; ability to work with confidential information
• Payroll software experience, ADP
• Attention to detail
• High school diploma or equivalent; associate or bachelor's degrees preferred in human resource management, business, or a related field
• Have good organizational skills and be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong Math and Numeracy Skills

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)

Physical setting:

• Office

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Garden Grove, CA 92841: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Payroll: 4 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $25