Payroll Clerk

Maimonides Medical Center is currently seeking a full-time Payroll Clerk to support payroll operations, including processing payroll, reviewing electronic timecards, handling adjustment requests, performing audits and reconciliations, calculating overtime, ensuring tax law compliance, generating reports, and maintaining accurate benefit accrual records for full-time and part-time employees.

• Process payroll in accordance with established timelines and procedures
• Review employee time and attendance records for accuracy and completeness
• Perform overtime calculations and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax laws
• Update and adjust employee accrual balances using the Kronos historical edit panel
• Input vacation requests and accrual adjustments into the timekeeping system
• Review and process new hire, change, and termination forms received from Human Resources
• Prepare and process documents to record payroll-related transactions
• Perform audits and reconciliations of payroll data and accrual balances
• Respond to employee inquiries regarding pay, deductions, and accruals
• Prepare off-cycle check requests as needed for corrections or late vacation entries
• Review and reconcile payroll run reports prior to payroll confirmation
• Generate payroll summary reports and retrieve data from PeopleSoft and microfiche systems

Education:

High school graduation or equivalent required.

Experience:

2 years of payroll experience preferred.

Skills:

Must have basic computer skills

Typing: 25 wpm (tested)

Must pass alphanumeric skills test.

Must pass basic math skills test.

Good oral and written communication skills.

Speaks, reads and writes English to the extent required by the position.