Payroll Services Assistant Manager (PCN 20-1029)

State of Alaska • Juneau, AK

4d • Onsite

About The Position

This position provides strategic training, oversight and direction for the Department of Corrections’ payroll services, acting as the department’s primary subject matter expert on complex payroll matters. The position establishes payroll policies, training manuals/materials and standards, ensures consistent statewide application of laws and collective bargaining agreements, and provides final review, mentoring and guidance on complex payroll issues, grievances, and compliance matters.

Requirements

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Managing Human Resources: Plans, distributes, coordinates, and monitors work assignments of others; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner.
• Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
• Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience providing payroll production and/or operations support to a business or organization, human resource management, business administration, public administration, or similar business field.

Nice To Haves

• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Team Building: Inspires and fosters team commitment, spirit, pride, and trust. Facilitates cooperation and motivates team members to accomplish group goals.
• Teaching Others: Helps others learn through formal or informal methods; identifies training needs; provides constructive feedback; coaches others on how to perform tasks; acts as a mentor.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic training, oversight and direction for the Department of Corrections’ payroll services.
• Acts as the department’s primary subject matter expert on complex payroll matters.
• Establishes payroll policies, training manuals/materials and standards.
• Ensures consistent statewide application of laws and collective bargaining agreements.
• Provides final review, mentoring and guidance on complex payroll issues, grievances, and compliance matters.

Benefits

• Ample parking
• Short walk to Sandy Beach
• Collaborative and customer service oriented work environment
• Team working as a tight knit group that values each other's contributions
• Interfaces daily with a variety of people including members of the public, field offices, other managers, directors, and within the Division of Administrative Services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed