Payroll Services Supervisor (PCN 250044)

State of Alaska•Juneau, AK

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is seeking a Payroll Supervisor to lead and support payroll staff responsible for one of the State’s largest and most complex payroll operations. This role involves fostering a positive team culture, mentoring and developing staff, promoting collaboration, and building a workplace culture focused on engagement, accountability, and retention. The supervisor will oversee payroll operations to ensure compliance with rules and regulations, resolve complex payroll and personnel issues, and serve as a trusted resource. Additionally, they will monitor workloads, identify process improvement opportunities, and ensure payroll services are delivered accurately, timely, and with a strong customer-service focus. This is an opportunity for a payroll professional to solve complex payroll, leave, and compensation challenges within a specialized, non-integrated payroll system.

Requirements

Competency in 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.
Competency in Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information; makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
Competency in Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of hiring, classification, benefits, labor relations, negotiation, and Federal, state, and local employment regulations.
Competency in Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; 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. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ, discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.
Competency in Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience in payroll services, human resource management, business administration, supporting management in running an organization/enterprise or supporting professionals working in human resources (such as recruitment, payroll, classification and compensation, employee and labor-management relations, employer provided benefit programs, employment law compliance, or employee training).

Responsibilities

Lead and support payroll staff responsible for one of the State’s largest and most complex payroll operations.
Mentor and develop staff, promote collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Build a workplace culture focused on engagement, accountability, and retention.
Oversee payroll operations to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations.
Resolve complex payroll and personnel issues.
Serve as a trusted resource to managers and employees.
Monitor workloads and identify opportunities for process improvement.
Ensure payroll services are delivered accurately, timely, and with a strong customer-service focus.