Payroll Specialist

Tidal Wave Management • Thomaston, GA

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About The Position

The Payroll Specialist processes all aspects of payroll and provides a high level of customer service. The role requires effective oral and written communication across organizational levels, efficiency and flexibility when completing detailed tasks in a fast-paced environment with interruptions, changing priorities, and multiple deadlines, and maturity when handling sensitive and confidential matters. The Payroll Specialist also assists with payroll account reconciliation as needed.

Requirements

• Prior experience in a customer service environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Knowledge of Wage and Hour Law.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Professional, driven, motivated self-starter.
• Must be able to pass a drug test and criminal background check.
• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Two years of experience processing payroll, including collecting, calculating, and entering data.
• Knowledge of Workday payroll software or the ability to learn specific applications.

Responsibilities

• Compile payroll data, post wages, and reconcile errors to balance payroll and maintain payroll records.
• Operate standard office equipment and use required software applications to produce correspondence and electronic communications and maintain spreadsheets and databases.
• Identify and resolve internal discrepancies.
• Process the weekly transfer of payroll data to the payroll system.
• Research employee questions concerning paychecks or pay in general.
• Support and sustain a positive work environment that fosters team performance through personal work and behavior.
• Assist in reconciling payroll accounts as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid time off based on the company’s PTO policy.
• Eligibility for health, dental, and vision coverage, subject to a 30-day waiting period.
• Eligibility for a 401(k), subject to plan terms.
• Eligibility for life insurance, short- and long-term disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accidental coverage, subject to a 30-day waiting period.
• Company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

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