Payroll Specialist

City of Hope•Irwindale, CA

About The Position

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. This position is responsible for routine clerical processes required to produce timely and accurate payrolls for COH and subsidiary companies.

Requirements

Education: Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training, Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements
Experience: Two years accounting experience including one-year minimum payroll experience.
Required Courses/Training: Principles of Accounting, Business Mathematics, Payroll Procedures. Data Processing experience.

Nice To Haves

Preferred Experience: Concentration/attention to detail required when verifying payroll computations

Responsibilities

Maintains accurate payroll records.
Reviews and prepares time and monetary input for leaves of absences.
Updates computer system with payroll information for new hires and changes (tax filing status, deductions, etc).
Verifies that employee information entered into the computer system by Human Resources is accurate; i.e. rate of pay, social security number, tax status, exemptions, etc.
Calculates retroactive rate increases and prepares input forms.
Provides timely and accurate data entry of changes and adjustments.
Prepares semi-monthly payroll balancing controls.
Provides assistance to employees with payroll questions and/or problems.
Provides assistance to maintain API T&A system.
Inputs data and maintains API’s Grant Tracking feature.
Audits API reports and advises departments of possible errors.
Distributes Payroll reports.
Calculates termination and correction checks. Forwards calculations to another Payroll staff member for verification. Prints and distributes checks.
Calculates integration of SDI benefits and inputs into API.
Balance both payroll processing requirements and complete work in a timely manner. Ability to effectively communicate if/when deadlines may not be met.