Payroll and Benefits Coordinator - Prairie Material

Summary: Responsible for administering payroll and maintaining personnel files. Responsible for ensuring new and existing employees receive appropriate levels of benefit support to ensure quality of life.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Compiles payroll data, such as hours worked, taxes, insurance, union dues to be withheld, and employee identification number, from time sheets and other records.
• Determines pay and deductions include Federal and State taxes, insurance, retirement, union dues, savings, and other deductions.
• Data entry, includes entering for new hires, maintenance, and terminating of employees.
• Reconcile errors and maintain payroll records.
• Review wages computed and corrects errors to ensure accurate payroll.
• Records changes affecting net wages, such as exemptions, insurance coverage, and loan payments for each employee, to update master payroll records.
• Records data concerning transfer of employees between departments.
• Reviews communication as it relates to employees benefits. Orients new employees and/or current employees with information pertaining to employee benefit programs and providing enrollment/change forms and/or documentation to assist enrollment.
• Maintains Kelly Benefits System for addition and deletion of health benefits for employees.
• Compiles FMLA/STD paperwork received back from employee and submits for approval. Tracks FMLA leave and continues to monitor reports received weekly for continue approval of employee's leave for payment processing.
• Requests short-term disability (STD) payments through payroll. Completes ECN for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)/STD matters. Tracks FMLA leave and monitors employee's health benefits until leave requires employee to be placed on COBRA.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills:

• Possesses excellent organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Possesses above average Excel skills.
• Detail oriented and able to multi-task in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to work well with all levels of employees within the corporation and outside contacts.
• Ability to complete projects and duties as assigned in an accurate and timely fashion.

Education:

• Degree from college, university or technical school and one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge:

• Experience with Ceridian/Dayforce a plus
• Understands insurance and Health benefit requirements under State and Federal Guidelines
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to everyday business situations