Payroll Manager
Apply NowCompany: CERES Group
Location: Burlington, MA 01803
Description:
The Payroll Manager will be responsible for managing and administering all aspects of the payroll and timekeeping functions. The candidate must understand principles of payroll processing, payroll taxes, company-wide timekeeping, be able work well with business partners and interact professionally with all employees.
Specific Duties Include:
Specific Duties Include:
- Process accurate & timely payroll
- Perform production payroll tasks
- Perform pre and post payroll audits
- Analyze attendance data
- Follow-up on missing and/or incorrect data
- Understand and verify tax calculations
- Knowledge with employee and employer payroll income tax
- Understand and administer garnishment processing
- Troubleshoot basic system issues
- Independently trouble shoot all payroll related errors or problems
- Develop custom reports utilizing Cognos
- Document issues, resolutions and timing for all employee inquiries
- Take ownership for managing all aspects of designated responsibilities
- Communicate status/progress/future action items or recommendations to immediate manager
- Provides other administrative support to Finance management including maintaining files and performs additional projects and assignments in support of Finance as required.
- Operates as Plan Administrator if our 401(k) plan
- Maintains ownership of and performs as the Subject Matter Expert on the Timekeeping module with the corporate Accounting Software (Costpoint TESS)
- Maintains Payroll and Timekeeping staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
- Maintains Payroll and Timekeeping staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.