Position Summary:

Successful Payroll Benefit Specialist enjoy the challenges of supporting a growing manufacturer in ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions. The ideal team member will be passionate about ensuring accurate data and supporting the full employee life cycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Process bi-weekly payroll accurately and on time through UKG – HR information system

• Audit payroll records to ensure accuracy of pay changes, deductions, tax withholdings and other garnishments

• Ensure management team is verifying all timesheets prior to payroll processing

• Verify direct deposit banking information for new team members and process updates for current employees

• Process production bonus, quarterly bonuses, pay increases and promotions

• Participate in audits as necessary

• Ensure 401k contribution file has been sent to the 401k provider and conduct regular audits

• Update employee contributions to HSA bank

• Assist team members with all payroll and benefit related questions and requests

• Respond to unemployment and workers comp claims or requests for wage information, maintain records

• Maintain knowledge of benefit laws/regulations, assist with oversight and guidance of internal procedure to ensure compliance and consistency

• Support, develop and communicate activities with team members to promote the wellness program and solicit team participation

• Support and Coordinate employee group events: Annual picnic, Christmas Party, team building events, additional company events as needed

• Cooperate with the operations team in coordinating safety trainings – annual hearing testing, annual safety committee training

• Assist with contacting tax agencies regarding tax notices when required. Responsible for regular review of tax issues, follow up, and escalation of tax matters.

• Support year-end reporting and internal auditing, as needed

• HRIS – Maintenance and troubleshooting of data and reports

• Assist with Benefit Orientation for New Hires

• Support HR department initiatives, policies, and procedures

• Partner with the benefits administration vendors to administer the employee benefit programs with regards to open enrollment

• Assist with the administration of the company’s leave program

• Responsible for timely completion and submission of required reports

• Assist with the planning, development and implementation of well-being initiatives

• Perform all other essential job-related duties as required

Essential Functions

• Demonstrated mathematical and communications proficiency with strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
• Able to think strategically and tactically (detail-oriented)
• Effect positive change, but remain flexible and able to adapt to company growth and evolving responsibilities
• Impeccable relational skills and can create win/win environments for all parties that you work with.
• Maintains confidentiality, exercises discretion at all times
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Able to work within a team environment as well as independently
• Demonstrate commitment in company results
• Treat everyone with respect
• Willing and able to travel
• Commitment to working safely
• Advanced MS Office Suite skills and keyboarding skills
• HRIS experience
• Excellent project management and organization skills including ability to manage multiple, changing priorities in a team-oriented manufacturing environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Effectively interact in a team environment with senior leadership, their peer group, and the ability to relate and understand a situations
• Capable of developing working relationships with a wide range of people

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily as well as the ability to handle situations by working as a team.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Associate degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or related field with a minimum of 2 years experience or equivalent experience.

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Knowledge of High Performance Work Teams/Self Directed Work Team is preferred.

Language Skills

Able to communicate and comprehend in the English Language to perform the duties of this position.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use his or her hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to accurately compare color and pattern of products to quality control standards. Frequent requirement for attention to detail; prolonged use of a computer terminal, telephones, and other electronic equipment. The employee must be able to lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment (plant) is usually moderate to occasionally loud and PPE is required. Appropriate hearing protection while in the plant is required as noise levels within the facility meet OSHA requirements for hearing protection equipment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. The work environment is typically in an office although work projects may possibly take them to non-standard workplaces.