Payroll Representative

Carrols Corporation (NASDAQ: TAST) headquartered in Syracuse, NY is one of the largest restaurant franchisees in the United States. Founded over 60 years ago, Carrols began acquiring BURGER KING® restaurants in 1976 and POPEYES® restaurants in 2019 and is the largest BURGER KING® franchisee in the US today. Presently, Carrols owns and operates over 1,000 BURGER KING® restaurants and approximately 60 POPEYES® restaurants across 23 states. Carrols Restaurant Group became a public company on December 15, 2006, and currently employs over 30,000 people.

At Carrols, a job is never just a job. It’s a career. We are excited to search and bring on a new team member in our Payroll Department and we are currently recruiting for Payroll Representative to join our team. 

The Payroll Representative will be responsible for processing hourly and salaried payroll, preparing on-line payroll data for the timely and accurate payment of employees, balancing of payroll reports and records, answering payroll inquiries and providing guidance to internal and external personnel.

Summary of Key Job Responsibilities:

• Utilizes PeopleSoft payroll system process weekly payroll, adhering to processing schedule.
• Run various established queries to obtain payroll information.
• Reviews other processors work.
• Acts as backup to process direct deposit authorization forms.
• Review source documents such as correspondence and company forms to determine computer input necessary for required transactions. 
• Process imports from PeopleSoft database and audit transactions against source documents for accuracy.
• Determine and enter payroll input necessary to calculate the pay for new hires, terminations, and situations that require adjustments to normal pay.
• Prepare manual checks and generate required input data.
• Application of knowledge of Federal/State/Local tax withholding regulations to determine what taxes to withhold under a variety of situations.
• Verify accuracy of Human Resources/Payroll related transactions by utilizing various computerized audit reports.
• Analyze control reports for data accuracy.
• Research and investigate all problems, corrections, and questions relative to weekly payroll payments.
• Responsible for weekly child support and garnishment processes to interface with AP payments system.
• Runs weekly term garnishment process, pulling files and notifying courts of employee terminations.
•  New hire reporting process.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• High school diploma with work experience in accounting/payroll required.
• 2-year degree with Accounting course work and Payroll work experience desired.
• 1 to 2 years work experience in a Corporate Payroll department desired.
• Familiarity with payroll administration desired.

The pay range is $18.00 - 20.00 per hour depending on experience. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.