PAYROLL SPECIALIST

LOCATION: GST BOCES CENTRAL BUSINESS OFFICE

Full-time (1.0 FTE), 7.5 hours per day, 12 months per year position

• Maintain payroll file; process bi-weekly/ semimonthly payroll; enter payroll information for all time-sheets, and staff; enter claim forms/ vouchers information; verify and post timesheets; calculate and post time sheets; input initial salaries and updates; print salary notices
• Accounts Payable (related to payroll): Open pay schedule; post payroll to A/P; add payroll deductions payroll; verify payments; order checks
• Generate quarterly tax reports
• Generate W-2's
• Work with the district to process retirement incentive payments
• Back-up all aspects of ERS/TRS: Prepare monthly/annual reports; verify prior years' service
• Working with district's flexible spending program plans
• Create and distribute payroll schedule to districts
• Assist with salary projections for negotiations
• Work with district's third party 403(b) plans
• Annual fiscal roll-over
• Work with multiple district's payroll
• Perform other duties as assigned

This is a competitive Civil Service position. The selected employee must possess this title or be among the top three of a current, binding Civil Service list for the title or if no binding Civil Service list, be in the top three after taking the required Civil Service exam for the title.

• Payroll experience preferred

• Graduation from a regionally accredited college or university or one accredited by the New York State Board of Regents to grant degrees with an Associate Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field and two (2) years of Payroll experience; or
• Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma and completion of a business certificate program that includes coursework in accounting and four (4) years of Payroll experience

Salary: Per support Staff Association contract. Package includes a comprehensive benefits package.