Position Summary:

The Payroll Administrator is responsible for assisting in the management and administration of the Company’s overall payroll function.

Responsibilities:

• Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies
• Process multi-state weekly payroll, including check printing, reconciliation and distribution
• Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions
• Process employment verifications, garnishments, IRS levies, and other miscellaneous compliance issues
• Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system
• Produce weekly labor reports and other required reports as requested
• Payroll tax deposits and reconciliations
• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records
• Compute wages and deductions and enter data into financial reporting software
Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations to maintain and update payroll records

Qualifications:

• Minimum three years’ experience working with an in-house, manual payroll system or accounting software package.
• Accounting Degree a plus but not required.
• Experience with Viewpoint software, the construction industry and prevailing wage reporting is a plus.
• High proficiency in Excel with working experience on pivot tables, queries and V-lookups a must.
Conversational Spanish skills a plus.

Necessary Attributes:

• Must possess the ability to adapt to different personalities and management styles.
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage a team in an efficient and effective manner.
• Self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Reliance on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Dedicated and hard working.
• Possess strong leadership qualities.
• Above average organizational skills.
• Strong commitment to success of all.
• Possess a strong work ethic.
• Demonstrate the upmost professionalism in how you represent yourself.
• Show quality in everything you do.
Lead with integrity while producing high quality work.

The Middlesex Corporation is an “Equal Opportunity Employer—Minorities, Females, Veterans and Disabled Persons”