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Payroll Specialist
Temporary : 3-6 Months
Comp : $23.00-$25.50 / hr DOE
Location : Modesto, CA
We have an immediate opening for a Payroll Specialist to assist a large client with a project. The Payroll Specialist supports the weekly processing of the company-wide payroll.
Responsibilities :
- Process wage garnishments, child support orders, and taxable adjustments, as assigned
- Responsible for payroll administration of Trust Funds; reports eligibility of Health & Welfare and pension hours to Trust Fund(s);
submits monthly reports and contribution payments
- Respond to payroll related inquiries made by external agencies (i.e. Child Support, Unemployment, etc.) for hours and / or wages
- Calculate and maintain all time off categories
- Maintain and update employee information in payroll system, including deductions and withholdings
- Perform audit and works closely with managers to ensure compliance with Time and Attendance system
- Enter data into payroll system; computes wages and deductions and posts to payroll records
- Process final check, including calculating final dues owed and ensuring various key elements are secured, (e.g. hours worked, benefit time owed, deductions, etc.
along with appropriate allocations
- Coordinate tax notices / issues with the tax filing service and / or taxing agencies to resolve the tax related issues
- Enter employee legally required and voluntary deductions in payroll system
- Calculate and file bi-weekly Federal and State payroll taxes; sends report of payroll taxes to Accounting and Cash Management departments
- Perform other duties as assigned Qualifications :
- 3 Years Directly related experience
- Associates or Bachelors Degree preferred
- Knowledge of garnishment / child support processing
- Knowledge of tax deposit requirements; demonstrated knowledge in calculation of gross payroll to net payroll and working with a variety of deduction and pay codes
- Ability to work with confidential information
- Intermediate Excel & Word
- Skilled and Proficient 10-key by touch
Last updated : 2024-04-24
Job Summary
Full Time
$63k-79k (estimate)
04/25/2024
07/23/2024
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