Payroll Clerk

Compile and record employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions, or prepare paychecks.

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Payroll Assistant; Payroll Clerk; Payroll Coordinator; Payroll Representative; Payroll Specialist; Payroll Technician; Personnel Assistant; Personnel Technician; Timekeeper

Tasks

• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
• Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
• Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
• Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
• Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
• Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
• Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
• Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
• Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.
• Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
• Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.
• Complete time sheets showing employees' arrival and departure times.
• Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions.
• Conduct verifications of employment.

Knowledge

• Administrative
• Mathematics
• English Language
• Economics and Accounting
• Personnel and Human Resources
• Administration and Management
• Customer and Personal Service
• Computers and Electronics

Skills

• Reading Comprehension
• Active Listening
• Mathematics
• Writing
• Speaking
• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring

Abilities

• Oral Comprehension
• Written Comprehension
• Written Expression
• Near Vision
• Oral Expression
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Information Ordering
• Number Facility
• Problem Sensitivity
• Deductive Reasoning
• Inductive Reasoning
• Selective Attention
• Speech Recognition
• Speech Clarity