Description
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.
- • Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
- • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
- • Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
- • Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
- • Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
- • 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 informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.
- • Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions.
- • Complete time sheets showing employees' arrival and departure times.
- • Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
- • Complete, verify, and process forms and documentation for administration of benefits, such as pension plans, and unemployment and medical insurance.
- • Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
- • Compile statistical reports, statements, and summaries related to pay and benefits accounts, and submit them to appropriate departments.
- • Coordinate special programs, such as United Way campaigns, that involve payroll deductions.
- • Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
- • Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.
- • Conduct verifications of employment.
- • Balance cash and payroll accounts.
- • Train employees on organizations' timekeeping systems.
- • Prepare and file payroll tax returns.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
