Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

• Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
• Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
• Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
• Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• 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.
• Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
• Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
• Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions.
• Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.
• Compile statistical reports, statements, and summaries related to pay and benefits accounts, and submit them to appropriate departments.
• Conduct verifications of employment.

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• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

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