Description
Summary
The Senior Payroll Technician plays a crucial role in ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time. This position is responsible for managing all payroll functions, from calculating employee paychecks and withholding taxes to maintaining accurate payroll records. As a mentor to the Payroll Technician, the Senior Payroll Technician also conducts research on variances and complex payroll issues, and completes necessary reporting.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead salary, commission, and hourly payrolls on monthly and semi-monthly cycles using the UKG Pro system.
• Maintain the UKG Timekeeping system by ensuring all associates are correctly set up.
• Respond to payroll questions and requests from employees and business units promptly.
• Run the interface weekly and upload it to UKG Pro for further processing.
• Balance input to output, adjusting timesheets or PTO accruals as necessary.
• Maintain employee payroll records, including earnings, deductions, garnishments, and tax documentation.
• Researches and resolves monthly payroll variances with general accounting.
• Balance multi-company payroll for quarterly and annual reporting.
• Responsible for year-end closing and timely distribution of W-2 forms.
Qualifications
• Familiarity with financial planning and analysis, accounting, and reporting.
• Ability to identify and affect appropriate risk and control mechanisms.
• Understanding of economic, accounting, and payroll principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
• General knowledge of laws and government regulations with the ability to research and verify that the company complies.
• General knowledge and experience in filing federal, state, and local payroll tax returns.
Education and Experience
• Minimum Required: High School Diploma or a combination of work experience and education.
• Minimum Required: 6+ years of experience processing multi-state payroll.
Licenses and Credentials
• Minimum Required: None.
Systems and Technology
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Experience with UKG and Kronos is preferred.
Disclaimer
NOTE: Job descriptions are intended to be accurate reflections of those principal job elements essential for making fair pay decisions about jobs. Nothing in this job description restricts management right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
About Stifel
Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients' money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let's talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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