Payroll Jobs
Job description for Payroll clerks
Payroll clerks are responsible for compiling and posting employee time and payroll data. Duties of a payroll include:
- Computing employees time worked, production and commission
- Computing and posting wages and deductions and preparing paychecks
- Reviewing time-sheets, work charts, wage computation and other data in order to detect and correct payroll discrepancies
- Record employee information , such as exemptions, transfers and resignations in order to maintain and update payroll records
- Complete, verify and process forms for administration of benefits such as pension plans, unemployment funds and medical insurance
In addition to the above tasks, payroll clerks need to remain abreast of changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll procedure.
Skill requirements for Payroll clerks
If you want to become a payroll clerk then it is imperative you have a solid grounding in clerical procedures, payroll processing and payroll systems – word processor, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures. Knowledge of business and management principles is a must. Strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources are all skills that payroll clerks call upon at some point in their careers.