Overview:
You Matter Here! Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter!
Hours: Per Diem, Hybrid
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Is with the weekly payroll processing and distribution of employee paychecks so that employees receive pay on time.
- Maintains a thorough understanding of the Meditech and Kronos Payroll Systems to ensure proper coding of transactions.
- Maintains appropriate records of all employees to ensure payments are made on time and in accordance with established policies, procedures and controls.
- Verifies the accuracy and conformance to hospital policy of all changes to employee payroll records after receiving proper documentation from the Human Resources Department.
- Reviews and controls appropriate payments and accruals for sick, vacation, and holiday time to ensure that hours paid do not exceed those allowed by the hospital.
- Keeps the Accounting Manger informed on the status of assigned tasks, ongoing projects and any critical payroll issues so that he/she is aware of significant or unusual problems.
- Informs the Accounting Manager of recurring problems after attempts to resolve.
- Maintains accurate payroll records to ensure that reports tie to the payroll system and all items have the required approval.
- Reviews payroll reports produced on the Kronos System for accuracy.
- Maintains appropriate records of all employees hired or terminated any employee changes, and W-4s and M-4s for all employees.
- Assists with the bi-weekly taxes submission to the government, and annual filings of W-2s.
- Tracks 403B and 457 payments made to outside vendor for employee and employer contributions.
- Maintains a thorough understanding of the Meditech Accounts Payable module and all necessary reports to complete the Accounts Payable function.
- Processes employee wage/employment verification forms in a timely manner.
Statement of Other Duties:
This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.
Functional Demands
Physical Requirements: Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction), and handles (seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or working with hands).
Qualifications:
Job Requirements
Minimum Education
- Associates Degree in Accounting (preferred)
Minimum Work Experience
- Five to Seven years business office experience; two or three directly related to payroll (preferred)
Required Skills
- Numerical ability required to mentally perform rapid and accurate arithmetic computations
- Must maintain confidentiality.
- Must be able to decollate reports and prepare them for distribution to users, both internal to the Hospital and external.
- Must have a fairly high level of telephone and face to face verbal and listening skills in order to communicate effectively with co-workers, supervisors, managers, and outside agencies.