Payroll & Benefits Specialist

We take pride in our culture and strive to make Tuckahoe a place where people want to work, achieve excellence, remain curious and humble, and build lifelong relationships.

Title: Payroll and Benefits Specialist
Reports to: Payroll and Benefits Manager
FLSA: Non-Exempt

Position Summary
The Payroll and Benefits Specialist is a blended role to support centralized payroll and benefits administration for operating companies located across the country.

The individual in this role would work from the Tuckahoe Holdings corporate office.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Service as HR Help Desk dispatcher by responding to payroll, benefits, timekeeping and tax questions and prioritizing and escalating tickets to other team members as needed.

• Responsible for data entry, managing and approving workflows, and maintaining accurate payroll and benefit information in the HRIS System i.e.

new hires, life events, pay changes, terminations.

• Provide guidance and support to HR representatives, supervisors and other users in the HRIS System.

• Process multi-state payrolls as needed or delegated.

Serve as payroll processer back up for all operating companies.

• Complete employment verifications, unemployment claims, National Medical Support Notices and requests for information related to payroll, benefits, and other employment data.

• Manage completion of monthly benefit billing for all carriers as needed or delegated.

• Utilize expert level Excel capabilities to conduct regular benefit audits to ensure accuracy of data.

• Conduct payroll QC, audits, and clean up of any identified issues.

• Support annual Open Enrollment and off cycle initial Enrollment for acquired companies.

• Provide project and administrative support as needed to Payroll/HRIS Supervisor and Benefits Administrator.

• Partner with HRIS Analyst and other members of HR team on projects and providing customer support to operating companies.

• All other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or
ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Ability to work required Overtime as business needs dictate.

Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree from four-year college or university required.

Excel experience preferred.

Computer Skills
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have strong knowledge of MS products including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint etc.

Expert level Excel knowledge is preferred.

Travel Requirements
To perform this job successfully an individual should have the means and ability to travel on a flexible schedule.

Travel is anticipated to be approximately 10%, with occasional non-regional travel,...