Payroll Associate

Maintain and process payroll records and reports for accounting of salary/wages due, accruals, deductions, garnishments, and other payroll functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Processes payroll for multi-state/multi-company payrolls
Maintain employee payroll deductions including garnishments and levies.
Process terminations per state requirements.
Respond to payroll questions and issues.
Compute wage and overtime payments, calculating and recording payroll deductions
Assists with questions and problems courteously and promptly.
Providing general administrative support such as preparing correspondence, forms and reports, processing confidential reports and documents.
Exercises individual judgment while dealing with potential or real troubles.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Be able to adhere to FJM core values: Integrity, Mutual Respect and Excellence.
Support FJM’s goal to build value to last.
Effective leadership skills
Strong problem-solving and time management skills
Process driven yet able to handle exceptions and successfully navigate through ambiguous situations.
Strong attention to detail.
Able to work in an ever changing environment
Must be a self-starter, taking initiative and be a strong member in a close proximity team environment.
Competent keyboard skills to produce accurate and well-presented reports
Able to present information in forms, tables and spreadsheets
Should be an effective communicator verbally as well as through writing skills
Should be committed to diversity and equality culture
Ability to operate under immense pressure
Must have advanced skills in Microsoft Excel
Must be able to effectively communicate with people in potentially stressful situations.
Ability to consistently meet daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.
Must have in depth knowledge of and be able to correctly apply payroll tax law.
Understanding of child support and other wage withholdings.
Experience processing payroll for multi-state company.
Ability to perform (RCA) root cause analysis of issues to find ways to improve processes and eliminate defects.

Education and Experience:

UKG experience preferred.
Associate’s degree preferred.

5+ years of payroll experience required.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.

The employee is frequently required to stand and walk.

The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The employee is occasionally exposed to the risk of ele...