Coordinator Payroll
Job Description
- Job code: 009835
- Pay grade: E
- Pay type: Nonexempt/hourly
General summary
Performs advanced technical and analytical work supporting enterprise payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing. Administers key payroll systems, resolves complex payroll and system issues, analyzes payroll data and configurations, reconciles liabilities, and leads system enhancements. Provides guidance and training to stakeholders while independently interpreting regulatory, contractual, and policy requirements.
Major duties
- Processes payroll for multiple employee groups, ensuring compliance with University policies, collective bargaining agreements, and applicable regulations.
- Reviews and reconciles complex payroll transactions, analyzes and resolves payroll and timekeeping issues.
- Maintains payroll earnings, deduction, and tax tables; coordinates payroll schedules with campus departments; and supports year-end processing and paycard administration.
- Provides expert payroll guidance to departments on policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements. Develops and maintains training materials and documentation, delivers payroll and timekeeping training, and serves as a resource for complex payroll inquiries.
- Serves as administrator for the University’s timekeeping system, managing security, user access, configurations, and workflows to support accurate payroll and workforce data.
- Provides advanced troubleshooting for integrated payroll and timekeeping systems, supports testing for system upgrades and enhancements, and participates in system implementations and process improvement initiatives.
- Validates retirement plan tax table limits to ensure employee contributions comply with annual federal and state thresholds.
- Maintains payroll bank reconciliations by researching variances and implementing corrective actions to ensure financial accuracy and integrity.
- Reconciles payroll liability, including city tax and union dues accounts, by identifying discrepancies, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting and remittance.
Minimum qualifications
Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.
Required education
- Associate's degree, or two years' college coursework in a related field from an accredited institution.
Required experience
- Three year's relevant experience.
- Advanced skills with office software.
- Ability to manage and protect confidential and sensitive data.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Effective written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Required other
- Ability to work irregular shifts and extended hours, including evenings and weekends.
Physical requirements
Office or other indoor work with minimal physical demands such as occasionally lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds.
Working conditions
Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.
Revised: 2026-08-28
This description indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees in the above job. It is not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.