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The Payroll Administrator serves a major role in all Payroll functions. Responsibility for processing, review and data entry in both ADP and Meditech systems. Processing and review of weekly, bi-weekly and out-of-cycle payroll for both Lawrence General Hospital and its affiliated entities.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Adhere to Fiscal Services department goals and objectives consistent with the Hospital's strategic and operating plans.
• Perform all activities necessary to process multiple weekly and biweekly payrolls on a timely basis to ensure employees are paid correctly.
• Perform reviews of data being processed on a weekly basis.
• Print checks for all applicable employees.
• Prepare manual checks and generate required input data, including application of knowledge of tax withholding regulations to determine what taxes to withhold under a variety of situations.
• Prepare weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly withholding packages including check and ACH debit requests to submit to Payroll Manager for review.
• Other duties and special projects as assigned by the Payroll Manager.
• Work with Human Resources to ensure accurate direct deposit updates.
• Daily monitoring and coordination of the payroll inbox.
• Responsible for handling termination payments, retro payments, levy's and other special withholdings.
• Responsible for AD Hoc reporting as needed (Examples FTE reporting, audit requests, various salary reports).

EDUCATION AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Required:

• 5 + years in payroll processing
• High school diploma.
• Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-spaced environment that requires strong typing skills/speed
• Comfortable communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.

Preferred:

• Experience working in ADP and/or Meditech
• Experience working in a healthcare organization