Payroll Clerk
Administration

Salary: TBD (Commensurate with Experience)

Duties:    Under direct supervision, does routine clerical work relating to the review, verification, and preparation of payroll or personnel records; may keep time and work records; does other related duties as required.

Examples of work:

• Reviews and checks payroll or personnel records, statements, documents, certificates, or time and attendance records.
• Prepares regular, supplemental, and overtime payrolls, adds or deletes employees as required.
• Makes appropriate charges such as union deductions, taxes, charities, and pension.
• May process forms such as pension membership applications, beneficiary changes, retirement, and loan applications, as well as health insurance applications and changes.
• Completes unemployment requests for wage and separation information.
• Computes overtime, emergency rates, and leaves of absence requiring application of relevant rules and regulations concerning salary increments, bonuses, and authorized deductions.
• Receives regular and supplemental paychecks from centralized payroll and separates by payroll and region prior to distribution.
• Computes the less-difficult pay changes where the arithmetic computations and examination of basic authorization documents on which the changes are well covered by established rules, regulations, and instructions.
• May keep a daily record showing employee's arrival time to and departure from work.
• Computes withholding taxes.
• Prepares reports of absences and vacations.
• Refers errors and irregularities to superiors.
• Maintains records and files where selection and classifications of data does not require difficult decisions and where procedures are routinized.
• May assist employees in completing various payroll forms.
• Maintains confidential records and files.
• Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.

Knowledge, Skills, and abilities:

• Knowledge of office methods, practices, routines, and equipment.
• Ability to interpret and apply relevant rules and regulations concerning salary increments, bonuses, and authorized deductions.
• Ability to comprehend, interprets, and applies rules and regulations in accord with established procedures and policies of the unit.
• Ability to accurately prepare detailed, technical, and confidential payroll forms and documents.
• Ability to understand, remember, and carry out oral and written directions.
• Ability to make accurate arithmetic calculations quickly and accurately.
• Ability to learn from oral and written explanations or from demonstration.
• Ability to maintain confidential records and files.
• Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.

Hours:             35 hours per week. Typical work shift is Monday through Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm.

Note:               Offers of employment for this title are contingent upon successful completion of physical fitness testing that includes drug screenings and criminal background checks. 

Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and the names of three professional references to:

 Wheeler Fazenbaker, Department of Personnel

HR@co.cumberland.nj.us or fax to 856-453-0361

Application Deadline:  December 9, 2021

The County of Cumberland is an Equal Opportunity Employer Striving for Diversity in the Workplace.