State of South Carolina - Columbia, SC
posted 3 months ago
The Payroll Manager is responsible for managing, coordinating, and administering the preparation of the agency's semi-monthly payroll process, overseeing time and leave administration, and ensuring the accuracy of earnings and labor distribution data. This role involves making necessary adjustments and corrections to payroll, ensuring the collection, research, and auditing of all activities and documentation associated with the proper processing of employee compensation and the distribution of expenditures. The Payroll Manager supervises the reconciliation of payroll and deduction transactions with the Comptroller General's Office and other related sources to ensure accurate reporting of employee pay and deductions. In addition to payroll processing, the Payroll Manager establishes internal checks to ensure that actions impacting payroll and deductions are updated correctly in the South Carolina Enterprise Information System (SCEIS). The role requires close collaboration with peers in Human Resources, Finance, and Information Technology to process changes and corrections to the payroll system. The Payroll Manager also oversees the maintenance of all employee payroll, time, and leave records in the SCEIS time and payroll modules, verifying and documenting payroll transactions, and executing payroll simulations to ensure accuracy. The position also involves providing oversight and supervision to payroll staff, ensuring the accurate and timely collection, implementation, execution, reconciliation, and funding of employee premiums with the Public Employee Benefit Authority (PEBA). The Payroll Manager prepares and certifies final retirement wages and contributions for PEBA and manages the timely preparation and submission of correspondence, documents, and financial statements to the Comptroller General's Office, State Treasurer's Office, and PEBA. This role requires managing, auditing, and researching entries of the general ledger accounts related to the agency's payroll wages and fringe amounts, as well as monitoring work processes and implementing management policies and initiatives. The Payroll Manager is also responsible for supervising staff, preparing performance evaluations, coaching, counseling, and training employees, and promoting teamwork within the organization.