Guardian - Bethlehem, PA
posted 3 months ago
As a Payroll Specialist at Guardian, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that all payroll administration and accounting processes are evaluated for efficiency and accuracy. Your primary responsibility will be to maintain critical payroll controls and procedures, developing and enforcing standards to guarantee the timely processing of payroll. This includes both manual and automated inputs to the payroll system, as well as managing outputs to other systems. You will prepare payment requests for third-party payroll liabilities, excluding taxes, and execute pre-and post-processing audits to validate payroll accuracy. Any necessary adjustments will be made promptly to ensure that employees and key stakeholders experience an error-free payroll process. In this role, you will also serve as the Tier 3 authority for payroll matters referred by the HR Shared Services Center team (MyHR), ensuring that all inquiries and cases are resolved quickly while providing superior customer service. You will handle various payrolls for active corporate employees, retirees, and those with disabilities, which includes pre-and post-verifications, balancing and reconciliations, general ledger postings, journal entries, and reporting. Maintaining a wide variety of payroll information, files, and records in both written and electronic formats will be essential for providing an up-to-date reference and audit trail for compliance purposes.