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The Payroll Specialist is responsible for processing the biweekly payroll for hourly employees and supporting payroll operations through accurate data management, benefits-related updates, and reporting. This role plays a critical part in ensuring employee pay accuracy and compliance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Process biweekly hourly payroll accurately and on schedule, ensuring thorough review of earnings, deductions, and taxes, with supporting documentation and stakeholder communication as needed
- Serve as the first point of contact for payroll-related inquiries, including UKG, Workforce Ready, timesheets, paychecks, and deductions, reviewing and responding to questions regarding biweekly payroll
- Route out-of-scope inquiries to the appropriate person and escalate complex or unresolved payroll matters to the Payroll Manager
- Manage log of payroll changes and communications related to biweekly payroll to streamline reviews and ensure record-keeping accuracy
- Review new hire setups and employee changes entered by HR for biweekly employees, and communicate required corrections back to HR for resolution
- Manage and maintain employee profiles and timesheets in Workforce Ready (WFR)
- Process off-cycle payroll adjustments for biweekly employees
- Maintain recurring payroll and benefits reports in support of regular operational review
- Process employee terminations in UKG Pro
- Set up court-ordered wage garnishments in UKG Pro for payroll services to execute
- Assist with audits and payroll reconciliations as required
- Maintain working knowledge of monthly payroll processing and serve as backup to the Payroll Manager as needed
- Perform other duties as assigned
Education
High school diploma or equivalent required; Associate degree or higher in a related field preferred but not required
Experience
- 2-4 years of payroll processing experience
- Experience with payroll software (Workday, UKG, Workforce, Kronos)
- Prior experience in a high-volume payroll environment preferred
About Lipscomb University
Lipscomb University is a Christian institution committed to creating students whose academic excellence, faith and practice, and community service reflect our ideals of global citizenship. With more than 4,600 students and a 10-year growth rate of 85 percent, Lipscomb is a dynamic university offering students a choice of eight bachelor's degrees in 136 majors, 24 master's degrees in 70 fields of study, four education specialist degrees and three doctoral degrees. In addition to Lipscomb's residential campus in the Green Hills area of Nashville, Tennessee, there are five satellite locations and numerous online programs. U.S. News & World Report, which named Lipscomb University as an up-and-coming university and one of the most innovative universities in the South, ranked Lipscomb for the first time in school history as a national university in the annual "2017 America's Guide to Colleges." In 2016 the Carnegie Foundation classified Lipscomb as a doctoral university, placing it among 7 percent of schools nationwide. At the heart of Lipscomb University are more than 940 full-time faculty and staff who are committed to creating a lasting impact beyond the campus, serving the good of humanity to the glory of God. As you learn more about Lipscomb, we hope you find it to be a place that is joyfully and energetically committed to God and a place where you truly want to share and invest your talents and skills.