Job Store Staffing is recruiting for a Payroll and Leave Specialist to work for a client in higher education located in Aurora, Colorado near 225 and I-70. The Payroll and Leave Specialist position will be a hybrid position with two days per week required in the office.
The Payroll and Leave Specialist will be a full-time position and a temporary-to-hire opportunity for the right candidate. The Payroll and Leave Specialist that will be responsible for providing procurement and contract support to our client. They will also navigate financial systems and administrative activities and handle a variety of business and procurement operations. The Finance and Accounting Professional will provide high quality and creative solutions and support at operational levels.
Pay: $26-34/hr
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm
Location: Hybrid/Aurora, 2 days in the office per week
Job duties:
Payroll/Compensation:
- Manages the monthly additional pay process and contract pay for clinical faculty.
- Additional clinical shifts
- Pay differentials
- Retention/bonus payments
- Contract payments
- Processes and monitors the monthly med/legal payments for faculty. Reconciles the balances for faculty.
- Update, track and audit funding distributions for faculty. Identifies inconsistencies and determines solutions.
- Completes Payroll Expense Transfers (PETs) as needed to ensure salary is allocated to appropriate accounts
- Reconciles clinical commitments for all faculty determining if clinical overages exist where payment is owed.
- Calculates and maintains clinical commitments for fellows ensuring appropriate payment for any overages.
Human Resources:
- Processes and communicates FAMLI leave calculations to all departmental staff working closely with the central leave team.
- Manages and directs monthly payroll process including:
- Monthly timecard process for University staff
- Monthly leave for staff and faculty
- Vacation upload for clinical faculty
- Bi-weekly and monthly timecards for hourly staff and PRN providers
- Monthly hours for PRN providers for monthly salary.
- FML and other leave hours, inputting in system and coordination with Emergency Medicine Human Resources to ensure record is properly updated.
Benefits: Our client offers an excellent benefits package including:
- Medical: Multiple plan options
- Dental: Multiple plan options
- Additional Insurance: Disability, Life, Vision
- Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay
- Paid Time Off: Accruals over the year
- Vacation Days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)
- Sick Days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)
- Holiday Days: 10/year
- Tuition Benefit
- ECO Pass: Reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in accounting, business administration, finance or other closely related field.
- Two (2) years of professional, progressively responsible experience in finance and/or payroll management.
- Experience working with Microsoft Office Products, especially Excel.
- A combination of education and related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.
Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a related field from an accredited college or university.
- Higher education accounting experience.
- Experience in data analytics.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to work with a diverse group and competing interests.
- Ability to tolerate a high degree of ambiguity yet work effectively to fulfill the mission, goals and objectives of the department.
- Strong problem-solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent time management and organization skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and balance the need to ask questions when needed.
- Ability to represent the University in a professional manner with tact and diplomacy.
- Ability to understand complex systems and guide other personnel with regard to their use.
- Demonstrate professionalism, strong work ethic and commitment to high standards.
- Strong financial management and ability to manage funds from a variety of sources.
- Must have a high degree of technical skills in procurement.
