Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk Job Description
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk Job Profile and Description
With most companies using a non-integrated timekeeping and payroll system, the job of the Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk remains an indispensable service to manually account for the physical presence of its workers for a proper administration of payroll. They are tasked with compiling timecards containing Bundy clock time stamps. These are use to create detailed attendance report for each worker as input to a remote payroll system where payroll data is processed in time for release of current paychecks.
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk Duties and Responsibilities
- Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
- Process formalities for new employees and enter employee information to the payroll system.
- Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
- Documentation of employee information, such as exemptions, resignations, and transfers, to sustain and renew payroll records.
- Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
- Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.
- Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
- Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
- Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk Skills and Specifications
- Has high organizational skills to sort and handle timecards
- Has high computer literacy to use PC
- Has a good command of the English language, both verbal and written
- Has above average interpersonal skills to entertain concerns from workers
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk Education and Qualifications
A high school diploma or GED is basic to the position
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk Salary
The median hourly wage of Payroll and Timekeeping Clerk was $17.31 in 2009 or $36,000 annually. It can go up or down depending on the industry and the company workforce level.