Payroll Administrator

Role Mission: The payroll adminitrator executes payroll for a segment of IDEA staff members. The payroll administrator collaborates with the HRIS Adminitrators to ensure staff are set up in Skyward by the payroll deadline and analyzes payroll data to ensure accurate and timely payroll processes. In addition, the payroll administrator provides excellent customer service to employees.

Responsibilities:

Accountabilities

1

Process Payrolls with 99.5% accuracy

• Work with HRIS team to ensure all new hires and changes are documented in payroll binders

• Utilize advanced knowledge of excel to audit current payroll against previous payroll

• Perform monthly audits of Skyward to check for errors or discrepancies.

• Maintain all extra duty and OT pay codes

• Ensure all account codes changes are maintained in Skyward per the accounting and budget team

• Submit accounting adjustments to accounting team when necessary

2

Process all exits for staff within 48 hours of receipt of ticket

• Work with HRIS team to ensure all exits are reported from campuses/departments timely.

3

Decrease late timesheet submission by 5% to ensure staff are paid timely and accurately

• Ensure all timesheets are submitted by managers by the deadline

• Proactively reach out to mangers to train on timesheet submission policies and practices

• Create a shout out section on the HUB for managers who submit timesheets on time

4

Live and emulate the Core Values of IDEA on a daily basis

• Believes and is committed to our mission: that all students are capable of getting to and through college

• Is driven by outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them

• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly

• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change

• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization

• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes

• Embodies IDEA's core values

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 2-5 years of payroll experience preferred
• Licenses or Certifications (if applicable):
• Knowledge and Skills:
• Advanced to expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of Wage and Hour Law
• Proficiency skills in keyboarding and file maintenance required.
• Ability to interpret and disseminate information to individuals and groups
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to perform under immense pressure
• Ability to learn software programs and system processes with ease
• Possess team oriented and "no excuses" attitude
• Have strong work ethic with personal drive for success exemplifying "whatever it takes" attitude.

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.