Payroll Coordinator or Payroll Coordinator Senior

Payroll Coordinator or Payroll Coordinator Senior

Requisition : req
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Employment Type: Unclassified Regular Full-Time (URF)

Division: Employee Payroll & Time Admin

Compensation: Dependent on qualifications

Job Closing: August 10, 2026 5:00pm CT

Location: TRS Headquarters Building 1
4655 Mueller Boulevard
Austin, Texas, 78723
United States

Service, Respect, and Connection are core to the individual and collective TRS experience. We know that great service rests on a foundation of relationships that connect us all to an empowering and rewarding career. At TRS, we’re inspired by our community who bring authenticity and commitment to our mission to improve the retirement security of public education employees and retirees throughout Texas.

As a group of achievers, we tap collaboration and innovation to raise the bar in performance, administering and counseling pensions and healthcare benefits to ensure certainty for the future of our members. We invite you to join us, where both personal and career growth are respected and where you can make a difference in our members’ lives every day.

The Payroll Coordinator or Payroll Coordinator Senior processes the TRS domestic employee payrolls. The incumbent will process and reconcile automatic and manual payrolls, and provide assistance and support for payroll and leave related issues. The incumbent will proactively work with the Employee Payroll Team, Finance staff and agency employees

Payroll Coordinator: $62,113 - $77,640

Payroll Coordinator Senior: $73,790 - $92,237

• Administers and processes designated automated and manual domestic employee payrolls, including regular, lump sum, and hourly payrolls in compliance with applicable regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Provides support with the onboarding and offboarding of employees to/from the statewide payroll system. (Senior oversees)
• Assists with auditing of payrolls as well as entry of personnel actions including merits, promotions, reclassifications, equity adjustments, and data changes.
• Responsible for the auditing of payrolls as well as entry of personnel actions including merits, promotions, reclassifications, terminations, new hires, equity adjustments, and data changes. (Senior)
• Maintains appropriate payroll processing controls and assists with setups of deductions, garnishments, voluntary deductions, terminations, W-4’s, direct deposits, including returned monies and payment cancellations.
• Develops and maintains appropriate internal controls to ensure proper deductions and distribution of money collected for child support payments, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) levies, bankruptcies and other deductions.
• Assists with audit and reconciliation of leave without pay (LWOP), FMLA and return to work retiree detail that may be payroll impacting. (Senior oversees)
• Compiles payroll data and develops ad hoc reports in response to internal and external information requests.
• Assists with the required monthly and annual reconciliations, including ERS insurance, TRUST payroll reporting, and Texas Workforce Commission quarterly reporting in accordance with state and agency regulations, policies, and procedures. (Senior maintains)
• Communicates with agency staff, Comptroller’s Office, Employee Retirement System (ERS), Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) and the State Auditor’s Office (SAO) to research, explain, and/or resolve complex payroll or leave-related questions, issues, and problems.
• Assists employees with payroll and timekeeping related questions or issues in accordance with agency policies, statewide procedures, and State and Federal statutes and regulations.

• Provides guidance and technical assistance to new hires, managers, and other agency staff on employee payroll and leave regulations, policies, procedures, and systems.
• Assists with collecting and reporting payroll data for the annual SORM Risk Management Assessment Report. (Senior oversees)
• Completes and submits employee employment verification requests (Mortgage verifications, Workers Compensation etc.)
• Assists with monthly reconciliation of dual employment report.
• Reconciles monthly dual…