Payroll Officer

Bring your payroll expertise to a role that supports accurate, compliant, and reliable services for the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) has an opening for a Payroll Officer 1 in the Payroll Unit in Rocky Hill.

This position is full-time on first shift, Monday to Friday, from 7:30 AM until 4:00 PM.

• Comprehensive state employee benefits
• Access the State Employee Benefits Overview page to explore available options
• Professional growth and career development opportunities
• A commitment to promoting a healthy work/life balance

• Reviews payroll for accuracy including shift differentials, increases, retirement calculations and workers’ compensation
• Prepares or closely supervises complex payroll tasks such as retroactive payments and garnishments
• Oversees reconciliation of payroll deductions and reviews coding of payroll expenditures
• Supervises maintenance of time records and issuance of leave balances
• Manages control and distribution of paychecks and responds to employee payroll questions
• Compiles payroll expenditure data to support budget preparation
• Provides information and processes paperwork related to employee fringe benefits
• Performs related duties as required

For over 140 years, the Connecticut DVA has been caring for its veterans and their dependents. As a department, we are a team of dedicated individuals who support our veterans, and we believe in 'Serving Those Who Served.'

In a state agency, facility or institution this class is accountable for supervising a small payroll operation or assisting in supervising a moderate to large size payroll operation.

• Schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work of staff;
• Provides staff training and assistance;
• Conducts performance evaluations;
• Determines priorities and plans unit work;
• Establishes and maintains unit procedures;
• Develops or makes recommendations on development of policies and standards;
• Acts as liaison with other operating units, agencies and outside officials regarding unit policies and procedures;
• Prepares reports and correspondence;
• Reviews accuracy of payroll including shift differential payments, annual increases, collective bargaining increases, retirement calculations, workers compensation benefits and revisions for attachments;
• Prepares or closely supervises more complex portions of a payroll such as retroactive payments or garnishments;
• Supervises reconciliation of payroll deductions and coding of payroll expenditures;
• Supervises maintenance of time records including issuing semi-annual leave balances;
• Supervises control and distribution of paychecks;
• Answers employees questions relating to payroll;
• May compile payroll expenditure data for budget preparation;
• May provide information and process paperwork regarding employee fringe benefits;
• Performs related duties as required.

• Considerable knowledge of
• relevant agency policies and procedures;
• and ability to apply relevant state and federal laws, statutes and regulations;
• Knowledge of
• and ability to apply state payroll policies and procedures;
• uses of office machinery used in accounting work;
• governmental accounting as it applies to payroll;
• Considerable
• interpersonal skills;
• oral communication skills;
• skill in performing arithmetical computations;
• Supervisory ability.

Five (5) years of experience in complex clerical work in accounting or payroll.

Two (2) years of the General Experience must have had payroll preparation as the principal responsibility.

NOTE:

For state employees this experience is interpreted at…