Payroll Coordinator

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Full Time FY Full-Time North Andover, MA, US

Payroll Coordinator

PCN 689

Position Overview

Responsible for electronic processing of Student, Adjunct and Non-Exempt payroll and payroll reporting for Merrimack College. Assist and provide back up to the Director of Payroll Services. Assist the Director of Payroll Services with special projects as assigned.

Primary Responsibilities:

Administer the college’s online Time & Attendance system, ensuring accurate employee time entry, supervisor approvals and timely submission of payroll data. Monitor workflow, identify outstanding approvals, resolve exceptions, and provide guidance to supervisors and employees regarding timekeeping policies and procedures.

Independently coordinate and oversee the end-to-end processing of approximately 600 bi-weekly student employees.

Compile necessary data, verify for accuracy, and transmit timely to ADP the payroll for approximately 600 bi-weekly student employees. Accountable for collecting student time sheets from supervisors and performing follow up, reconciling hours and rates of pay for all student employees. Enter W4, direct deposit, and accrual coding into the ADP web based system.

Compile necessary data, verify for accuracy, and transmit timely to ADP the bi-weekly non-exempt payroll for approximately 150 employees. Accountable for collecting time sheets from staff and ensuring that the hours submitted are recorded correctly. Enter W4, direct deposit, and accrual coding into the ADP web based system when online onboarding does not apply. Collaborate with the Director of Payroll Services to resolve any exceptions and collaborate with Human Resources to process any adjustments to benefits.

Maintain accrual balances report and provide managers with employee balances as requested.

Compile necessary data, verify for accuracy, and transmit monthly to ADP the Adjunct Faculty payroll for approximately 300 employees. Accountable for collecting Adjunct spreadsheets from the Provost Office. Enter W4, direct deposit and accrual information into the ADP web based system when online onboarding does not apply to new hire.

Collaborate with the Student Employment Office to coordinate the timely onboarding of student employees into the payroll system. Audit and track Tax Treaty forms and YTD earnings to ensure accuracy and compliance. Provide YTD tax treaty earnings to Bursar for 1042-S annual reporting.

Responsible for verifying and completing any paper tax and direct deposit documents submitted by students. Assist international students with completing the form 8233 (tax treaty exemption) if applicable (approximately 35-45 students). Audit and track YTD earnings to ensure that their earnings do not exceed their tax treaty limit. Provide YTD tax treaty earnings to Staff Accountant and Bursar for 1042-S reporting annually.

Work in conjunction with the Student Employment Center to ensure that new student workers are authorized to work and properly set up in ADP. Update and maintain a spreadsheet with all student payroll authorizations received to ensure proper department and rate of pay. Adjust earnings from Federal Work Study to College funds when assigned a different pay type by Financial Aid.

Send the Federal Work Study Earnings Report to Financial Aid after every Student payroll is processed.

Develop instructional materials for student employee timekeeping best practices each semester.

Retrieve payroll reports from ADP’s I-Reports module after each payroll and backup these reports on the payroll server. Provide Fiscal Affairs with copies of the Statistical…