Payroll Clerk

Introduction

The State of Connecticut, Department of Motor Vehicles is now seeking a Payroll Clerk in its Fiscal Services Division in Wethersfield, CT!

• Professional growth and development opportunities
• A healthy work/life balance to all employees

• Full-time, 40 hours/week
• Monday-Friday
• 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
• Hybrid work opportunity
• Located in Wethersfield, CT

Join the DMV Fiscal Services Division, Payroll Unit as a self-motivated and detail-oriented Payroll Clerk, supporting one of the agency’s most vital operations. This position plays a key role in ensuring accurate payroll and benefit processing, maintaining compliance, and strengthening internal controls. It offers opportunities to apply critical thinking, audit payroll and benefit data, maintain organized documentation, and deliver reliable customer service in a fast-paced environment.

• Process accurate payroll and benefit transactions
• Review and reconcile payroll and benefit data
• Maintain organized, audit ready records
• Enter payroll updates (W 4s, direct deposits, deductions, retirement contributions)
• Use Excel and Word for payroll reporting and documentation
• Resolve payroll and benefit inquiries across DMV branches
• Communicate clearly and professionally with staff
• Provide strong customer service in a fast paced environment
• Participate in employee onboarding process

In a state agency this class is accountable for preparing and maintaining biweekly regular, overtime and supplemental payrolls for an assigned group of employees and independently performing various payroll support activities.

• Prepares biweekly regular, overtime, and supplemental payrolls;
• Reviews employee time cards and/or timesheets for accuracy and completeness and posts hours worked to master payroll cards;
• Reviews personnel and/or payroll change notices and posts changes and/or adjustments to master files, e.g. new hires, transfers, reclassifications, terminations, retirements, over payments and/or underpayments, wage increases, deduction changes (health insurance, union dues and/or fees, credit union payments, charitable contributions, bond or sheltered tax annuity payments, group life insurance payments, etc.);
• Calculates gross wages;
• Notes deductions on worksheets and deduction summary sheets;
• Prepares and balances prelists for Central Payroll (Office of State Comptroller), noting both salary and deduction data OR codes standard payroll action forms in conjunction with computerized payroll system;
• Prepares and totals various deduction worksheets, e.g., Credit Union, Medical and/or Insurance Providers, etc.;
• Prepares and submits summary sheets and transmittal certificates OR detailed analysis of expenditure reports and expenditure certificates to Central Payroll;
• Verifies check register and printouts from Central Payroll against worksheets and records;
• Performs various clerical accounting functions such as calculating balances and posting charges to expenditure accounts;
• Prepares supplemental payrolls such as longevity payments, vacation pay, promotional adjustments, etc.;
• Calculates and processes retroactive payments, collective bargaining increases and annual increments;
• Performs various clerical accounting functions such as calculating balances and posting charges to expenditure accounts;
• Verifies provider checks issued by Office of State Comptroller against own records;
• Verifies providers' bills in same manner;
• Keeps abreast of collective bargaining contract requirements and restrictions as related to payroll (dates for salary increases, overtime, shift differential and holiday pay restrictions, etc.);
• Responds to employee inquiries regarding paychecks and payroll practices and procedures;
• Maintains various records and files for payroll data and forms;
• May calculate workers compensation and/or retirement payments;
• May calculate and monitor payroll deductions for court ordered wage executions (garnishments);
• May consult division or facility supervisors regarding employee time recorded;
• Performs related duties as required.

Knowledge of payroll…