Payroll Officer

The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction (DOC) seeks to fill two (2) Payroll Officer 1 positions within its Fiscal Services Payroll team.

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This position is full-time, following a first shift schedule, 40 hours a week, and scheduled Monday - Friday with the potential for telework.

These positions support payroll and benefits administration for approximately 6,000 employees across the agency’s 24/7 operations.

Responsibilities include payroll processing, benefits, accruals, retirement calculations, and implementation of payroll provisions of stipulated agreements.

The roles include supervising 4–5 payroll clerks, coordinating audits, collaborating with facility administration, and supporting payroll process improvements.

These positions use CORE, ATLAS, and UKG/Kronos systems and participate in initiatives to improve payroll automation.

The Connecticut Department of Correction is a diverse agency with a wide variety of employees from Correction Officers, to Educators, to Managers and Skilled Professionals. We value differences that make us stronger as a team and support our mission statement.

The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The agency operates 13 correctional facilities. It has its headquarters in Wethersfield. The DOC protects public safety by ensuring offenders serve their sentences of imprisonments in facilities that are safe, human, and provide re-entry programming.

The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction is a unified system; all sentenced and un-sentenced offenders are supervised by the DOC. The Department also provides supervision for offenders on parole, community release, and other discretionary release programs.

The DOC shall strive to be a global leader in progressive correctional practices and partnered re-entry initiatives to support responsive evidence-based practices aligned to law-abiding and accountable behaviors. Safety and security shall be a priority component of this responsibility as it pertains to staff, victims, citizens and offenders.

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 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…