Payroll Supervisor

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About Seattle Pacific University:

Founded in 1891, Seattle Pacific University has a long and distinguished history in Christian higher education. Located just minutes from downtown Seattle, SPU seeks to be a premier Christian University fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community. Seattle Pacific University seeks applicants committed to its Christian mission.

Diversity Statement

As part of our mission of cultural engagement, SPU is committed to building an excellent and diverse staff and faculty. Diversity is an ethos that is inseparable from our Christian faith. At SPU, we recognize diversity as a basic feature of God's creation and a core theme of the gospel. At the heart of our mission-centered commitment to becoming a more diverse community is a desire to represent the breadth of God's kingdom more fully.

We strive to become a workplace of choice and to recruit, develop, and retain faculty and staff who can embrace, value, and engage differences with humility and care. We invite you to join us on our journey by starting a career at SPU! Learn more about SPU's commitment to diversity

and opportunities

for our employees to deepen their capacity to serve our increasingly diverse student body.

Seattle Pacific University provides reasonable accommodation to applicants. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the application or hiring process please contact the Human Resources Department at (206)281-2809, or email hr@spu.edu

. Notification must be given at least five (5) working days before the accommodation is needed.

Job Description:

General Summary:

The Payroll Supervisor serves as the University's technical Payroll leader by completing timely, accurate, and compliant payrolls for staff and student workers. This position is responsible for all aspects of payroll including providing direction and support to payroll and accounting staff, developing, and implementing payroll processes and internal controls, and training and backfilling payroll staff. The Payroll Supervisor exemplifies an ethic of excellent service to staff and students. In collaboration with Human Resources and the Controller's Office, the Payroll Supervisor communicates important payroll information and maintains confidentiality of sensitive information. Working collaboratively across the University, the Payroll Supervisor works closely with Human Resources, student financial operations, and finance to achieve its objectives. The Payroll Supervisory models the University's mission and values.

Job Duties:

Supervises the Payroll staff by hiring mentoring, coaching, training, developing, and supporting Payroll staff and student workers.

Serves as the payroll system's subject matter expert by maintaining system pay configurations and conducting user acceptance tests of payroll system updates and upgrades.

Manages faculty, staff, and student worker payroll processes by preparing or reviewing information, inputting, or reviewing payroll and benefit data, and loading timesheets to support the processing of payroll.

Analyzes payroll, ensuring discrepancies are researched and resolved prior to finalizing payroll.

Provides excellent customer service, research and resolution, timely and cordial responses that reinforce processes to all staff and student workers.

Implements and enforces internal controls for payroll processes, including evaluating and reviewing SOC 2 internal controls reports.

Maintains, interprets, and implements in processes and systems changes to payroll laws, regulations, and payroll taxes, and garnishment orders.

Oversees the outsourced payroll tax service provider processes and relationship ensuring timely, complete, compliant, and accurate tax payments and filings.

Maintains payroll processes, procedures, and workflow diagrams. Maintains an ethic of continuous process improvement by recommending and implementing improvements to current payroll policies, procedures, and tools.

Prepares all payroll and benefit related general ledger journal entries and supports research and resolution of reconciling differences.

Provides backup to other Payroll Department staff during busy workload periods, vacations, and illnesses.

Prepares routine and ad hoc schedules, analyses, and reports. Prepares and supports audits and tax returns, including the annual financial statement audit, tax returns, and data requests.

Requirements:

Associate degree or college courses in Accounting or Business. Five years of payroll experience can be substituted for education.

Six to eight years work experience effectively processing multiple monthly payrolls and complying with benefit, federal and state payroll taxes and regulations. Two or more years of supervisory experience required.

Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) strongly preferred

Hybrid remote role. Must reside in Washington state.

Strong customer service abilities with a passion for paying people. Ability to meet critical deadlines and work independently as well as collaboratively. A natural problem-solver.

General understanding of accounting and finance. Demonstrated ability to interpret policies and regulations. Good organizational and communication (written and verbal) skills. Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external constituencies.

Ability to work on an enterprise-wide payroll system and with outside payroll tax service providers. Ability to work with a variety of cloud-based software tools. Intermediate Excel and experience using query tools and report writers.

Advanced Excel and Access skills, SQL exposure and experience with Banner ERP system, a plus.

Additional Information:

Position will remain open until filled.

Salary: $75,000 annually

This is a full time position with excellent benefits. SPU pays the employee premium for medical, dental, and vision insurance. SPU makes contributions to an employee HSA account and to a retirement account after one year of eligibility in the plan. Tuition discount program available for the employee and qualified immediate family members.

Application Instructions:

Please submit a cover letter and resume along with the online application.

All SPU employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to submit documentary proof of vaccination unless an exception applies. For more information, see SPU's Vaccination Requirements FAQ's web page

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Seattle Pacific University
Website : http://www.spu.edu