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Under General supervision, oversees, evaluates, and supervises the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the City\'s payroll functions, systems, and staff. This position is responsible for analyzing payroll-related data. Researches and remains current on all Federal and State payroll tax law changes including retirement, benefits, and other applicable laws and regulations affecting payroll administration; recommends policy and procedure updates and changes as needed. Advises City departments on payroll policies and technical procedures. Responsible for all state and federal reporting, handling transactions as simple as data entry into a payroll system to more complex such as unemployment claim calculations.

Organize and schedule payroll work to meet standards for accuracy and deadlines.\ Process city-wide payroll and manual checks, review payroll runs, analyze error reports, and make adjustments to resolve problems, audit leave time to ensure adherence to leave policies.\ Plan, assign and review work of payroll staff, participate in the selection of staff; provide or coordinate staff training; work with employees to correct deficiencies.\ Ensure accurate payroll processing and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, or contracts such as MOU agreements. Conducts reviews and audits of payroll data to ensure accuracy and compliance. Resolves errors and employee complaints or issues related to payroll processing.\ Works with Human Resources (HR) department to ensure integrity of HR processes that impact payroll processing.\ Ensure effective internal controls over payroll functions. Develops and implements policies and procedures and works with departments and staff to ensure proper internal controls and preferred practices are in place. Performs reviews and analyses to identify and resolve deficiencies in operating procedures and internal controls.\ Process tax levies, child support orders and garnishments.\ Review time input from departments to ensure accuracy, completeness, and authorization.\ Calculate and ensure timely remittance of all applicable withholding liabilities for City employees including Federal, FICA, state tax, retirement, garnishments, etc. Reconciles the bi-weekly benefit payments between the payroll fund in Munis and the bank.