Payroll Administrator - Account Clerk Senior

Summary

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is a state agency providing essential transportation services and supporting the well-being of Minnesotans. The Payroll Administrator processes, audits, and reconciles Central Office payroll operations, employee business expenses, and labor distributions while researching, calculating, coding, tracking, and processing human resources and payroll transactions.

Responsibilities

• The position processes, audits, and reconciles all payroll operations/transactions for MnDOT’s Central Office
• The position also processes employee business expenses, audits, and reconciliations in a timely manner
• Other responsibilities include reviewing, analyzing, and reconciling payroll labor distributions and researching, calculating, coding, tracking, and processing various transactions for human resources and payroll

Skills

• Individuals must be legally authorized to work in the US at the start of employment
• Skills in analyzing, interpreting, reconciling, and preparing financial information, records, and reports; identify errors; and recommend solutions to procedural or other fiscal problems
• Skills in basic accounting procedures sufficient to complete forms and documents that comply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) standards, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and maintain accurate and complete financial records
• Ability to interpret and explain accounting and related fiscal policies, procedures, and practices to customers
• Skills in expense reporting sufficient to use a computerized accounting system such as SEMA4
• Ability to accurately input, verify, and edit electronic data
• Skill in using advanced spreadsheets features such as formula creation to manipulate and sort data
• Experience managing high-volume transactional workloads with deadlines and high accuracy
• Experience interpreting and applying bargaining agreements/plans, payroll policies, and internal control procedures to ensure payroll and fiscal processing compliance
• Experience supporting audit compliances and internal control reviews of fiscal operations

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Individuals must be legally authorized to work in the US at the start of employment
• Skills in analyzing, interpreting, reconciling, and preparing financial information, records, and reports; identify errors; and recommend solutions to procedural or other fiscal problems
• Skills in basic accounting procedures sufficient to complete forms and documents that comply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) standards, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and maintain accurate and complete financial records
• Ability to interpret and explain accounting and related fiscal policies, procedures, and practices to customers
• Skills in expense reporting sufficient to use a computerized accounting system such as SEMA4
• Ability to accurately input, verify, and edit electronic data
• Skill in using advanced spreadsheets features such as formula creation to manipulate and sort data

Nice to Haves

• Experience managing high-volume transactional workloads with deadlines and high accuracy
• Experience interpreting and applying bargaining agreements/plans, payroll policies, and internal control procedures to ensure payroll and fiscal processing compliance
• Experience supporting audit compliances and internal control reviews of fiscal operations

Benefits

• Telework full-time, a hybrid schedule, or work in the office, subject to a telework arrangement with the supervisor and applicable policy
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• 12 paid holidays each year
• Low-cost medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
• Fertility care, including IVF
• Diabetes care
• Dental and orthodontic care for adults and children
• 6 weeks paid leave for parents of newborn or newly adopted children
• Pension plan that provides income when you retire after working at least three years
• Employer paid life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Tax-free expense accounts for health, dental, and dependent care
• Resources that provide support and promote physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being
• Training, classes, and professional development
• Tuition reimbursement
• MnDOT Student Loan Reimbursement Program
• Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program; some positions may qualify
• Voluntary confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families with life challenges that may impact overall health, personal well-being, or job performance
• Employee Assistance Program support for mental health, relationship challenges, grief and loss, finances, and legal issues
• Daily Living/Convenience Services, including chore services, home repair, trip planning, and child/elder care