Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

Typical job duties performed with this occupation include:

TASK DUTIES
Balance cash and payroll accounts.
Train employees on organizations' timekeeping systems.
Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
Compile statistical reports, statements, and summaries related to pay and benefits accounts, and submit them to appropriate departments.
Complete time sheets showing employees' arrival and departure times.
Complete, verify, and process forms and documentation for administration of benefits, such as pension plans, and unemployment and medical insurance.
Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
Conduct verifications of employment.
Coordinate special programs, such as United Way campaigns, that involve payroll deductions.
Distribute and collect timecards each pay period.
Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.
Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees.
Post relevant work hours to client files to bill clients properly.
Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions.
Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.
Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
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*Note: Not all occupations will have a full list of Task Duties or associated programs

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Training for this occupational program or those in a similar family of programs can be located at the following postsecondary institutions in the State of Kansas. Please check with a program advisor at the postsecondary institution for more information on the particular focus of each program listed. Programs nearest the local area appear first. Click on the program to find more information.

INSTITUTION NAME	CITY	INSTITUTION TYPE	PROGRAM TITLE	AWARDS	HOURS
Manhattan Area Technical College	Manhattan	Public	BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - ACCOUNTING SUPPORT	One-year Technical Certificate - CERT	33
Johnson County Community College	Overland Park	Public	ACCOUNTING	Associate Degree - AAS	63
Johnson County Community College	Overland Park	Public	BOOKKEEPING ENTREPRENEURSHIP	One-year Technical Certificate - CERTE	31
Highland Community College	Highland	Public	ACCOUNTING	Associate Degree - AAS	63
Highland Community College	Highland	Public	ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST	One-year Technical Certificate - CERT	32
Neosho County Community College	Chanute	Public	ACCOUNTING	Associate Degree - AAS	64
Neosho County Community College	Chanute	Public	ACCOUNTING	One-year Technical Certificate - CERT	30
Neosho County Community College	Chanute	Public	ACCOUNTING	Two-year Technical Certificate - CERT	46
Butler Community College	El Dorado	Public	ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT	Associate Degree - AAS	60
Butler Community College	El Dorado	Public	ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT	One-year Technical Certificate - CERT	30
Wichita State University Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology	Wichita	Public	BUSINESS ADMIN-ACCOUNTING	One-year Technical Certificate - CERT	42
Hutchinson Community College	Hutchinson	Public	BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNOLOGY--ACCOUNTING SERVICES	Associate Degree - AAS	64
Hutchinson Community College	Hutchinson	Public	BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNOLOGY--ACCOUNTING SERVICES	One-year Technical Certificate - CERT	32
Cowley Community College	Arkansas City	Public	BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNOLOGY -ACCOUNTING CLERK	Associate Degree - AAS	62
Barton Community College	Great Bend	Public	TECHNICAL ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST	Associate Degree - AAS	64
Seward County Community College	Liberal	Public	ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY	Associate Degree - AAS	64
Seward County Community College	Liberal	Public	ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY	Associate Degree - AAS	64
National American University - Garden City	Garden City	Private	ACCOUNTING	Associate of Applied Science - AAS

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