Payroll Specialist

Title: Payroll Specialist

Salary Range: $33,672.00 - $46,536.00

Contract Term Length: 12 Months

Standard Hours: 37.5

Work Location: Hybrid

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

College: KCTCS System Office

Campus Location: System Office

Department: Payroll Shared Services

Total Rewards

KCTCS System Office offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks of Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program

Job Summary

This Payroll Specialist positions primary responsibility is to update, review, and audit payroll software transactions for the system and help ensure compliance and adherence to KCTCS policies and procedures and regulatory standards for time and absence, tax withholdings, and payroll processes. Work cooperatively with a team to support gross to net calculations, general deductions, benefit vendor payments, time and labor administration, tax administration and will support the payroll organization with other general administrative duties as assigned. Support software testing, implementation, and upgrades as needed and support other functional areas of payroll as needed.

This is a defined-term contract position renewable each fiscal year and located in Versailles, KY.

KCTCS offers a hybrid work schedule with a requirement to be onsite a minimum of 3 days per work week. Hybrid work schedules are subject to periodic review and may be modified or terminated at any time.

Job Duties:

Review, update, and audit payroll transactions across the system to ensure compliance and completeness.

Provide the payroll organization with administrative support.

Provide customer and technical support to staff throughout the system.

Provide support for PeopleSoft testing and software updates / upgrades.

Prepare and issue benefit vendor payments.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate's Degree and two (2) years of relevant experience or equivalent. 

Preferred Qualifications:

Associate's Degree and three (3) years of relevant experience or equivalent.

Additional Skills Requested: