Payroll Analyst, Hybrid (Livonia, MI)

<h2><b>Employment Type:</b></h2>Full time<h2><b>Shift:</b></h2><p></p><h1><b>Description:</b></h1><p>Is a member of the Trinity Health payroll shared services team. Supports all functional areas of payroll.  Works closely with Payroll <span>Managers/Representatives</span> of Regional Health Ministries to ensure accuracy of all aspects of employee payroll processing and information, ensuring compliance with Federal and State Regulations. Maintains a high degree of confidentiality for all payroll and human resource information.</p><p></p><p><b>ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS</b></p><p></p><p>Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.</p><p></p><p>Maintains accurate procedures in compliance with all Federal and State Regulations to analyze and monitor all payroll functions including tax setup/withholding, banking, garnishment, and general processing.</p><p></p><p>Responsibility for supporting relationships with contracted vendors and internal Trinity Health departments for regular auditing, implementing procedures, and ensuring accurate payroll withholdings, processing, and payments.</p><p></p><p>Reviews and balances payroll tax information and completes payroll tax reports.  This will include tax payments and tax reporting in a multi-state environment.  Keeps current with payroll tax laws to ensure tax information and employee earnings and tax data are accurate.  Knows and understands wage and hour issues.</p><p></p><p>Ensuring all aspects of the payroll cycle, including tax, benefits, wage attachment, banking etc. are processed, reconciled, audited, and transmitted accurately and timely.</p><p></p><p>Completes quarter end and year end payroll activities and assists RHM Payroll Managers to ensure compliance and accuracy.</p><p></p><p>Runs reports and performs audits in support of ensuring accurate data.</p><p></p><p>Loads EIBs to make employment records adjustments as appropriate to ensure accurate payroll processing.</p><p></p><p>Supports the payroll production process.</p><p></p><p>Maintains confidentiality of all payroll and human resources information.</p><p></p><p>Participates and takes responsibility for special projects related to system enhancements and quality improvements.  Assists in the coordination of policy and procedure implementation.</p><p></p><p>Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws/regulations; the Trinity Health Integrity and Compliance Program and Code of Conduct; as well as other policies and procedures to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.</p><p></p><h1>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS</h1><p></p><p>Associate's degree with major coursework in bookkeeping, accounting or related field and three (3) to five (5) years of comprehensive knowledge and progressively responsible payroll experience in a multi-entity and multi-state organization handling payroll and payroll processes, payroll tax and state reciprocity rules, garnishments, payroll related regulatory compliance including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), banking ACH/settlement, and internal controls for the payroll cycle or an equivalent combination of education and related work experience.</p><p></p><p>Must work well in a team environment and have good oral and written communication skills and be comfortable communicating with all levels of the organization.</p><p></p><p>Must possess strong analytical skills and have the ability to develop appropriate methodologies for collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and evaluating data. </p><p></p><p>Must be detail oriented and able to meet established deadlines.  Excellent follow through is required.</p><p></p><p>Must possess strong personal computer skills, particularly Excel. Experience with Workday, Kronos timekeeping and ADP tax services is preferred.</p><p></p><p>Must have a demonstrated understanding of the principles of accounting.</p><p></p><p>Must possess a high degree of professionalism and customer focus as well as the ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.</p><p></p><p>Must be a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to exercise good judgment, tact and diplomacy.</p><p></p><p>Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.</p><p></p><p>Must have a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring as well as the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision goals and values of Trinity Health.</p><p></p><p><b>PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS</b></p><p></p><p>Must be able to set and organize own work priorities and adapt to them as they change frequently.  Must be able to work concurrently on a variety of tasks/projects in an environment that may be stressful with individuals having diverse personalities and work styles. </p><p></p><p>May need to travel to the various Trinit