Associate Payroll Specialist

Join our Payroll Team!

Our Mission: Quality, compassionate care for all.

Our Vision: Reimagine health care through connection, service and innovation.

Our Core Values: Be Kind | Trust and Be Trusted | Work Together | Strive for Excellence.

Logan Health is looking for an Associate Payroll Specialist to be part of their team at Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell, MT!

What you'll be doing:

This position plays a crucial role in ensuring accurate payroll processing and seamless timekeeping operations! You'll analyze data trends, support leadership with insightful reports, and collaborate with managers and payroll teams to uphold pay accuracy and compliance.

If you thrive in a detail-oriented, fast-paced environment and enjoy making a direct impact on employee experience, this role is for you!

Why choose Logan Health?

• Opportunities For Career Growth

• Supportive & Collaborative Team Environment

• Competitive Benefits: Matching 401(k) & Fitness Center membership discount

Qualifications:

• Basic Accounting knowledge required. Knowledge may be acquired through high school or college level accounting classes, an accredited degree, or self-taught.

• Experience with time and attendance and payroll software preferred.

• Knowledge of State and Federal wage and hour laws preferred.

• Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, a self-started, possess critical thinking skills and be able to set priorities and function as part of a team as well as independently.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with various audiences.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.

• Possess and maintain computer skills to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn other software as needed.

Job Specific Duties:

• Assists with analyzing data trends, abstracting data, and creating timely reports and recommendations to the leadership team.

• Assists with creating and participating in the training, implementation, and maintenance of computer system programs.

• Acts as the primary resources for the time and attendance software system.

• Maintains timecards in accordance with system pay practices and policies per department procedures.

• Works with managers and supervisors to support time off requests, inter-department floating accuracy, training, and education on clocking and pay code utilization.

• Works in collaboration with Payroll team to process and audit the time and attendance duties per organizational standards.

• Assists appropriate stakeholders in analysis reporting verifications.

• Exhibits a high degree of integrity and maintains confidentially at all times.  Exhibits a commitment to professionalism while undertaking all tasks and in all interactions.

• Assists with training department and/or supervisor levels as applicable to department protocol.

• Works closely with Payroll team with bi-weekly payroll processing.

• Investigates and researches problem scenarios and performs appropriate corrections and/or coordinates with stakeholders for corrections.

•  Maintains records and reports to ensure continuous improvement in aspects of timekeeping.

• Assists with general payroll processing information and serves as backup support for the payroll team.

The above essential functions are representative of major duties of positions in this job classification.  Specific duties and responsibilities may vary based upon departmental needs.  Other duties may be assigned similar to the above consistent with knowledge, skills and abilities required for the job.  Not all of the duties may be assigned to a position.

Maintains regular and consistent attendance as scheduled by department leadership.

Logan Health takes great pride in offering its employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Health, Dental, and Vison insurance

• 401(k) with generous matching

• Employer-provided life insurance

• Voluntary life and disability insurance options

• Critical Illness and Voluntary Accident options

• Employee assistance program (EAP)

• FSA

• Free p