Payroll/HR Business Services Specialist

University of Maryland, United States

Updated: about 5 hours ago
Location: College Park, MARYLAND
Deadline: 28 Jun 2024

Posting Details
Posting Details


Position Number: 100460
Title: Business Services Specialist
Functional Title: Payroll/HR Business Services Specialist
Category Status: 20-Nonexempt,Regular
Applicant Search Category: Staff
University Authorized FTE: 1.000
Unit: VPA-Transportation Services-Parking
Hiring Range Minimum: 46407
Hiring Range Maximum: 55688
Benefits Summary Top Benefits and Perks:

Nonexempt Benefits Summary

Campus/College Information:
Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the flagship institution in the University System of Maryland. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
Background Checks
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify you from employment.
Position Summary/Purpose of Position:
The Payroll/HR Business Services Specialist is responsible for overseeing and processing all aspects of the Department of Transportation Services payroll, serving a diverse workforce of over 400 nonexempt and exempt regular, contractual, and student employees. Their duties include provide instructions to departmental staff on payroll policies and procedures, maintaining and updating payroll forms and policies, assessing the efficiency of payroll operations, assists with human resources related functions. and suggesting and executing improvements where necessary.
The responsibilities of this position also includes:
  • Processing and monitoring new, change and termination appointments in PHR.
  • Updating salaries/hourly rates at the start of the new fiscal year; processing new hires, terminations, pay rate changes throughout the year; processes employment eligibility with everify.
  • Processing pay increases and calculations of back pay; updating and maintaining leave records, tracking end-of contract dates.
  • Keeping and maintaining the official personnel records according to rules and regulations of the University.
  • The Payroll/HR Business Services Specialist must cultivate employee confidence, protect payroll operations, keep information secure and maintain a strict confidentiality for the Human Resources actions within the department.
  • Manage Card Swipe System and Card Swipe online program
  • Processing eTerp/PHR/Workday information and working with hiring, onboarding and terminations to ensure human resources is running efficiently.
  • Preparing various staffing and financial reports as requested, and performing other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
High School Diploma or GED.
Experience:
Six years progressively responsible experience in a combination of budgeting, accounting, payroll, purchasing, and personnel work.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Working knowledge of and ability to apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
  • Working knowledge of management principles and practices. 
  • Skill in applying basic analytical skills to review expenditures and revenues, prepare forecasts, and reconcile accounts. 
  • Skill in performing basic mathematical computations. 
  • Skill in planning work and supervising others. 
  • Skill in organizing and executing multiple assignments under specific time constraints. 
  • Ability to understand and interpret University policies and procedures in the areas of finance, human resources, payroll, purchasing, and sponsored programs. 
  • Ability to prepare and present budgetary, accounting, and other reports and schedules. 
  • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing. 
  • Ability to operate office equipment, computers, and related software. 
  • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters with discretion and tact.


Other:
Except for qualifications established by law, additional related experience and formal education in which one has gained the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for full performance of the work of the job class may be substituted for the education or experience requirement on a year-for-year basis with 30 college credits being equivalent to one year of experience.
Preferences:
Preferences:
  • Two years of progressive work experience in payroll, human resources, accounting or budgeting.
  • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters with discretion and tact.
  • Skill in organizing and executing multiple assignments under specific time constraints.
  • Skill in performing basic mathematical computations and the ability to apply financial and analytical skills in the development of payroll appointments.
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically with Excel and Word.
  • Payroll and/or personnel work experience in a University environment or similar setting.
Additional Certifications:
Additional Information:
Job Risks Not Applicable to This Position
Physical Demands
Standard Office Working Environment.
Posting Date: 06/14/2024
Closing Date: 06/28/2024
Open Until Filled No
Diversity Statement:
The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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