Payroll Technician II

The City of Virginia Beach is a vibrant coastal community and one of the most populous cities in Virginia, providing services to over 450,000 citizens. Our Finance department delivers comprehensive financial and business services, protecting the City's resources in a high-quality , cost effective and innovative environment. We are seeking a qualified individual to join our team as a Payroll Technician II.

The duties entail carrying out the full range Payroll Technician functions in the City's Central Payroll Office including review, audit, verification and approval of City-wide payroll transactions.

Daily functions may include, but are not limited to:

• Handle sensitive pay issues and inquiries. Maintain high level of security relating to payroll information.

• Perform full range of payroll functions in compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local regulations and policies, and validate payment authorization.

• May process highly specialized payroll functions such as third party payments in compliance with applicable regulations and policies with assistance/oversight from a Payroll Technician III or Supervisor.

• Apply the full range of payroll processes to time, leave, and pay components applicable throughout the municipal organization (e.g., allowances, differentials, 40-hour and alternate work-weeks, stand-by, overtime, holiday, paid and unpaid leave), pay actions under the various City Administrative, Benefit and Human Resource policies as well as federal and state regulations.

• Perform a wide variety of recordkeeping and payroll activities, including computing wage and overtime payments, approving special payments, calculating and recording payroll deductions, processing requests for paycheck advances, and processing terminations.

• Balance and control earnings and deduction totals, calculate and prepare general ledger entries, inspect review and reconcile registers and audit standard report data, determine and correct out-of-balance conditions, gather payroll data for inclusion in financial statements, and research and prepare special reports for management, calculate recurring and non-recurring pay.

• May perform highly specialized payroll functions with oversight/assistance from a Payroll Technician III or Supervisor.

The City offers a generous benefits package, which includes health, dental and life insurance, retirement and savings plans, maternity/paternity and parental leave, holidays and Paid-Time-Off.