Payroll Specialist
Salary
$41,600.00 - $51,288.00 Annually
Location
Central Campus - Uptown/Elizabeth
Job Type
Full-Time Staff
Job Number
2026-00572
Unit
FO-Financial Services
Department
Payroll
Opening Date
10/30/2026
Closing Date
11/13/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
For part-time/adjunct faculty only:
N/A (not a PT faculty role)
Projected average hours of work per week:
40 (full-time)
- Description
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General Function
The Payroll Specialist will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, maintaining payroll records, and ensuring compliance with labor laws, college policies, and other regulatory organizations.
Applicants are encouraged to apply promptly, as this posting may be taken down before the listed closing date once adequate candidate interest has been reached.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Audits and verifies payroll and benefits data for active employees, ensuring accurate entry into the payroll HRIS. Collaborates with Human Resources to confirm payroll-related details and determine applicable deductions and benefits as needed. Ensures employees are paid accurately and on time.
- Verifies employee records, calculates changes to payroll, check requests, and reimbursements; ensures all necessary changes are made and/or stop payment requests are issued in a timely manner.
- Stays informed on regulations related to salary, benefits, and deduction processing, ensuring compliance with evolving payroll laws and institutional policies.
- Advises employees on Earnings Statement inquiries, including taxes, deductions, and pay codes, while maintaining strict confidentiality.
- Performs payroll accounting processes and/or reports as assigned including but not limited to analyzing, balancing & reconciling journal entries, refund of payroll, retirement reporting, month-end reporting, etc. that are due to internal and/or external agencies; gathers, analyzes, and provides accurate information in a timely manner while working within required reporting deadlines.
- Assist with the payroll process to create payroll vouchers, print pay checks and earnings statements, and mail checks to vendors.
- Reconciles benefit withholding to statement and makes necessary corrections.
- Serves as information resource to payroll team and customers, answers inquiries and provides information related to payroll matters; researches and resolves payroll problems and discrepancies.
- Works collaboratively with HR, Finance, and stakeholders throughout the College (managers, staff, faculty, etc.).
- Creates/updates and maintains the payroll standard operating procedures; test and implement new processes as needed.
- May organize/coordinate payroll trainings for various payroll processes.
- May serve as web ambassador.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements and Preferred Qualifications
Associate's degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or related field and 3 years of payroll processing experience including 2 years of accounting.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources or a related field or 4 years of payroll processing experience including 2 years of accounting.
Additional Information
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Worker Characteristics:
- Knowledge of office rules, procedures and operations regarding payroll
- Demonstrated self-motivation, attention to detail, and strong organizational skills
- Excellent communication, customer service, analytical and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll regulations (FLSA, IRS, Social Security, tax laws)
- Understanding of higher education payroll structures (faculty contracts, adjunct pay, stipends)
- Proficient in payroll systems (e.g., Workday, Ellucian, Informer, Banner, ADP)
Working Conditions:
While this position primarily follows standard office hours, occasional late hours or weekend work may be required during emergencies.
Central Piedmont is happy offer a comprehensive and affordable benefits package to full-time employees including:
- health care
- dental
- vision
- retirement and supplemental retirement
- flexible spending accounts (dependent care and health)
- life insurance and supplemental life insurance
- employee assistance program (for employee and family)
- short-term and long-term disability
- free parking
- holidays (12 + 2 necessity days)
- vacation (120 hours per year to start)
- sick leave (96 hours per year)
- personal days (2 days)
- voluntary shared leave
- paid parental leave (4 to 8 weeks)
- bereavement leave
- longevity pay
To learn more details, visit our Benefits page to see the Summary of Benefits.
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Do you have an Associate's degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or related field and 3 years of payroll processing experience including 2 years of accounting?
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Employer Central Piedmont Community College
Address 1201 Elizabeth Avenue
Charlotte, North Carolina, 28204
Phone 7043306631
Website http://www.cpcc.edu