✓Responsible for ISE payroll being processed on time and accurately each month, ensuring taxes are calculated correctly and reporting to respective tax authorities on time and maintaining NAD-based employee retirement contribution records, accuracy of deductions and reporting to NAD retirement on schedule.
✓Maintains a strong understanding of US payroll rules and regulations and a basic knowledge Canadian and global payroll regulations.
✓Supervises the Payroll Specialist and coordinates workflow as needed to ensure timely and accurate payroll processing.
✓Works closely with GC treasury to maintain necessary funding in IPRS bank accounts, making Royal Bank of Canada payments for GC Treasury and IPRS.
✓Monitors GC ISE accounts for personal charges and works closely with the ISE to clear charges from their monthly pay.
✓Calculates financial portion for the Information Letter and Statement of Understanding document for new or transferring ISEs, providing salary estimates to division liaisons.
✓Reviews employee records in multiple databases for newly hired and transferring ISEs.
✓Updates and reviews monthly division foreign exchange rates and annual division wage factors used in ISE salary calculations, updating cost of living indexes for all countries and notifying users.
✓Communicates regularly with all world divisions regarding changes in ISE salary, position, new hires, terminations, unpaid leaves, etc., monitoring MBSOC actions for changes to ISE positions and updating employment records.
✓Processes quarterly memos funding to world divisions for all ISE retirement plans and contributions.
✓Receives and processes memos from divisions for ISE social security/national insurance contributions, maintaining a basic knowledge of regulations for social security (SS) programs in countries that tax international income, reviewing and reimbursing ISE requests for duplicate SS tax liability or self-employment taxes.
✓Works with a 3rd party company providing global cost of living analysis to update applicable ISE records.
✓Reconciles General Ledger accounts used for ISE salary and allowance expenses.
✓Submits unpaid leave requests to MBSOC agenda for vote and updates employment records accordingly.
✓Maintains strong knowledge of payroll software for periodic updates relative to potential expansion of its capabilities within the ISE payroll system.
✓Handles all processes associated with payroll including loan amortization taxation, payroll memos, correcting or amending pay statements and payroll memos and updating employee banking information in SunSystems and UKG.
✓Responds to high volume of email in a timely and professional manner.
✓Processes fund transfer requests from ISEs and divisions, handling ACH payment requests, maintaining strict adherence to internal controls and deadlines.
✓Creates and maintains reports in UKG payroll software for IPRS Payroll use as well as departmental reports and reports for other organizations and divisions.
✓Updates training materials (Payroll) to be used by Co-Directors for presentations at Mission Institutes.
✓Submits content for the newsletter related to payroll.
✓Works closely with the technology team on process improvement, staying current with Payroll.org and UKG software updates as well as payroll trends.
✓Must be a member in regular standing of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
✓Must maintain a regular and reliable attendance schedule.
✓Other duties as assigned.
✓Bachelors (BA/BS) degree in accounting or business administration or equivalent work experience. Must have at least five years of directly applicable experience.
✓Applicable and successful work experience may be acceptable in lieu of educational requirement.
✓Proficiency in second language is a plus.