Payroll Assistant
- Employer
- Lehigh University
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA
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- Administrative Jobs
- Institutional & Business Affairs, Business & Financial Management
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The Payroll Assistant will provide data entry and clerical duties in support of the Office of Controller-Payroll office.
Accountabilities:- Receive and process incoming mail; perform data entry and auditing functions
- Review, proof and enter information into payroll and timekeeping systems
- Receive and track incoming mail and data; route to proper staff
- Audit incoming documents, verify completeness and accuracy, identify and resolve issues
- Audit data entry as needed
- Monitor departmental email accounts
- Completes departmental filing
- Responds to inquiries
- Follow up with employees and/or departments regarding missing or inaccurate payroll data
- Performs clerical and receptionist responsibilities
- Distributes various communications to departments
- Assist in the distribution of year end tax forms
- Prepares paper files for storage
- Customer service
- Meet and greet all individuals that come into the Payroll Office
- Respond to customer questions and concerns promptly; in person and via email
- Answer and respond to incoming phone calls
- Screen phone calls and forward to correct coordinator
- High school diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience
- One year related work experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Solid writing ability and organizational skills
- Solid computer skills with experience using word processing and spreadsheet software
- Successful completion of standard background checks including but not limited to: social security verification, education verification, county and national criminal background checks, PATCH, FBI fingerprinting, Child Abuse Clearance. Based upon the requirements of the position Lehigh may also request credit history reports, motor vehicle checks and professional license/certification verification
- Periods of high volume/workload may be required during semester changes or fiscal year end
Organization
Founded in 1865, Lehigh University is a premier coeducational, nondenominational, private residential research university that offers a distinctive academic environment for undergraduate and graduate students from across the globe. Lehigh University’s annual report from 2013 provides an overview of the intellectual activity across campus as well as a financial report. It is posted on our website at http://www.lehigh.edu/annualreport/ .
Lehigh offers more than 90 undergraduate programs and majors featuring more than 2,000 courses in four colleges: The College of Arts and Sciences, The College of Business and Economics, The College of Education and The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. Lehigh confers a total of 12 degrees at the undergraduate and advanced degree level. We have 482 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty and approximately 200 adjunct faculty and lecturers and 10 full-time visiting faculty. With approximately 4700 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students, a small student-to-faculty ratio allows students to work closely with professors. About 69% of all full-time faculty are tenured, and 99% of full-time tenure-track faculty hold a doctorate degree or the highest degree in their field. We have 1,215 staff members supporting the academic, research and administrative functions.
Located in Pennsylvania’s scenic Lehigh Valley, the campus is in close proximity to both New York City and Philadelphia. Lehigh is situated on over 2,300 acres on four campuses. The Asa Packer Campus, Mountaintop Campus, and Murray H. Goodman Campus are contiguous and feature more than 153 buildings with 4.3 million-plus square feet of classroom, laboratory, office and living space. The campus also has 180 acres of playing fields and half of the campus is preserved as open space.
- Website
- http://www.lehigh.edu/
- Telephone
- 610.758.3165
- Location
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27 Memorial Drive West
Bethlehem
PA
18015
US
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