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Payroll Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for reviewing timecards and ensuring timely closing of payroll, ensuring all data is accurate.
• Responsible for reporting all overtime and double-time information to the management team
• Responsible for ensuring proper reporting of Health & Welfare hours and payment to the union.
• Responsible for reporting new hires in order for dues to be deducted from employees' checks on a monthly basis.
• Responsible for the matching, processing, and reconciliation of purchase orders and invoices.
• Review and coding of bills, invoices and transactions for accuracy and correct information. Obtain approvals as required or needed.
• Responsible for entering labor hours tracking into OMT
• Responsible for dropping sample orders into the appropriate system as requested.
• Responsible for managing shipping dock documents and reports and maintain the files accordingly
• Assist the HR Department with filing of documents related to HR and Safety
• Covers the front desk to ensure only appropriate personnel are allowed into the facility.
• Answering phone calls from the general number
• Work effectively with team members, employees, internal contacts across departments and externally, with vendors or customers.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service skills, communicating in a professional, courteous manner. Provide timely, prompt responses to customers and vendors.
• Perform other duties, projects, tasks, and reconciliations as needed or assigned.

Educational and Job Experience Requirements

Minimum - High school diploma or GED, and a minimum of four (4) years of relevant accounting experience, preferably in payroll, accounts payable and / or accounts receivable.

Preferred - Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Accounting or similar related field, plus a minimum of four (4) years of relevant accounting experience; or an Associate of Science (A.S.) with a highly relevant combination of years of applicable work / industry experience and training.

Job-related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Required Licenses / Certifications

Additional / Preferred

Physical Demands / Environmental Conditions

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This is largely a sedentary role sitting for long periods of time and with some walking / movement for retrieval of documents / filing. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, use fingers / hands with documents and to reach with hands, arms.

Hormel Foods provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse / family member of a protected veteran; or disability.