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Payroll Administrator IV
Primary Location Renton, Washington
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day
Salary $32.45 - $41.93 / hour
Job Number 1410092
Date Posted 02/26/2026
Job Summary:
Processes and supports the distribution of employee payments and exercises judgment issuing or reissuing replacement checks and payment reclamation orders. Creates routine and nonroutine data uploads independently. Addresses employee inquiries and internal reporting efforts by reissuing information requests for missing or incomplete information, and escalating unanswered messages to a senior team member. Contributes to adherence to best practices, tax regulations, union contracts, and regulation authorities to ensure compliance across payroll through reviewing regulations.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Pursues effective relationships across teams and/or the organization to obtain and share resources, information, and advice with coworkers and members. Listens to, addresses, and seeks performance feedback; acts as a mentor for less experienced team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; reviews others work to help them learn. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in work; helps others adapt to non-routine situations. Identifies and responds to the needs of others to support the execution of varied work processes.
- Works within established procedures and practices to complete routine work assignments autonomously; follows instructions to complete novel or varied tasks. Collaborates with others to identify and implement appropriate solutions for routine and non-routine issues; escalates high-priority issues or risks; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet established priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities within and across teams.
- Processes employee payments by: supporting the distribution of employee payments (e.g., compensation, State Disability Insurance), in routine situations independently while also processing garnishment orders as requested; and exercising judgement issuing or reissuing replacement checks and payment reclamation orders when appropriate for standard and nonstandard payments.
- Supports or leverages payroll data processing by: entering routine and complex employee data (e.g., timesheets, employee hourly rates, earned time off) into the appropriate systems; entering routine and nonroutine data adjustments independently; creating routine and nonroutine data uploads independently; verifying adjustments and requests related to employee data; and reconciling routine, nonroutine, and complex discrepancies between payroll and other accounts.
- Addresses employee inquires and internal reporting efforts by: reissuing information requests for missing or incomplete information, and escalating unanswered messages to a senior team member; supporting the responses to routine, nonroutine, and complex inquiries regarding pay discrepancies, earned time off, basic tax analysis, and others raised by employees and supervisors and resolving concerns; working with other departments such as HR and benefits, under the direction of others, to obtain information through inquiries and process it; and preparing existing routine, nonroutine, and complex reports as requested.
- Contributes to adherence of best practices, tax regulations, union contracts, and regulation authorities to ensure compliance by: reviewing regulations to maintain familiarity to be able to contribute to adherence and interpret regulations; and preparing and submitting routine information to regulating authorities, such as application information and employment status changes.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)
- Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
- Attention to Detail
- Business Knowledge
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Cross-Group Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Dependability
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
- Drives Results
- Facilitation Skills
- Health Care Industry
- Influencing Others
- Integrity
- Learning Agility
- Organizational Savvy
- Problem Solving
- Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
- Teamwork
- Topic-Specific Communication
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)
- Data Entry
- Data Quality
- Financial Acumen
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Software
- Regulatory Reporting
- Reporting Tools
- Trend Analysis
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in payroll, or a directly related field.
- High School Diploma or GED, or equivalent AND minimum three (3) years of experience working in a corporate or business office environment OR Minimum four (4) years of experience working in a corporate or business office environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Two (3) years of experience working with Human Resources (HR) data in a major HR Enterprise Reporting Platform (ERP) (e.g., SAP, PeopleSoft, HCM, etc.).
- Associate's degree in Payroll, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a directly related field AND two (2) years of experience in a corporate or business office environment or a directly related field.
Primary Location: Washington,Renton,Renton Administration - Rainier
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Remote
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-PO-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: Po/Ho Corp - Rgnl Mg Admn-Finance Dept - 0308
Pay Range: $32.45 - $41.93 / hour
Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente.
Travel: No
Remote: Work location is the remote workplace (from home) within KP authorized states.
Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
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