associate specialist, mid office payroll.

Every year, we help hundreds of thousands of people find rewarding jobs in the ever-changing world of work.

We understand the importance of a job in peoples lifes and we want to help them find work that feels good. And we'll help them continue to grow as their needs and ambitions change.

At Randstad, our value comes from our people and that is why we put them first. We are proud of our learning culture and career architecture framework that encourages ours team to develop both personally and professionally.

We believe that talent grows when presented with opportunity and this is why we encourage our people to think beyond their role. We have created a culture that enables talent to flourish, encouraging entrepreneurship, fostering team spirit, and continually building mutual trust.

This role provides daily operational support to Randstad recruiters and sales associates related to time and expense capture with a high sense of urgency. This critical role requires coordination with field partners to ensure timely processing of talent

The success of the role will be driven by:

. Clarity of work and training provided to the offshore team

. Quality and timeliness of feedback especially during ramp-up

. Regular review of the effort and outcomes between onshore and offshore teams

. In addition to training, job aids to assist offshore team

. Timeliness and accuracy of data provided in the prepped recon.

The inclusion of the offshore team in daily huddles and regular communication

Key Role and Responsibilities

Responsible for total administrative processes for talent and clients related to time capture:

Run daily and weekly time audit reports to ensure all expected talent hours are received.

Responsible for processing received timecards via email or other time entry tools accurately to pay talent and bill clients. This includes entering time in RFO and closing Peoplenet and WTE clocks.

Perform daily time entry validations to ensure accuracy of time entry for manual timecards.

Handling of payroll errors

Pursue missing timecards and approvals daily to ensure all talent time is accounted for and approved and documenting efforts for field visibility.

Adhere to payroll schedules to ensure on cycle payroll for all talent timecards (paid and billed by Friday).

Performs all activities necessary to load time files into staging tables for payroll process for identified tools and/or platforms

Data entry or manual input to time entry systems

Completes post processing audits and completes adjustments as required

Documents and updates procedures for optimal team performance

Work with clients, branches and talent to improve timely submissions of timecards and approvals by ensuring talent fully on boarded and on assignment

Prepare customer and process level reporting to support management evaluation of team health.

May train less experienced team members and direct their daily work.

Review existing processes and recommend improvements to the same

Support compliance and control protocol as defined by organization key control framework

Other duties as assigned

Build Relationships with talent, clients, and internal departments is critical to the success of this role. The candidate should be able to handle conflict and demonstrate empathy for talent and a passion for Randstad's business.

Identify Opportunities to Improve:Help identify improvements for both process and operational performance for the Business Services organization and Randstad overall. Streamline time processing to ensure timeliness of pay and bill.

Other assigned duties from time to time

Key Skills Required

Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Suite products such as Gmail, Google Sheets, and shared dr ives

Strong customer focus and customer service skills

Excellent communication and organizational skills

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to analyze, explain, and draw logical conclusions from operational, regulatory, and/or business data

Must be detail oriented with a concern for quality expressed by continually initiating system and process improvements

Attention/Commitment to time frames and deadline.

Ability to respond to customer needs with speed and accuracy

Willingness and eager to learn is curious

Demonstrates Adaptability - Learning Randstad Pace

Connect the dots and understand dependencies

Acts with a sense of urgency

Openly receives feedback

Ability to multi-task and prioritize work

Accountable for personal results and teamwork

Adherence to deadlines

Focus on accuracy

Ability to organize and prioritize a large variety and volume of tasks to achieve position goals

Education & Qualifications (Required and Preferred):

. Bachelor's degree

. Minimum of 3 years of experience in Finance, Accounting or any other related experience

. Knowledge of Randstad operations and systems is an asset

. Basic excel and reporting

Key Competencies:

. Reduction in time to resolve incoming incidents

. Managing volume and reducing backlog

. Ability to manage in a fast paced environment

. Good data entry skills

. Strong ability to communicate at all levels of a multi-national enterprise

. Able to work under constantly changing conditions and tight deadlines

. Good skills in presenting and facilitating

. Prior exposure of working with overseas clients

. Manage multiple tasks simultaneously, meet/exceed deadlines and goals

. Average excel skills

. Professional, effective, and persuasive communication skills

Shift time: 8.00 AM to 5.00 PM EST

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