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St. Louis Community College

Specialist, Payroll

🇺🇸 St. Louis, MO

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $48K

💻 Finance

🗓️ October 20th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

St. Louis Community College is hiring a Specialist, Payroll. The role involves reviewing payroll-related documents, processing accounts, maintaining payroll records, preparing reports, and ensuring employees receive timely payments.

Highlights
  • Review and process insurance benefits applications for accuracy and compliance
  • Balance earnings and deduction totals and audit subsidiary ledgers
  • Prepare and file tax reports
  • Process new hires in the payroll system and correct out-of-balance conditions
  • Analyze, record, and tabulate payroll and insurance transactions
  • Coordinate payments to outside contractors and monitor employee city residency and work location
  • Maintain W-2s and pay stubs for all employees
  • High school diploma with 3-5 years related experience required
  • Certification or licensing may be required
  • Preferred associate degree in Business Administration or Accounting with Banner system and general ledger knowledge
  • Salary range: $47,800

Specialist, Payroll Full Description

Title: Specialist, Payroll
Employee Classification: 52 Wks Unit 
Department: Controller's Office
Salary Range:  $ 47,800

Who we are: 
We are not-for-profit:  St. Louis Community college (STLCC) is a non-profit institution dedicated to empowering students, expanding minds, and changing lives. Employees are committed to strengthening the St. Louis community with inclusive and transformative education.

We are a respected employer:  For 60 years, STLCC has served the St. Louis community, expanding to 4 main campuses, 2 education centers, 2 workforce training centers, and 5 centers of excellence. More than one-half of the households in St. Louis have at least one member who has taken classes at STLCC.

We make an impact in the community:  Through credit courses, continuing education, and workforce development programs, STLCC annually serves nearly 69,000 students.  More than 80% of career and technical graduates employed in their fields or continue their education at four-year institutions within six months of graduation.  STLCC sends more transfer students to Missouri’s four-year colleges/universities than anyone else.

What you get:
Benefits package [for full-time employees]:  STLCC offers one of the best benefit packages in the St. Louis area. As a STLCC employee you will have access to a 100% match on your contribution to retirement, two health insurance plans options - including an HSA option, low-cost life insurance with a 3x salary benefit, and other low-cost benefits including dental, vision, AD&D, Short-term & Long-term disability insurance.

Opportunity to grow:  Over half of our employees have served the college for more than 12 years, exploring different career paths and advancing to higher level positions.

Education & training opportunities: STLCC offers tuition waivers for employees [full-time and part-time] + their dependents.  Full-time employees can take advantage of tuition reimbursement for other institutions after just 6 months of service, and an annual professional development allotment.

Work/life balance:  Full-time STLCC employees have access to a generous time off package, including holidays, vacation, personal days, medical leave, and other leave options. Our holiday schedule even includes a paid winter holiday at the end of the calendar year.

Commitment to wellness:  STLCC HR boasts a dedicated health and wellness specialist who is enthusiastic about creating a culture of wellness throughout the College. With access to college wellness vendors, employees are educated, motivated, and rewarded for healthy behaviors. STLCC employees and anyone living in their household also have access to an employee assistance program (EAP) that can help them with virtually any life need.

The basics of this position:
The Payroll Specialist is responsible for reviewing documents and processing accounts related to payroll to facilitate all payroll functions, maintaining payroll accounts, creating related reports, and ensuring timely payroll payment for employees.

What you'll do:
  • Review and process insurance benefits applications and related documentation for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with all relevant policies and procedures
  • Balance and control earnings and deduction totals
  • Audit subsidiary ledgers that balance with the general ledger to support financial reports
  • Prepare and file tax reports
  • Process new hires into the payroll system
  • Determine and correct out-of-balance conditions
  • Analyze, record, and tabulate payroll and insurance transactions
  • Coordinate the payments to outside contractors
  • Monitor and verify city residency and work location for all employees
  • Maintain W-2 and pay stubs for all employees
  • Additional duties as assigned

Education, experience, and other requirements: 
• High school diploma with 3 - 5 years of related experience
• Certification from the relevant authority or other licensing or certification may be required

Preferred Qualifications:
• Preferred: Associate degree in Business Administration, General Accounting, or a related field with a minimum of two (2) years of experience 
• Banner experience and accounting knowledge of the general ledger preferred