Payroll Clerk Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for payroll clerk, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for on-going training and support to Payroll staff, employees and managers to assist with understanding of payroll guidelines and procedures.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Demonstrates a serious commitment to accuracy and quality while meeting goals and deadlines
• Can be trusted with extremely confidential and sensitive information
• Understanding Job Costing
• Payroll experience with an organization with over 1000 employees
• Processing multi-state biweekly payroll using SAP, overseeing the time reporting for assigned zones, processing direct deposit requests, maintaining accurate payroll records
• Responding to payroll related questions and concerns from employees, supervisors and management along with the appropriate payroll supervisor to provide coordinated, responsive support
• Data entry of time records, changes for promotions, demotions, pay rate changes, benefit deductions, terminations
• Compiling with federal, state and local pay and tax regulations, garnishment rules and other legal requirements

In response to your job posting for payroll clerk, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for information, assistance and/or training to employees, staff and the Institute community regarding payroll functions; provides technical and procedural assistance to staff and; trains appropriate staff on payroll policies and procedures; answers employee and staff questions during payroll editing and check processing.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Resolve invoicing questions or problems promptly
• Generate client reports, as needed
• Act as Point of Contact between corporate payroll department and local office to resolve any payroll discrepancies
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics, CRM, some form of similar ERP
• Familiarity with Kronos, Nova time, PeopleSoft time tracking systems
• A stable work history and successful track record of payroll performance in a large corporate environment is essential
• Perfectly Bilingual – English / Spanish
• Strong analytical skills and basic knowledge of accounting practices

In response to your job posting for payroll clerk, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for guidance and mentoring to the payroll staff and university community on appropriate operating processes and procedures.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Applying company pay policies and procedures
• Maintaining employee records relating to master file, deductions, garnishments and verifications
• Preparing manual, bonus and termination checks
• Able to process payroll in a complex, multiple state frequency environment
• Competitive rates and comprehensive benefits package
• Multi-state payroll 100-500 employees and over 500 employees
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, organizational skills
• Thunder Payroll

I am excited to be applying for the position of payroll clerk. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for recommendations on changes to policy, procedures, or rules that influence the administration of payroll, and communicates recommendations and business decisions to the Payroll Supervisor as appropriate.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• MAS90 or Sage 100 experience is a bonus
• MS Office, specifically Outlook, Excel, and Word
• Knowledge of payroll functions
• Proficient on Microsoft Word, Excel and computer processing
• Organizational skills to maintain payroll and general accounting document files and large volume of records
• Knowledge of a time and attendance system
• Maintain the timekeeping system regularly
• Submit a clean and error free payroll every week

I am excited to be applying for the position of payroll clerk. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for guidance on the completion of union payroll timekeeping data needed for data input into payroll systems.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Knowledge of benefit and tax deduction practices
• Co-ordinating the Payroll mailboxes
• Payroll Processing including one off payments and New Starters
• Payroll Reporting and Data Cleansing
• International Payroll admin processes
• Assisting with correspondence and customer service
• Understanding of payroll legislation and processes – desirable
• JD Edwards highly preferred