Senior Timekeeping Specialist
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The Senior Timekeeping Specialist supports payroll and timekeeping operations for UHD, coordinating with UT Payroll Services, UT Benefits, HR, and the payroll manager. The role processes payroll-related tickets, supports payroll periods and payouts, maintains procedures, and trains staff. It also provides backup accounting and finance support and assists with payroll projects and data requests.
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Ensure the timely submission of employee timesheets for payroll processing. Conduct regular data analysis to ensure accurate costing allocation and departmental budget coding for payroll transactions. Create and maintain standard operating procedures and presentation material on payroll guidelines. Take the lead on ensuring all SOPs are current and up to date, assisting to create new ones as needed. Facilitate payroll training and presentations within UHD. Coordinate with UT Payroll Services on payroll-related employee issues. Take the lead on training Accountant I and II UHD payroll positions. Serve as a backup for completing semi monthly/monthly payroll and assisting as needed. Work with the payroll manager to correct stop gap transactions. With the payroll manager, take the lead on processing/completing the UHD banking periods/ overtime payouts.Using the HR Ticket System, process all tickets related to payroll (new hires, separations, timesheet updates, etc.). Work with HR on establishing UHD policy and procedure around timekeeping, and maintaining accurate employee information in HR/Payroll system, including supervisory organization and costing allocation. Apply knowledge of HR policy and procedure. Coordinate with UT Benefits regarding leave awards. Take the lead on all timekeeping processes for reassignment UHD HR tickets/spreadsheets and special session RA assignments. Ensure all timekeeping processes within UHD HR tickets are completed, assist with processing both hourly and monthly staff. Assist the payroll manager, with gathering data for payroll awards and one time payments.Effectively communicates with team members, supervisors and customers via oral and written format. Consistently displays a sense of urgency and responsiveness in identifying and addressing needs of customers, vendors, team members, and management. Displays a proactive approach to addressing change and adapts to a variety of assignments.Effectively demonstrates knowledge of University policies and business procedures. Ensures that work reflects accuracy, neatness, thoroughness and compliance with the positions standard operating procedures. Uses collaborative solutions in problem-solving whenever appropriate. Remain current regarding new developments, technologies and processes in all areas of positions responsibility. Serve as the backup for the payroll manager.Financial Services: Provide back up support for the Accounting and Finance team and perform other UHD Accounting related functions as assigned. Attend meetings, act as a liaison and provide payroll expertise as well as knowledge on UHD policies and procedures. Assist the payroll manager with projects/data requests.
How this job compares
Set against the 636 open Payroll Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$65–91K/yr88 salary ranges
- US median$27–33/hr168 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 45 open Payroll Specialist jobs in Texas and 636 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- Payroll Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (447 postings).
- Education
- 35 of the 636 open Payroll Specialist jobs (6%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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