Payroll & Benefits Assistant

The fundamental reason that this position exists is to provide clerical and technical payroll and employee benefit support.  The essential functions of this classification include: processing payroll for benefit recipients, performing technical employee benefit work, providing benefit information, and performing general clerical duties. Individuals in this classification typically work with payroll as well as one or more types of employee benefits such as retirement benefits, workers’ compensation benefits, health benefits, employee health options, flexible spending account benefits, life insurance, and other voluntary benefits and have access to highly confidential information.  Payroll and Benefits Assistants are supervised by various classifications, dependant upon the incumbents’ assigned locations. 

High School Diploma or G.E.D. and two years of payroll and/or clerical benefits experience working with retirements, health insurance, workers’ compensation, or similar benefits.

Applications are being accepted to fill one (1) vacancy and any vacancies that may occur during the life of the register. The current vacancy is with the City of Montgomery Finance Department.  Applicants will be screened and qualified based on the education and experience on the application and attached supplemental questionnaire. For this reason, applicants are urged to fill in the application form and supplemental questionnaire completely providing detailed information concerning the kinds of jobs they have held, the dates they held them, where and exactly what their duties were.  If more than five qualified applications are received, a selection procedure will be administered to rank applicants.  Tied scores will not be broken (in accordance with Personnel Rules and Regulations, Rule VII, Section 3). If there are five or less qualified applicants, they will be considered equally qualified and placed on the register in alphabetical order.

Complete an online application by visiting Montgomery City-County Personnel's Online Employment Center. Paper applications are no longer accepted. Completed applications will be accepted online until 5:00 p.m. on the closing date. If there is no closing date, the announcement may be closed at any time without prior notice.

This position is open only to City of Montgomery employees who have completed their probationary period and meet the minimum qualifications.