Payroll Clerk
North Bolivar School District • Mound Bayou, MS • Full Time
Posted on Fri, May 22, 2026
North Bolivar Consolidated School District
Job Description
Title: Payroll Clerk
Qualifications:
1. Computer skills
2. Other qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable
Reports To: Superintendent of Education, Assistant Superintendent, the, Business Office
manager, and the designee of the Superintendent
Job Goals: To process and accurately maintain al! payroll records for the school district Mission and Goals
- Works with the Superintendent, Business Office manager, and those whom he/she supervises to articulate and promote the school systems vision of teaching and teaming
- Monitors and evaluates progress toward accomplishment of system goals and objectives
- Develops goals, objectives, programs, and operations that are consistent with school system vision, mission, and goals
- Ensures that unit and program plans are consistent with the system strategic plan
- Organizes daily, monthly, and yearly schedules to facilitate teaching and leaming in the schcols
- Processes and maintains all personne! records in the computer for the new fiscal year, including annual contract amount, monthly salary, certificate, years of experience, number of days contracted and tax and retirement withholdings
- Processes all bankruptcies, garnishments, and child support orders pertaining to district personnel
- Processes and maintains records of all hourly and daily personne! in the computer, designating hourly or daily rate of pay
- Processes and maintains resignation files
- Establishes and maintains sick, personal, and vacation days for eligible employees
- Processes monthly time sheets for hourly and daily personnel prior to running payroll
- Processes all absences, docks employees for excessive absences, and creates sub-teacher pay from the same
- Verifies that insurance deductions are balanced prior to running payroll
- Edits all payroll reports
- Prints and distributes payroll checks
- Adjusts individual payroll checks as needed
- Runs final reports to close payroll for the month. Transfers monies from various funds into payroll clearing account.
- Processes withholding and garnishing checks and issues to appropriate vendor.
- Transfers monies from various funds to cover same.
- Prepares and deposits federal and state tax deposits
- Reports and records retirement contributions by employee and matching from employer to PERS according to requirements
- Processes and balances all quarterly reports and mails tc appropriate agency
- Processes two payrolls in June on “old” money and reconciles contract completion
- Processes and records unemployment requests
- Sets up and maintains pay status, sick leave, and salary schedule codes as change occurs
- Creates through query any special reports as requested
- Performs any other task as designated by the Superintendent, the Deputy Superintendent, the Business Office manager, and the designee of the Superintendent
Terms of Employment: Ten, eleven, or twelve-month year. Salary and work year will be
established by the Board
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the
Board policy on
Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.