Student Hourly - Payroll Services

40% - Provide friendly and professional customer service to staff, faculty, and student employees via phone, email, and in-person.

40% - Complete daily routine tasks: logging various payments and other metrics - verifying, scanning, and uploading employee payroll documents to the document management system - maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive employee information.

20% - Assist Payroll staff with other administrative tasks as needed.

Disclaimer

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Work Schedule

20-25 hours weekly when classes are not in session.

Up to 20 hours weekly while classes are in session.

Contact Information to Applicants

Melissa Bissey

Experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), as demonstrated in application materials.

Effectively strong attention to detail as evidenced by application materials.

Federal Work Study financial aid award.

Summer availability.

Effectively strong verbal and written communication skills as evidenced in application materials.

Demonstrated ability to work independently and within a team.

Position Overview

Financial Services is hiring a student hourly employee to work in the Payroll Services office whose mission is to serve the university and KU employees by providing accurate and timely compensation in an efficient manner.

This role offers the opportunity to work in a team environment gaining valuable customer service skills and an understanding of payroll taxes including tax treaties for foreign nationals.

Additional Candidate Instruction

A complete application consists of:

Completion of the online application

Cover Letter

Resume

Names/Contact Information for 3 professional references

Current Class Schedule/availabilityTo ensure consideration apply before the application review date 5/19/2025. A review of applications will continue until qualified candidates are identified.

Position Requirements

During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours. For summer periods the student hourly must: (1) have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester or (2) be pre-enrolled in the upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours or (3) be enrolled in summer session or (4) be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester. Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students. (Exceptions granted for GRA/GTA/GA appointments DO NOT apply to Student Hourly appointments).

Employment Conditions

(1) Student employees are not eligible for remote work arrangements unless an exception is approved by the unit leadership and HR.

(2) This is an hourly/non-exempt position. A student employee cannot hold an hourly/non-exempt position and a salaried/exempt graduate or undergraduate position (GRA/GTA/GA/RUA/RGA) concurrently.