Key Responsibilities
Payroll Accounting & Reconciliations
- Prepare and record payroll-related journal entries for multiple payroll cycles and entities.
- Reconcile payroll clearing, wage, tax, benefits, workers compensation, and other payroll-related balance sheet accounts.
- Reconcile employee benefit deductions, employer benefit expenses, and benefit vendor invoices.
- Analyze payroll variances and investigate discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Maintain payroll accounting schedules and support audit requests.
Payroll & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Serve as the primary accounting liaison to the Payroll team.
- Review payroll reports for completeness, reasonableness, and accounting accuracy.
- Assist in researching payroll issues, adjustments, corrections, and retroactive transactions.
- Collaborate with payroll and operations personnel to ensure accurate employee and client payroll data.
- Communicate effectively with offshore, outsourced, and cross-functional teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- Experience preparing and posting payroll journal entries.
- Experience performing payroll-related balance sheet reconciliations and researching reconciling items.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of transactions.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
