What are the responsibilities and job description for the Payroll Accountant position at Applicantz?
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Seeking a Payroll Accountant to support its payroll accounting operations within a large enterprise environment. This role is responsible for maintaining accurate general ledger entries related to payroll, performing balance sheet reconciliations, and ensuring proper accrual accounting for employee compensation, benefits, and stock activity.
Key Responsibilities
- Handle payroll accounting, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and GL entries.
- Manage PTO/vacation reserve tracking and year-end vacation payouts.
- Process cash clearing transactions and employee stock purchase reconciliations.
- Prepare and post payroll-related journal entries to the general ledger.
- Reconcile payroll accounts, including wages payable, taxes, and benefits.
- Analyze payroll variances and resolve discrepancies.
- Maintain accurate payroll records for audits and regulatory purposes.
- Monitor and reconcile benefit-related accounts.
- Assist with internal and external audits related to payroll.
- Provide explanations to cost center owners regarding employee transactions.
- Ensure adherence to internal controls and company policies.
- Identify and implement improvements to payroll processes.
- Support payroll system upgrades or implementations.
Qualifications
- Requires completion of a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field and a minimum of nine (9) months of experience in accounting related roles.
- 1–3 years of accounting experience with exposure to payroll accounting or payroll finance support strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of general ledger accounting, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliation.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel including pivot tables and VLOOKUPs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA or comparable ERP system preferred.
- Experience with ADP Global View and Smart Compliance in a large enterprise payroll environment.
- Blackline reconciliation platform experience strongly preferred.
Our client a Fortune 200 Corporation that provides services and products to the upstream oil and natural gas industry and is one of the world's largest oil field service companies.
Salary : $70,000 - $75,000