Senior Payroll Accounting Professional

Job Title: Senior Payroll Accounting Professional

Location: Malvern, PA/ Hybrid

Pay rate: $56/hr.W2

Job ID: SIMNJP00078575

Duration: 6Months with possible extension

Shift timings: 08:30am - 5:30pm

Primary Function

• Support payroll accounting operations following a 2025 payroll system migration.
• Reconcile payroll to accounting systems and ensure accurate financial postings.
• Strengthen documentation and end-to-end process clarity for payroll-related workflows.
• Monthly GL interface work (~40 hrs/month)
• Reconciliations & issue research (~80 hrs/month)
• Documentation, value flows, meetings, issue tracking (~40 hrs/month)

Required Experience:

• 7 years relevant experience.
• Bachelor's in accounting required; CPA preferred (not mandatory if experience is strong).
• MUST have combined expertise in:
• Payroll accounting (earnings codes, deductions, taxability)
• Core accounting (debits/credits, financial impacts, ledger posting)
• Must understand end-to-end flow: payroll → cash out → GL ledger → financial impact.
• SAP (primary)
• Workday (reports only; no direct access needed)
• Excel / Microsoft Office
• Bonus: KNIME, Access, data-processing tools.
• Strong research, follow‑up, and problem-solving skills.
• Flexible with fluctuating onsite needs (especially during audits).

Position Description:

• Plans, prepares and consolidates balance sheet and P&L statements and reports, according to relevant accounting standards (IFRS, GAAP, local standards, etc.).
• Prepares reports for unit or "Finance & Controlling" management.
• Analyzes and evaluates assets and liabilities.
• May analyze tax obligations and recommends measures to optimize tax payments.
• Contributes with analyses relevant for annual financial report.
• May maintain operational bank contacts, and contributes in "Finance & Controlling" activities.
• Completes projects concerning improvements of general financial processes.
• Review payroll general ledger interfaces and all payroll activities for 7 ARE’s both US and Canada Ensure that files received from the payroll provider are posted and address issues and discrepancies with the Payroll Team.
• Prepare and/or review various account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly journal entries for various accruals such as AP Accruals, T & E, Bonus, PTO, Severance, Relocation, Deferred Compensation.
• Collaborate with HR and finance teams to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing.
• Follow-up with HR to address differences between Bank and GL are addressed timely.
• Stay current with changes in payroll laws and regulations.
• Prepare various P & L and Balance Sheet analytical for Month-end Closing.
• Performs complex analyses of financial process flow to validate controls, harmonize processes, increase efficiencies, and ensure accuracy of financial transactions.
• Support for internal and external audit requirements
• Cooperates with vendors, clients in reconciling the account status, on an accountable level.
• Keeps abreast with changes of internal guidelines and external accounting standards, and trains Accounting Operations staff respectively. Impacts: v Is expected to adopt existing concepts, methodologies, etc. in order to create and open up new ways of approaching and fulfilling specific internal and external client requests or project requirements.