Senior Accountant with Payroll Expertise

This is not a remote position, requires employee to come into the office every day.

Job Responsibilities

• Ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality
• Posting journal entries, updating financial statements, performing account reconciliations.
• Process payroll for all employees on a timely basis, ensuring accuracy in wages, bonuses, overtime, and deductions for multiple entities
• Maintain and update employee payroll records, tax exemptions, and wage changes
• Assist employees with payroll-related inquiries and resolve issues or discrepancies in a professional manner
• Reconciliation of benefits deductions and ensure proper recording in payroll systems and general ledger
• Record payroll entries in general ledger
• Prepares and submits bi-weekly retirement/401k reports and records in GL
• Collaborate with Staff accountant and train as backup
• Collaborate with Controller and assist with compensation calculations
• Evaluate and recommend efficiencies with payroll system provider
• Year-end tasks, including verification and distribution of Form W2’s and gathering of owner fringe benefit information
• Preparation of census information for 3rd party profit sharing calculations
• Assist with gathering information for 401k audit and workers comp audit
• Additional tasks in Accounting and Human Resources, as directed

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting, finance, required
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in accounting with experience in payroll processing preferred
• Familiar with accountng and payroll software and knowledge of tax law/payroll regulation is essential

Skills

• Accuracy in the entry and proofing of data.
• Ability to verify documents and forms for accuracy and completeness.
• Ability to make arithmetic computations accurately; may require the ability to use spreadsheets for calculations and reports.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, vendors, employees
• Ability to organize work efficiently, set and follow effective work priorities and to meet established accounting andpayroll deadlines.