JOB SUMMARY: We are looking for a Senior Payroll Accountant reporting to our Corporate Office in Boca Raton, FL and is focused on payroll and benefits accounting and will require experience handling a large employee base and related benefits. This position will be part of the monthly closing, analytical, reconciliation and reporting processes. The position requires someone who is very hands-on with strong analytical skills and will understand the company's business activities and its impacts on assigned areas.
RESPONSIBILITIES:- Performing assigned monthly Journal Entries, closing responsibilities, analytics, and reporting.
- Work will be focused on the following areas: (1) ensuring postings of weekly payroll registers from payroll platform occurs with errors identified and corrected, (2) post all adjustments from payroll expense accounts necessary against reserves and balance sheet accounts to reflect proper expense and asset/liability balances, (3) work with our legal department to record all workers compensation and auto claims expense and maintain proper reserves (4) prepare monthly forecast for payroll groups excluding direct labor (5) analyze results versus forecast and actual and provide explanations for variations and identify possible adjustments needed (6) maintain all benefit accruals related to medical, dental, compensation, bonus, severance, and other benefits (7) work with the Controller in preparation of annual budget and revisions during the year related to payroll and benefits (8) analyze all PL accounts in the monthly close related to payroll and benefits to ensure that expenses are in line with expectations and variances can be verified (9) reconciliation of payroll bank accounts
- Other areas of responsibility:
- Becoming knowledgeable about our business operations and how that relates to assigned areas
- Being proactive in communicating with other areas of the business to ensure that activities in your assigned areas are addressed and reflected properly in the accounting records
- Preparing balance sheet reconciliations on all assigned accounts
- Preparing PL analyses on all assigned accounts
- Interim and year-end audit support
- Working with an integrated ERP platform and participating in its maintenance and updates
- Participating in creating, updating, and maintaining accounting policies and procedures
- Collaborating with other areas of the organization to support and improve the business
- Completing other areas of accounting as assigned.
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:Candidates must meet the company's hiring criteria.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting from an accredited university
- Minimum seven years experience is required with three years handling payroll and benefits
- Experience in companies with employee base greater than 1000 persons preferably
- Work experience preferably at a service organization with revenue of more than $250M and with multiple sets of books where intercompany/business unit transactions are recorded
- Knowledge of financial statements and how balance sheet and income statement accounts relate to each other Knowledge of GAAP or IFRS
- Experience with large ERP systems; JDE preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Office; strong Excel skills required
- Experience with analytical/reporting tools
- Ability to determine steps to take to complete work and not have to be instructed on every aspect of your tasks
- Proven growth and diversity of responsibilities in their current organization
- Understanding deadlines and timing that necessitates ability to put in necessary time to meet team and individual deadlines
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Able to work at our corporate office two or three days per week
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:Competitive wages along with a great benefits package for full-time employees: medical, dental, vision, paid time off, employee discounts, and much more.
