Accountant III - Leave, Payroll Manager

About the role

The Payroll and Timekeeping Unit at Colorado Department of Human Services is responsible for processing accurate and timely payroll for over 5, 500 employees across the state of Colorado. This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

Responsibilities

• Determines compliance/noncompliance of payroll/timekeeping practices by researching federal and state rules, accounting practices and regulations.
• Identifies and resolves management issues that need improvement. Develops, establishes, modifies and implements procedures to maintain compliance.
• Analyzes problem areas and devises resolutions that assure the integrity of the resulting information. Implements altered or new procedures.
• Designs and implements appropriate plans of action.
• Participates in system assessment, design and roll out as applicable to assigned duties for both departmental and state wide systems and projects.
• Provides insight on overall impacts and participates in a leadership capacity within the payroll department.
• Directly supervises Accountant I & II’s and Program Assistant Staff with Indirect subordinates being Accountants and Accounting Technicians.
• Directly supervises at least three staff and indirectly supervises direct reports subordinates.
• Supervises assigned subordinates which could include interviewing, training, planning work schedules, leave approval and performance evaluations. Provides payroll and timekeeping guidance and supplies input for job performance evaluations.
• Maintains staff proficiency in assigned duties in order to assess the need for intervention or to recognize success for further skills utilization. Provides guidance to all subordinates regarding policies and procedures. Analyzes changing federal and state rules, selects the most effective and efficient process, implements, and provides direction to necessary staff.
• Applies generally accepted accounting principles, federal, state and department rules and regulations to resolve non-routine issues, disputes and questions concerning hours worked, leave and overtime calculations, and payroll calculations and adjustments for employees.
• Reviews points in contention, negotiates and mediates a reasonable resolution while assessing if departmental process or procedure changes are necessary. Provides guidance and expertise to subordinate staff and customers in the areas of department assigned duties.
• Makes account recommendations.

Requirements

• You must specifically document your work experience and qualifications on your application. Do not use "see resume" or "see attached."
• Experience Only: Eight (8) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position, specifically accounting, finance, payroll.
• OR Education and Experience: A combination of related education (coursework requires 27 semester hours completed in accounting or auditing) and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned equal to eight (8) years.
• Current, valid licensure as a CPA by the Colorado Board of Accountancy will count for six (6) years of the requirement.

Qualifications

• High Levels of Attention to detail
• Understanding of details and system interactions and potential impacts
• Excellent communications skills
• Experience dealing with difficult situations and customers
• Detailed data analytic skills
• 5 years of supervisory experience
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office software, specifically Excel and Access and/or google products
• Demonstrated experience working with CORE (Advantage)
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with program accounting principles and practices with human-services related programs

Skills

• Strong analytical skills and advanced proficiency with data manipulation and analysis in Excel, focusing on key functions like VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, and PivotTables.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$82,836.00 - $103,200.00 Annually

Schedule

Remote Work/Hybrid: In office 2 days a week (Wednesday & Thursday), Remote 3 days a week