Accounting Manager

About the role

This position serves as the financial leader for our growing organization and the Human Resources point of contact for the entity. You will oversee payroll, benefit administration, and other human resources processes, ensuring compliance with company policy and applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards.
• Provide comprehensive financial updates to senior management by evaluating, analyzing, and reporting appropriate data points.
• Guide financial decisions by applying company policies and procedures to current economic landscapes.
• Develop, implement, and maintain financial controls and guidelines.
• Create a positive culture of accountability and acceptance.
• Help achieve budgeting goals with proper scheduling, analysis, and recommending corrective actions to senior leadership.
• Manage all customer portfolios: contracts, invoices, and collections. Liaise with Sales & Operations to optimize DSO.
• Prepare weekly cashflow forecasting.
• Prepare account analysis, bank and payroll reconciliations, and supporting journal entries.
• Prepare all other balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Oversee all disbursements for the Company.
• Establish and maintain a system of internal controls.
• Help lead systems and process implementations.
• Supervise support staff by coaching, mentoring, and growing the team.
• Ensure company-level processes and deadlines for timekeeping, onboarding, deductions, and payroll processing are met, delivering high-quality customer service to every associate.
• Oversee, and/or directly process, multi-state payroll with a high degree of excellence.
• Oversee, and/or directly complete, certified payroll in compliance with contract requirements.
• Check and audit payrolls to ensure compliance with applicable Federal, State, and local laws.
• Ensure timely response to employee questions, requests, or concerns about benefits, LOA, policies, procedures, or programs.
• Support the new employee initial benefit education and election process and annual open enrollment process.
• Support staffing & recruitment, including headcount & workforce planning, job posting, and job offer processes.
• Lead company onboarding process.
• Provide high-quality customer service through clear, timely communication that makes payroll and benefit information understandable and accessible to every associate.
• Coordinate response to Unemployment Claims.
• Maintain detailed, complete, and compliant records.
• Escalate employee relations and other issues as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, or related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in an accounting role in the construction industry.
• Detailed financial analysis skills to extract business insights and support decision-making.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Three (3) or more years of HR experience strongly preferred.
• Experience processing multi-state payroll required.
• Experience managing and submitting certified payroll and owning related processes preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge and compliant application of Fair Labor Standards Act and Department of Labor Wage and Hour laws required.
• Proficiency in use of HRIS & Payroll systems.
• Bi-lingual Spanish speaker a plus.

Physical Requirements

• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods: Occasionally
• Moving about to accomplish tasks at a worksite or moving from one worksite to another: Constantly
• Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments, such as stooping, kneeling, or crouching: Rarely
• Adjusting, moving, and lifting objects in all directions: Rarely
• Talking and hearing to communicate with others: Constantly
• Seeing to perform job duties at close range, such as monitors or screens: Constantly
• Seeing to perform job duties at a distance, such as driving or operating equipment: Occasionally
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers: Constantly
• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like: Rarely
• Operating machinery and/or power tools: Rarely
• Operating motor vehicles or heavy equipment: Occasionally
• The ability to travel regionally or nationally: Occasionally

Physical Demands

• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing: Constantly
• Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds: Occasionally
• Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds: Occasionally
• Heavy work that includes moving objects up to 100 pounds or more: Rarely

Working Conditions

• Low temperatures: Rarely
• High temperatures: Occasionally
• Outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind: Occasionally
• Noisy environments: Occasionally
• Hazardous conditions: Rarely
• Shift work, to include overnight work: Never
• Frequent overtime, including weekends: Never
• Office environment: Constantly

Benefits

Pave America and its companies offer a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.