Payroll Accountant (GEN ACCOUNTANT 3)

Job Summary

Under general direction of the Payroll Services Director, provide high-level expertise in financial management and ensure compliance in highly complex issues associated with compensation and payroll, budget, labor, composite benefit expense, and leave accounting. Ensures compliance with terms and conditions prescribed by diverse funding sources and with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related area or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive experience in accounting, auditing, or financial management and experience working with ERP-level automated and computerized financial systems.
• Through knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), theory, practice and standards as they relate to general ledger maintenance, account reconciliation and financial statement preparation.
• Through knowledge of Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Financial Standards Board (FASB) accounting standards related to financial statement preparation.
• Analytical skills to resolve complex problems that may affect multiple organizations or functions.
• Extensive experience using Excel, reporting tools and/or equivalent applications to develop complex spreadsheets and ad hoc reporting including but not limited to pivot tables and Vlookups.
• Mathematical skills to calculate and analyze complex financial formulas.
• Skilled in creating queries using tools such as SQL Oracle commands.
• Decision making skills to review financial information, define issues, and develop strategies to resolve accounting issues.
• Demonstrated analytical and written communication skills to synthesize a high volume of information gathered from a variety of sources and perform complex analysis to interpret and summarize financial data and/or convey it to a diverse audience.

Key Responsibilities

• Payroll Account Reconciliation and Account Manager - 50%
• Financial Analysis and Reporting - 30%
• Special Projects - 20%