Senior Payroll Accountant

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Payroll Accountant to join our team in Boca Raton, FL. This role focuses on payroll and benefits accounting and involves managing a large employee base and related benefits.

Responsibilities

• Performing assigned monthly Journal Entries, closing responsibilities, analytics, and reporting.
• Ensuring postings of weekly payroll registers from payroll platform occur with errors identified and corrected.
• Post all adjustments from payroll expense accounts necessary against reserves and balance sheet accounts to reflect proper expense and asset/liability balances.
• Work with our legal department to record all workers compensation and auto claims expense and maintain proper reserves.
• Prepare monthly forecast for payroll groups excluding direct labor.
• Analyze results versus forecast and actual and provide explanations for variations and identify possible adjustments needed.
• Maintain all benefit accruals related to medical, dental, compensation, bonus, severance, and other benefits.
• Work with the Controller in preparation of annual budget and revisions during the year related to payroll and benefits.
• 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.
• Reconciliation of payroll bank accounts.
• Become knowledgeable about our business operations and how that relates to assigned areas.
• Be 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.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations on all assigned accounts.
• Prepare 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

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from an accredited university.
• Minimum seven years experience, including three years handling payroll and benefits.
• Experience in companies with employee base greater than 1000 persons, 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. EOE, Drug Free Workplace.