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13 Jan 2021
Full-Time Payroll Specialist
Job Description
FIRST is seeking a highly professional and financially adept Payroll Specialist to manage company-wide payroll for the Americas. Ideal candidate should have a degree in accounting or business administration and has directly processed payroll in previous positions.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Prepare salaried and hourly employee payroll
- Maintaining, creating, and terminating employee payroll records as needed
- Onboard new hires onto payroll
- Track reimbursements and timesheets
- Track overtime and ensure employees are being paid accordingly
- Liaise with the People team regarding benefits & vacation tracking and track changes for accurate payroll runs
- Prepare and maintain 401k records
- Reconciling benefits to QuickBooks and Payroll
- Manage credit cards (limits, submitting applications for new hires and cancelling terminated employees cards)
- Updating concur with new hires/terminations
- Reconciling bank statements and YE payroll
- Entering accruals and assistance with audits
- Assist with monthly budget reconciliations and compiling employment reports
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- 3 – 5+ years’ direct payroll processing experience or related accounting/finance experience (preferably in a creative industry such as Marketing/Advertising, Events, Fashion, Technology, etc.)
- Knowledge of payroll systems and processes is required (experience working with Paychex & SAP is a plus but not required)
- Bachelor’s Degree highly preferred
- Focus on US GAAP (knowledge of UK GAAP a plus but not required)
- Job Cost Bookkeeping experience
- Experience working with and reporting from a timesheet database an advantage
- Proven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and multi-task as necessary to meet a deadline
- Strong accounting knowledge and project management skills
- Strong attention to detail and highly organized
- Welcomes change and improvements to working methods and is comfortable with new approaches
- Ability to work well, both independently and as part of a team, and meet professional challenges
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Payroll certification a plus
- SAP by Design experience a plus (or similar financial reporting system experience)
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel (including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, data validation, etc.)
- CRM system experience is a plus
- Multi-state accounting and bookkeeping experience
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