Payroll and Accounting Specialist

About the job Payroll and Accounting Specialist

Essential Functions (include but are not limited to)

• Responsible for ensuring employee personal information is correctly recorded in ADPWorkforce Now as this relates to employment records. Thisis inclusive of, but not limitedto, address changes, taxation, wage rate, 401K or other deductions, wage garnishments,benefits, etc., that are required for payroll.
• Responsible for federal, state, and local tax records for payroll. State and local payroll is predicated on the physical location where the employee resides and the payroll associate must be knowledgeable and able to research multiple state and local municipalities to accurately .
• Responsible for accurately recording the accrual of PTO and Vacation plans,holiday payment, shift differentials, bonuses and other financial items that are part of the employees compensation. This requires understanding and adhering to the Client'ssubsidiary handbooks and policies while adhering to federal, state and local payroll regulations.
• Assist with payroll account reconciliations with the general ledger.
• Prepare various payroll reports for leadership as needed.
• Manage integrations into new ADP platforms including transfer of client groups where necessary.
• Understand and maintain clients policies with PTO plans, holiday payment, shift differentials, etc. based upon the clients handbook and policies while adhering the federal,state, and local regulations.
• Handle the expatriate payroll process once per month and associated recordkeeping.
• Process New Hire and Termination transactions
• Process Benefit Enrollment updates

• Assist the Compliance team in reconciling tax accounts, reconciling annual reports, and preparing annual W-2s.
• Prepare payroll funding process to accounting through ERP process and prepare salary vouchers.