Staff Accountant, Payroll

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data‑driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re united by shared goals and shared motivations se are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

You emphasize accuracy in everything you do. Your trustworthiness and attention to detail make you a key player in the realm of finance. You are eager to excel in and contribute to a supportive, entrepreneurial environment.

As a Staff Accountant, Payroll, you will sit within the Accounting team and report to the Payroll Manager. You will be responsible for creating financial transactions related to payroll and reconciling all payroll and total rewards related accounts.

• Responsible for account reconciliations, entering journal entries, and maintaining accurate records and files and contributing to the timely and accurate entry of financial transactions and journal entry preparation
• Manage monthly bonus and commission accrual calculation and enter related journal entries
• Manage account analysis, reconciliations and various accounting schedules as part of the month‑end close process
• Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of best practices payroll policies and procedures
• Provide support during the annual audit
• Assist with special projects, as needed and perform other duties as assigned

As a Staff Accountant, results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

• Detail‑oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
• Analytical - uses a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem to arrive at an outcome.
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
• Organizational awareness - maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people‑related organizational dynamics.
• Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.

In addition, all Just workers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

• Minimum of 2 years of…