Senior Benefits Accounting Analyst

Senior Benefits Accounting Analyst

Benefits Accounting Analyst DRiV | Accounting & Finance Hybrid | Skokie, Illinois Position Overview The Benefits Accounting Analyst is an entry-level accounting role responsible for supporting payroll reconciliation, benefit-related accounting, reporting, and control activities associated with the Company's employee benefit programs. This role works closely with Accounting, Finance, Payroll, Human Resources, vendors, and third-party administrators to help ensure benefit-related payroll deductions, employer costs, invoices, funding activity, journal entry support, and account reconciliations are accurate, timely, complete, and properly documented.

The position reports to the Global Assistant Controller.

Key Responsibilities

• Benefit Accounting & Payroll Reconciliation Assist with benefit-related payroll reconciliations, including employee deductions, employer contributions, benefit funding, payroll registers, general ledger activity, vendor invoices, and benefit administration system reports.
• Prepare routine journal entry support and assist with recurring entries for benefit costs, payroll-related liabilities, accruals, prepaid expenses, reclasses, and true-ups under manager guidance.
• Support balance sheet account reconciliations related to benefits, payroll deductions, retirement plans, leave programs, workers' compensation, and related employee cost accounts.
• Research reconciling items and data differences by coordinating with Payroll, HR, vendors, and internal stakeholders to help resolve timing, coding, funding, or deduction issues.
• Month-End Close, Reporting & Controls Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities for benefit and payroll-related accounts, ensuring assigned tasks are completed on time and supported with appropriate documentation.
• Prepare assigned account reconciliations, schedules, roll forwards, and variance analyses for review by Accounting leadership.
• Maintain organized documentation and evidence supporting reconciliations, journal entry support, vendor invoice reviews, payroll reconciliations, approvals, and audit requests.
• Identify routine data issues, reconciling differences, or process questions and escalate timely to support accurate reporting and strong controls.
• Vendor, Payroll & Cross-Functional Support Work with Payroll and HR to help validate benefit deduction changes, employee and employer contribution updates, arrears, retroactive adjustments, refunds, taxable benefits, imputed income, and payroll funding impacts.
• Assist with reviewing and reconciling vendor invoices and funding requests to payroll, HRIS, benefit administration, and general ledger data.
• Support benefit-related financial reporting, cost trend analysis, budgeting support, audit requests, and ad hoc accounting projects as assigned.
• Assist with process improvements, data cleanup, account coding, system mapping, and reporting enhancements affecting benefit and payroll accounting processes.

Required Qualifications

• Education Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required; recent graduates with relevant coursework or internship experience will be considered
• Certification CPA eligibility, CPP, CEBS, or related accounting, payroll, or benefits certification is a plus, but not required
• Experience 2–5 years of accounting, finance, payroll, benefits, internship, or related experience; exposure to payroll reconciliation, account reconciliation, general ledger activity, Excel, ERP systems, payroll systems, HRIS platforms, or vendor invoice review preferred
• Core Competencies Foundational understanding of accounting concepts, general ledger activity, payroll accounting, accruals, prepaid expenses, liabilities, expense classification, and account reconciliations.
• Interest in developing experience with payroll deductions, employer contributions, vendor invoices, benefit funding, payroll registers, HRIS data, and benefit administration system reports.
• Strong analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail, data accuracy, and documentation quality.
• Ability to prepare routine journal entry support,…