Senior Benefits Accounting Analyst

Senior 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

• 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.

• 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 elevate timely to support accurate reporting and strong controls.

• 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.

Senior 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

• 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.

• 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…