Senior Payroll Accountant - New York, NY

Overview

Manage payroll processing, reconciliations, reporting, and benefit deductions using Paychex.

Key Responsibilities

• payroll reconciliation
• paychex upload
• deduction reconciliation
• benefit billing
• journal entries
• transaction mapping

Tasks

-Deductions & Contributions Reconciliation: Reconcile employer and employee contributions, including benefits, garnishments, union dues, and other deductions, to ensure accuracy in the general ledger. -Payroll Reconciliation: Perform payroll reconciliations for all regions, ensuring totals align between payroll reconciliation worksheets and payroll journal entries, and provide supporting schedules and analysis. -Payroll Processing & Analysis: Prepare, analyze, and upload payroll transactions from Paychex in a timely manner, including hours worked, personal time off, employee benefits, and benefit deductions. -FSA Reconciliation: Journalize and reconcile Flexible Spending Account (FSA) activities, including deductions from regional accounts. -Benefit Deduction Accuracy: Ensure proper identification and accurate posting of Paid Family Leave (PFL) and dental deductions to the correct general ledger accounts. -Benefit Bill Reconciliation: Maintain a schedule for reconciling consolidated benefit bills to payroll journal entries. -Reporting & Journal Entries: Prepare and analyze periodic payroll reports, schedules, and related journal entries, adhering to established policies, procedures, and guidelines. -Cash Funding Reconciliation: Reconcile cash funding to Paychex summary payroll transaction reports. -Payroll Transaction Mapping: Identify and resolve unmapped payroll transactions, investigating the appropriate accounting treatment, adjusting the payroll upload CSV file as needed, and coordinating with Paychex to resolve any mapping issues. -Mutual of America Contributions: Process Mutual of America bills based on semi-monthly 403(b) contribution remittance confirmation reports and related payroll reports, including semi-annual matching contributions.

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