The Payroll Accountant is responsible for preparing, reviewing, and filing company quarterly payroll taxes. This role will review and approve all payroll and benefit balance sheet reconciliations and answer accounting questions regarding payroll variances/analytics.

• Manages, reconciles and reviews all payroll liability accounts for 10 entities including medical benefits and employee deductions.
• Ensures accuracy related to all payroll liability accounts.
• Posts journal entries to the financial general ledger for all payroll and benefit differences.
• Reviews and maintains multi-state quarterly and annual taxes.
• Reviews and approves tax payment requests to ensure that no payments are missed, payments are prepared accurately, on time and no penalties are assessed.
• Provides backup coverage to payroll for reviewing, approving and accepting all payrolls in ADP Vantage weekly.
• Downloads, edits and posts payroll from ADP to the financial general ledger accounts monthly in a timely and accurate manner.
• Acts as a liaison between payroll and accounting and addresses accounting questions related to payroll variances.
• Monthly bank reconciliations for a number of bank accounts.
• Prepares monthly admin billing of payroll for 8 different joint ventures.
• Prepares monthly estimated payrolls for COSCO joint venture.
• Prepares annual audit schedules for Annual Workman’s comp audits for 20 companies.
• Performs compliance for unclaimed property payroll checks, sent to Tax department for payment to EE or State.
• Balances ADPR report to the activity spreadsheets for various companies on a quarterly and annual basis and handles payroll to W-2’s annually. (W-2, W-2c, etc.).
• Prepares annual vacation spreadsheet for audit using ADP e-Time & Vantage.
• Other job duties as assigned.