Senior Accountant III - Payroll
Description
This position assists the accounting department with monthly accounting and reconciliations with a focus on global compensation and benefits.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The essential responsibilities for this position are including but not limited to the following:
- Preparing reconciliations accurately and timely each month with a heavy focus on commissions, payroll and employee benefit related areas for US and European entities, with all reconciling items researched, documented and resolved as appropriate.
- Performing operating expense flux analysis.
- Reviewing global payroll information and properly recording all related transactions in the general ledger via journal entries.
- Ensuring the company financial records are kept in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Supporting projects within the accounting function to ensure continuous improvement of accounting processes, identify areas of improvement and subsequently implement new efficiencies.
- Assisting with additional projects on an ad-hoc basis at the direction of the Accounting Manager.
- Working directly with the EU accounting team to ensure accurate accruals and expenses are recorded monthly
- Assisting in establishing and maintaining internal controls
- Analyzing operating costs and works with the Financial Planning and Analysis team to determine proper accruals
- Providing requested documentation to external auditors as well as accurately responding to questions related to that documentation
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting / Finance
- 2 - 5 years related work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Payroll or commissions experience is desirable, but not essential
- Global accounting experience
- Public accounting experience
- CPA
- Experience using Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Oracle
Required Skills:
- Self-motivated and proactive with ability to work under minimum supervision
- Strong time-management skills
- Strong work ethic - ability to prioritize and work in a demanding detail-oriented environment
- Strong ethical and confidentiality standards are essential
- Enthusiastic team player willing to assist others where necessary
- Strong analytical, technological, communication and organizational skills
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Highly advanced skills in Excel
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. GHX complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
GHX expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of GHX’s employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.