Staff Accountant-Payroll/Fixed Assets

The Staff Accountant - Payroll is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of payroll-related financial data by recording, verifying, and reconciling payroll transactions. This position plays a critical role in payroll processing, fixed assets management, intercompany account reconciliations, and compliance with multi-state unemployment and withholding tax regulations. Should possess a strong understanding of accounting principles, payroll processing, and financial reporting, while ensuring compliance with legal requirements and company policies. This role also involves collaborating with HR and external payroll service providers to maintain accurate payroll records.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports the daily and monthly accounting reporting process under the supervision of the Accounting Manager.
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies.

• Maintains general ledger by reconciling entries.
• Summarizes financial status by collecting/entering information.
• Provides required information for auditors.
• Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
• Secures financial information by completing database backups.
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Examine documents for completeness, accuracy, or conformance to standards
• Maintain records, reports, or files
• Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records
• Takes responsibility for special projects assigned to support business objectives and decision making.
• Use computers to enter, access or retrieve data

Collections/Student Accounts:

• Provide support for the Collections team by managing weekly reports and providing ongoing lists of additional students assigned to each collector.
• Prepare and issue weekly collection summaries based on collector activity.
• Determine student bad debts and write-off according to established procedures, including sending accounts to collections.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred; or a combination of education and experience