US Accountant (Payroll)

ECLARO; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

ECLARO in the Philippines is seeking a Payroll Accountant to manage payroll accounting across multiple cycles and entities, ensuring timely and accurate journal entries.

You will reconcile payroll-related accounts, benefits, and taxes, analyze variances, and support internal audits, while collaborating with payroll and operations teams.

Strong Excel skills and English communication are essential, with a degree in accounting or finance and prior payroll experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Experience preparing and posting payroll journal entries.
• Experience performing payroll-related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookups; strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and record payroll-related journal entries for multiple payroll cycles and entities.
• Reconcile payroll clearing, wage, tax, benefits, and other payroll-related balance sheet accounts.
• Reconcile employee benefit deductions, employer benefit expenses, and benefit vendor invoices.
• Analyze payroll variances and investigate discrepancies.
• Maintain payroll accounting schedules and support audit requests.
• Serve as the primary accounting liaison to the Payroll team.
• Review payroll reports for completeness, reasonableness, and accounting accuracy.

Skills

Advanced Excel

English communication

Attention to detail

Payroll experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

Pivot tables

Lookups

Job description

• Prepare and record payroll-related journal entries for multiple payroll cycles and entities.
• Reconcile payroll clearing, wage, tax, benefits, workers' compensation, and other payroll-related balance sheet accounts.
• Reconcile employee benefit deductions, employer benefit expenses, and benefit vendor invoices.
• Analyze payroll variances and investigate discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Maintain payroll accounting schedules and support audit requests.

Payroll & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the primary accounting liaison to the Payroll team.
• Review payroll reports for completeness, reasonableness, and accounting accuracy.
• Assist in researching payroll issues, adjustments, corrections, and retroactive transactions.
• Collaborate with payroll and operations personnel to ensure accurate employee and client payroll data.
• Communicate effectively with offshore, outsourced, and cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Experience preparing and posting payroll journal entries.
• Experience performing payroll-related balance sheet reconciliations and researching reconciling items.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of transactions.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.