Payroll Accountant Manager - Direct Hire (Onsite: Houston, TX)

Halliburton; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Halliburton is seeking a Payroll Accountant Manager to lead payroll accounting in a large enterprise. You will plan and organize the payroll department, ensuring accurate GL entries for payroll, stock activity, and accruals while maintaining internal controls and regulatory compliance.

The role includes managing NAM payroll procedures, system changes, and support tickets to ensure precise payroll processing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 8+ years of accounting experience with direct payroll accounting responsibilities in a large enterprise.
• Strong knowledge of GL accounting, accruals, reconciliation, and payroll-related accounting treatments.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and familiarity with ADP.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and lead the payroll accounting department.
• Ensure accurate general ledger entries related to payroll and stock activity.
• Manage balance sheet reconciliations and accrual accounting for employee compensation.
• Review NAM payroll procedures and oversee system changes and support tickets.
• Lead payroll-related audits and ensure internal controls compliance.
• Drive process improvements and oversee payroll system upgrades.

Skills

Payroll accounting

General ledger

Reconciliations

Project management

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

ADP GlobalView

SmartCompliance

Blackline

Workforce Software

SAP ECC

SuccessFactors/Employee Central

Job description

Halliburton is seeking a Payroll Accountant Manager to support its payroll accounting operations in a large enterprise environment. This role is responsible for planning, organizing, and leading the payroll accounting department. Responsible for accurate general ledger entries related to payroll, stock transactions, performing balance sheet reconciliations, and ensuring proper accrual accounting for employee compensation, benefits, and stock activity.This role will review NAM payroll procedures, manage system changes, manage support tickets to ensure accurate payroll processing.

• Salary:$125,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year, depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under broad direction, responsible for planning, organizing, and leading accounting department staff in the activities supporting general ledger, sub-systems, and related business applications, which may also include the preparation of financial statements and ancillary reports in a corporate or cost accounting environment
• Responsible for preparation, review, and accuracy of business activities within the department, including executing financial close activities, reviewing and updating business practices, performing internal control self-assessments, preparing forecasts and annual business plans, and performing ongoing process/system improvements
• Responsible for managing the recruitment, training, and development of accounting personnel within the assigned area
• Serves as a trusted business advisor to management on payroll analysis, error resolution and escalation, key financial issues, financial performance, and strategy execution, including commercial business insight
• Responsible for interpreting and applying company policy and accounting principles to financial transactions for internal control compliance
• Responsible for interpreting and applying company policy to ensure payroll processing in North America is compliant with regulations and abide with internal control compliance
• Manage payroll related accounting, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and GL entries
• Manage PTO/vacation reserve tracking and year-end vacation payouts, and communications
• Reconciliation of W-2’s, 1099’s, T-4’s, payroll accounts, including wages payable, taxes, and benefits, including adjusting entries.
• Maintain accurate payroll records for audits and regulatory purposes
• Manage internal and external audits related to payroll
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and company policies
• Identify and implement improvements to payroll processes
• Support payroll system upgrades or implementations
• Perform Root Cause Analysis, communicate issues and resolution, work to remediate and implement process/system changes to prevent reoccurrence.
• Manage payroll related projects to implement system/policy changes with various teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 8+ years of accounting experience with direct payroll accounting responsibilities in a large enterprise.
• Strong command of GL accounting, accruals, reconciliation, and payroll-related accounting treatments.
• Demonstrates project management skills and awareness of financial performance metrics.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge in aspects of finance and accounting, internal controls and risk mitigation, company policy, financial analysis and statutory reporting, forecasting, and financial applications.
• SAP S/4HANA experience required; ADP familiarity a plus.
• Experience with full cycle payroll processing, different types of stock transactions and federal, state, and local taxes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional accounting certification preferred.
• Experience with ADP GlobalView (or enterprise-level payroll system) and SmartCompliance in a large enterprise payroll environment.
• Blackline experience.
• Workforce Software time system experience.
• CPA preferred or actively pursuing.
• SAP ECC experience.
• SuccessFactors/Employee Central experience.
• Knowledge of fundamental time and payroll regulations.

Halliburton is an innovative leader in the oilfield services industry, providing products and services for the ever-evolving needs of the energy sector.

Since starting out over a hundred years ago, Halliburton’s path to success has been built on growth. Today, with over 50,000 employees worldwide and 1500 new openings every year, our talent needs have never been greater.

That’s why Halliburton has partnered with Talent Solutions to meet their ongoing contingent staffing needs. If you want to grow your career alongside an industry leader thatis changing the world of energy, then we look forward to connecting with you inside our Halliburton Contingent Workforce Network – your gateway to meaningful work opportunities all in one place.

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