Payroll Specialist

Egreenservices; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 48,000 - 75,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness budget

Retirement matching

Milestones for advancement

Job summary

Warner Bros in Albany, NY is seeking a Payroll Specialist for a part-time role. The candidate will transform messy accounts into readable charts, assist in modeling pricing and margins, and ensure expense reports are settled swiftly. The role emphasizes GAAP guidance and strong accounts payable curiosity in a studio environment.

The position offers a wellness budget, retirement matching, and clear milestones for advancement, with a supportive team in a low-drama Albany setting.

Qualifications

• Empathy to land hard feedback
• Curiosity that helps explain complex ideas
• 1+ years building trust in professional settings
• 1+ years in a Payroll Specialist role
• Composure to deliver bad news clearly
• Balance of customer service depth and accounts payable interest

Responsibilities

• Convert a messy chart of accounts into readable formats
• Support payroll analytics including pricing, margins, and unit economics
• Settle expense reports promptly to avoid delays
• Reconcile part-time benefits invoices line by line
• Translate GAAP nuances into practical guidance for Albany team
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies
• Explain finance cost structures to leadership as pricing floor guidance

Skills

Empathy

Curiosity

Reliability

Customer service

Accounts payable curiosity

Attention to detail

Job description

Warner Bros pays $48,000 - $75,000 because a Payroll Specialist who catches the error before it ships is worth every cent. This Payroll Specialist role hands junior talent $48,000 - $75,000, a part-time arrangement in NY, and the latitude to call the shots.

Key Responsibilities

• Convert a messy chart of accounts into something a newcomer can read
• Support the Payroll Specialist in modeling pricing, margins, and unit economics
• Settle expense reports fast enough that nobody chases you twice
• Reconcile the part-time benefits invoice against enrollment line by line
• Translate GAAP nuance into guidance the Albany team can apply
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
• Translate the finance cost structure into a pricing floor leadership trusts

What You'll Bring

• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• Demonstrated knack for making the deeply-curious feel manageable
• 1+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
• Roughly 1+ years operating in a similar Payroll Specialist position
• The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
• Equal parts Customer Service depth and Accounts Payable curiosity
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments

Warner Bros is a low-drama Albany, NY studio where Accounts Payable gets treated with the seriousness most companies reserve for marketing. A junior engineer and a director debate General Ledger ideas on equal footing in our Albany standups.

We provide $48,000 - $75,000, a wellness budget, retirement matching, and clear milestones for moving up to the next junior.

This req breathes: refreshed hours ago and still very much alive.