Payroll Specialist

Baker Tilly; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 62,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid learning

Health coverage

Mentorship

Flexible Westminster, CO setup

Job summary

Baker Tilly in Westminster, CO is seeking a detail-driven Payroll Specialist to manage reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis for a fast-growing operation. You will own budgets and dashboards, drive liquidity, and ensure accurate close processes in a collaborative team.

In this role you will translate numbers into insights for non-finance stakeholders, maintain controls, and support continuous improvement across financial planning and analysis functions.

Qualifications

• Experience translating Microsoft Dynamics complexity for a non-technical audience.
• CO work history, or strong reasons you’ll thrive here anyway.
• Familiarity with Empathy and related tools or frameworks.
• Practical command of Microsoft Dynamics, with bonus points for Variance Analysis.
• 1 year of learning when to trust the process and when to break it.
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams.
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later.

Responsibilities

• Stress-test the annual budget against three demand scenarios.
• Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and variance analyses for Baker Tilly.
• Build the junior analyst's first reconciliation checklist from scratch.
• Watch the burn rate and sound the alarm a quarter early.
• Stand up the Liquidity Management close calendar and hold every owner to it.
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Translate raw numbers into clear dashboards for non-finance stakeholders.
• Build variance commentary executives actually read top to bottom.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication

Empathy

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

Baker Tilly needs a detail-driven Payroll Specialist to manage reporting, forecasting, and Variance Analysis for a fast-growing operation. The pitch is honest — $62,000 - $90,000, real ownership of finance outcomes, and a Baker Tilly crew in Westminster that has your back.

Key Responsibilities

• Stress-test the annual budget against three refreshingly-candid demand scenarios
• Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and variance analyses for Baker Tilly
• Build the junior analyst's first reconciliation checklist from scratch
• Watch the burn rate and sound the alarm a quarter early
• Stand up the Liquidity Management close calendar and hold every owner to it
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
• Translate raw numbers into clear dashboards for non-finance stakeholders
• Build variance commentary executives actually read top to bottom

What You'll Bring

• Experience translating Microsoft Dynamics complexity for a non-technical audience
• A CO work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• Familiarity with Empathy and related tools or frameworks
• Practical command of Microsoft Dynamics, with bonus points for Variance Analysis
• 1 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later

Baker Tilly is less a vendor and more a make-it-better Westminster, CO workshop where SQL and Fixed Assets get the attention they deserve. Feedback flows in every direction at Baker Tilly, from the newest hire to the people signing the $62,000 - $90,000 checks.

Salary opens at $62,000 - $90,000 and the perks compound: paid learning, health coverage, mentorship, and a flexible Westminster, CO setup.

Hiring for this position is live and moving quickly, with interviews already underway.