Senior Payroll & Contracts Accountant

netatwork; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Life insurance

401k with matching

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Holidays

Job summary

Net at Work is seeking an experienced Senior Accountant with a strong payroll background to spend ~50% of time on payroll processing, reconciliations, and compliance for financial reporting. The remainder supports payment processing backup and contract accounting analysis across HR, finance and operations teams.

The ideal candidate ensures payroll, benefits, taxes, garnishments, wages, and related liabilities are recorded, reconciled, and cleared timely, with cross-training on payments and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of accounting experience, with significant experience in payroll accounting or payroll-related reconciliations.
• Strong understanding of payroll taxes, employee deductions, employer benefits, garnishments, wage expense, and payroll liability accounts.
• Experience reconciling payroll reports to the general ledger and bank activity.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and large data analysis.
• Experience with Sage Intacct and Rippling.
• Understanding of payment processing controls, including wires, ACH payments, approvals, and segregation of duties, preferred.
• Ability to document processes, cross-train on key accounting functions, and improve reconciliation procedures.

Responsibilities

• Review and reconcile employee and employer payroll-related accounts.
• Create and maintain a year-to-date wage expense schedule that ties to the payroll register.
• Investigate and resolve variances between payroll reports, benefit invoices, tax filings, cash payments, and the general ledger.
• Own the month-end close activities related to payroll, benefits, taxes, accrued wages, bonuses and related payroll expenses.
• Support with commissions being coded correctly and timely; familiarity with ASC606 commission capitalization is helpful.
• Prepare payroll-related schedules and supporting documentation for internal review, audits, tax filings, and financial reporting.
• Cross-train on payment processing functions, including wires & ACH payments.
• Assist with reviewing and analyzing contracts in the Sage Intacct Contracts module, including contract values, contract lines, billing and revenue schedules, start and end dates, and related revenue recognition data.

Skills

Payroll accounting

Excel

Sage Intacct

Rippling

Financial reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

Sage Intacct

Rippling

Job description

Net at Work is seeking an experienced Senior Accountant with a strong payroll background to spend ~50% of time on payroll processing, reconciliations, and compliance for financial reporting. The remainder supports payment processing backup and contract accounting analysis across HR, finance and operations teams.

The ideal candidate ensures payroll, benefits, taxes, garnishments, wages, and related liabilities are recorded, reconciled, and cleared timely, with cross-training on payments and