A services organization in New Jersey is actively seeking a new Principal Accountant to join their team.
About the Opportunity:
- Start Date: ASAP
- Assignment Length: Ongoing (at least 6+ months with likely extension)
- Schedule: Monday to Friday
- Hours: 8:30am to 5:30pm
- Department: Finance
- Setting: Onsite
Responsibilities:
- Monitor the accounting, reporting, and control of financial data to ensure the accurate maintenance and reporting of expenditures
- Participate in the implementation and development of policies and procedures to maintain consistency, improve methodology, and efficiency of accounting operations
- Ensure accurate withholding of deductions from employee pay, in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations
- Oversee Electronic Payments of employee pay, ensuring mandatory direct deposit participation for specified groups of employees
- Handle employee account setup, payroll payment reversals, and bank returned funds, as well as creating manual checks (replacements)
- Ensure the accurate and timely disbursements and reporting to third parties, including processing the weekly and monthly interface files to Accounts Payable
- Perform and review analyses of selected general ledger accounts; identify and resolve reconciling items and accounting issues on a timely basis
- Oversee all pension-related deductions, payments, and reporting
- Process inbound and outbound payroll interface files, while complying with required file layout specifications, troubleshooting errors, and reconciling data
- Review and approve pension calculations, pension and deduction refunds, voluntary/nonvoluntary deductions, taxes, direct deposit, and address changes
- Perform other duties, as needed
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of applied Accounting experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related area
- Tax reporting and Deductions experience
- Knowledge of computerized financial systems
- Advanced skills in Excel
- Great interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Strong attention to detail
- Highly organized
Desired Skills:
- Payroll background
- Discoverer or Orbit report writer experience
