Senior Payroll Accountant
Bronx, NYJob$75–85K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Fordham University seeks a Senior Payroll Accountant reporting to the Associate Controller. The role supports the Assistant Payroll Manager with payroll research, analysis, reporting, and processing, while improving processes and ensuring accuracy and compliance. It also handles payroll reconciliations, tax analysis, audits, year-end activities, employee inquiries, and collaboration with IT. A bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or accounting and at least two years of accounting, HR, or payroll experience are required; Banner ERP experience is preferred.
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About Fordham:
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.
The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program ( EAP ); tuition remission; and generous time off.
Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.
Department: Controllers Transactional Services
Campus: Rose Hill (RH) - Bronx
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Associate Controller, the Senior Payroll Accountant will support the Assistant Payroll Manager in research, analysis, and reporting activities.
Essential Functions:
Reviews payroll processes, creates efficiencies, and backs up the processing of biweekly payroll.
Creates, reviews, and reconciles payroll reports to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Analyzes tax data to assist in business decisions on processes, including Grad Student and NRA tax situations. Bridges gap between NRA process and payroll services.
Reviews, manages, streamlines, and documents payroll processes and implements and communicates changes to upper management.
Assists with 403B audit, payroll bank reconciliation, and year-end payroll activities.
Processes and reconciles manual check requests, stop and reissues, and special payments.
Monitors and follows up on unclaimed property.
Collaborates with IT teams for upgrades, testing, and process improvement.
Oversees responses to payroll-related inquiries from employees and resolves any payroll discrepancies or issues.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accounting.
Minimum 2 years of experience in accounting/HR/Payroll.
Preferred Qualifications:
Banner ERP experience.
Minimum Salary: $75,000
Maximum Salary: $85,000
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