Senior Office Accountant - Payroll

Division: Turner Shared Services Project Location(s): Cincinnati, OH 45202 USA Minimum Years Experience: 3 Travel Involved: None/Not Specified Job Type: Regular Job Classification: Experienced Education: Bachelors Degree Job Family: Finance Compensation: Salaried Non-Exempt **Position Description:***Overseeactivity for processing weekly trade payrolls and biweekly staff payrolls,including off-cycle payrolls and postings. Responsible for tracking, analyzing,troubleshooting, and auditing payroll data.*Essential Duties & Responsibilities: - Manage process to validate payroll checklists to ensure all processes are completed. - Authorize positive pay files for all payroll checks issued, ACH files daily, and initiate stop payment requests. - Verify reporting of contributions to Union Pension and Health plans. - Conduct scheduled and Ad Hoc payroll audits on processes and data to ensure data integrity and compliance with company policy, and legal requirements. - This includes, but not be limited to; union audits, claims reporting, address setup audits, and International tax and VISA setups. - Manage bank exception items on all Payroll accounts by researching through proper channels to resolution. - Main point of contact for business units and auditors, coordinate all requests for payroll documents and responses to Union audits. - Analyze and extract Union pay scale table data from collective bargaining agreements to ensure current and accurate Union payroll information. - Review all weekly, bi-weekly and month-end payroll postings and maintain database to validate completion. - Maintain activity rates for trade employees with upload template. - Take active role as trainer and mentor. - Partner with Human Resources, Benefits, and Compensation teams to coordinate initiatives, provide guidance on established policies and procedures, and promote consistency and compliance with company standards. - Facilitate the cross-functional team environment to ensure that identifying test data, execution of payroll testing and validation for system bug fixes and enhancements are completed and communicated accurately and timely. - Prepare and verify payroll metrics monthly making sure information is available, as necessary; including number of off cycle payrolls, late timesheets received, and number of retroactive payrolls processed. - Present recommendations to Payroll Managers for resolutions on current outstanding issues and process improvements based on findings. - Research, resolve and respond to issues with payroll postings from business units. - Analyze payroll balance sheet and bank reconciliations and ensure entries for correcting reconciliation items are prepared and entered by payroll staff. - Prepare and deliver training to Payroll group as needed. - Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned. Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field, and 3 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and/or experience, CPP certification preferred Previous experience in international/Canadian environment preferred Excellent knowledge of accounting principles (GAAP) to ensure timely and accurate reporting Understand accounting implications of various contract terms (i.e. billable/non-billable, owner/subcontractor) Basic understanding of risk management tools and processes (cash position reports, bank reconciliations) High degree of organizational