Responsibilities:

• Primary liaison between human resources and finance & accounting teams, including, but not limited to issue logging, and timely response and resolution of all inquiries.
• Participate in a team dedicated to process and system improvement
• Acquire, develop, and generate reports necessary to provide employee-level detail for benefits and payroll-related invoices and transactions. This includes navigating, compiling and reconciling multiple source data systems, spanning Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), PlanSource Benefits Management, COBRAPoint,  Alegeus, CommuterCheck. This role requires capabilities in navigating multiple reporting systems and file types.
• Manipulate and compile file formats to reconcile all benefit vendor invoice detail to charges, including but not limited to health, dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance, optional life and disability insurance, commuter check, HRA, FSA, and COBRA. Also includes reconciliation of various provider admin fees.
• Submit all vendor invoices via the accounts payable (AP) process, resolve inquiries from AP staff to ensure timely payments, and shepherd all payments to completion.
• Reconcile all vendor transactions to bank activity. Resolve and document discrepancies.
• Re-format and reconcile COBRA remittance reports.  Reconcile and resolve incoming funds transactions.
• Produce and reconcile payroll reports to bank activity (including regular cycle payrolls, ad-hoc payrolls, and any associated tax credits and debits).  This includes net pay, taxes, 401K. Resolve and document discrepancies.
• Generate mid- month and month-end written reports, and complete relevant tracking documents, detailing new or unique transaction types and/or anomalies in reconciliation.
• Support regular and ad hoc internal audit activities
• Maintain documentation of reconciliation processes and activities

Requirements:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience
• Demonstrated experience and resourcefulness researching, investigating and reconciling personnel financial data.
• Strong facility in generation and manipulation of reports across multiple systems (standard and custom)
• Skilled at identifying process inefficiencies and solution development/implementation
• Familiarity with systems and processes that sit at the intersection of the human resources, finance and accounting functions, specifically as they relate to payroll and benefits. Understanding of basic accounting principles, specifically personnel accounting and/or project-based accounting preferred
• Exposure to month-end and year-end close cycles
• Intermediate capabilities in Microsoft Excel.  Microsoft Access skills a plus.
• Experience or familiarity with general accounting software
• Exposure to Salesforce, Concur, Replicon, Plansource, Great Plains and/or UltiPro a plus.
• Superior judgement, able to quickly analyze a new landscape and its implications, understanding when to be resourceful and when to escalate
• Excellent verbal and written communication, including the ability to report on complex data in an easily understandable manner
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work independently and within teams in a fast-paced and high-volume environment with emphasis on accuracy and timeliness
• Ability to manage and meet deadlines for multiple projects simultaneously