Payroll Accountant

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Compensation: $55K - $70K ( DOE / MAX) 

Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC) is a non-profit organization and one of the largest Hispanic Community Development Corporations in the United States. The organization began with a group of student and community activists in 1967 and was incorporated and received non-profit status in 1969. CPLC is committed to empowering individuals through health & human services, housing, education, and economic development.

OBJECTIVE AND POSITION SUMMARY

The Payroll Accountant will oversee payroll-related audits, review payroll liability calculations, perform monthly reconciliation of all payroll-related liabilities, manage payroll vendor payment disbursement, and coordinate the updates to the payroll system to ensure accurate calculation of the payroll liabilities & expense accounts. This position will be responsible for performing the payroll detail expense journal entries by entity and working with the AR and AP team to perform the intercompany reconciliations. The position will perform other additional duties within the department as needed.

SPECIALIZATIONS

•    Written and oral communications, including public speaking.

• Problem-solving.

•    Interpersonal relations.

•    Business and technical writing.

•    Analytics, mathematics, and computer programs/platforms.

•    Highly developed time management skills with a strong ability to prioritize and make timely decisions

•    Superior verbal and written communication skills, specifically business/report writing

•    Ability to adapt style and messaging to effectively communicate with professionals at all levels both within the organization and the          firm

•    Ability to collaborate with partners and managers within other service lines and industries, as well as leaders

•    Superior analytical and diagnostic skills and ability to break down complex issues and implement appropriate resolutions

•    Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with a focus on details and accuracy

•    Solid project management skills

•    Excellent people development and delegation skills, including training/instruction

•    Capable of resolving complex business issues and proactive problem solving

•    Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external business partners

•    Must have basic math skills and ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common         fractions, and decimals.

•    Planning, organization, analysis, problem-solving, multitasking, and communication.

•    Interpreting instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or other formats.

•    Making independent judgments and maintaining attention throughout performance of duties.

•    Working alone and with a team

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

•    Establish and maintain relationships with internal/external business partners and employees

•    Oversee and manage the annual worker's compensation audit for all entities within the organization

•    Reconcile the worker's compensation employee class rate calculation to vendor invoice

•    Help manage the state unemployment filing requirements by payroll entity with either First Non-Profit or applicable state

•    Provide support with the annual 401K audit

•    Work with the Payroll team to ensure payroll liability accounts are correctly recorded by entity

•    Work with the Payroll team to properly post the bi-weekly detail payroll journal entry

•    Reconcile the Intercompany Payroll Billings to payroll records

•    Aid the Financial Analysts related to payroll expenses by entity

•    Researches and interprets federal and state regulatory requirements and resolves tax, withholding, garnishment, and wage/hour issues

•    Business analytics and reporting

•    Assesses business needs, analyzes, and makes recommendations for technology, systems, and tools which will best align with business needs and efficiencies

•    Work with the team to ensure requested supporting documents are complete, accurate, and properly approved

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES

•    Understanding of and ability to interpret AR invoice request forms, client payment received, and other requests from internal and     external business partners

•    Prepare and provide the automatic payment instructions with supporting documents when requested

•    Familiarity with/ability to use database software applications

•    Written and oral communications, including public speaking.

• Problem-solving.

•    Interpersonal relations.

•    Business and technical writing.

•    Analytics, mathematics, and computer programs/platforms.

•    Highly developed time management skills with a strong ability to prioritize and make timely decisions

•    Superior verbal and written communication skills, specifically business/report writing

•    Ability to adapt style and messaging to effectively communicate with professionals at all levels both within the client organization and the firm

•    Ability to collaborate with partners and managers within other service lines and industries, as well as Advisory leaders

•    Superior analytical and diagnostic skills and ability to break down complex issues and implement appropriate resolutions

•    Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with a focus on details and accuracy

•    Solid project management skills

•    Excellent people development and delegation skills, including training/instruction

•    Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external team members

•    Must have basic math skills and ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

•    Planning, organization, analysis, problem-solving, multitasking, and communication.

•    Interpreting instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or another format.

•    Making independent judgments and maintaining attention throughout the performance of duties.

•    Working alone and with a team

Physical Demand and Typical Working Conditions

Office Position: This position is both a mobile and a sedentary position with periods of light physical activity and is performed mostly in office surroundings. Positions typical in nature require regular walking or standing; sitting, lifting, and carrying up to 20 pounds; climbing stairs, bending, reaching, holding, grasping, and turning objects; and using fingers to operate computer keyboards. This position will require the ability to speak normally and to use normal or aided vision and hearing.

Travel: Local, interstate, and intrastate travel to Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., its affiliates, and/or subsidiaries, maybe be necessary to successfully fulfill the duties of this position. Candidate must have and maintain a valid driver’s license and auto insurance. Technology will be utilized to minimize travel whenever feasible. The travel requirements for this position are anticipated to be 5 percent assignment depending. Overnight travel must be approved in advance by Department VP.

Telecommute: Position may have the option to partially telecommute with prior approval from the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Telecommuting is not guaranteed and subject to job need and/or job performance.

Effective January 3, 2022, all CPLC Employees and all Service Providers, are required to be Fully Vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees, who are not Fully Vaccinated at the time of hire, are expected to begin a vaccination series immediately upon hire. CPLC recognizes medical and religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, in accordance with applicable law and upon approval by CPLC. However, any person approved for an exemption, without exception, is subject to masking. 

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