payroll accountant.

Are you a meticulous Payroll Accountant with 5+ years of experience in a union environment? Our client, a leader in the electrical contracting sector, is seeking a dedicated Field Payroll Accountant to manage complex union contracts, prevailing wage, and fringe benefit reporting.

The Opportunity: Own Compliance & Accuracy



You will be the expert in establishing and maintaining payroll tables, controlling pay rates and fringe benefit rates in strict accordance with various union agreements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Union Compliance: Interpret complex contracts and implement union rate and fringe changes.
  
  
• Reporting: Process monthly fringe benefit transmittals and payments to unions.
  
  
• Certified Payroll: Ensure timely and accurate Certified Payroll (online and paper) and Prevailing Wage reporting.
  
  
• Reconciliation: Reconcile monthly fringe accruals and payments against the General Ledger (GL), and correct variances.
  
  
• Systems: Set up new union job/fringe structures in Oracle and maintain reporting requirements in Access.
  
  
• Process improvements and vehicle taxability maintenance.
  
  

What You Bring:

• Experience: Minimum 5 years’ work experience with a union employer.
  
  
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
  
  
• Technical Skills: Accounting, 10-key, and data entry skills. Proficiency in Excel and Access required. Oracle experience preferred.
  
  
• Attributes: Self-motivated, proactive team player with excellent written and oral communication skills.
  
  

Bonus: American Payroll Association (APA) membership is desirable.

  Ready to apply your specialized union payroll expertise to an impactful role?



salary: $34 - $40 per hour
shift: First
work hours: 8 AM - 5 PM
education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

• Union Management: Interpret union contracts, process rate and fringe changes, set up new union job/fringe structures in Oracle, and collaborate with trust funds on reporting requirements.
  
  
• Compliance & Reporting: Manage Prevailing Wage/Certified Payroll reporting, audits, and set-ups (both online and paper). Work with internal departments to correct and re-file certified payrolls as necessary. Comply with government statistical reporting and wage surveys.
  
  
• Special Projects: Implement and maintain union portability accruals, payments, and payroll deductions for out-of-area agreements.
  
  
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement streamlined/automated processes.
  
  
• Documentation: Scan, index, and update union contract details in the imaging system.
  
  
• Misc. Payroll: Maintain company vehicle logs in the payroll master file, ensuring accurate employee taxability.
  
  

Skills

Payroll Processing

Payroll Accounting & Benefits

Payroll Tax

Union Payroll

Oracle

Qualifications

Years of experience: 5 years

Experience level: Experienced

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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