North America Payroll and Accounting Manager

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Halliburton is seeking a Payroll Accountant Manager to support its payroll accounting operations in a large enterprise environment. This role is responsible for planning, organizing, and leading the accounting department. Responsible for accurate general ledger entries related to payroll, performing balance sheet reconciliations, and ensuring proper accrual accounting for employee compensation, benefits, and stock activity.  

Key Responsibilities

Under broad direction, responsible for planning, organizing, developing, and leading accounting department staff in the activities supporting general ledger, sub-systems, and related business applications, which may also include the preparation of financial statements and ancillary reports in a corporate or cost accounting environment

Responsible for preparation, review, and accuracy of business activities within the department, including executing financial close activities, reviewing and updating business practices, performing internal control self-assessments, preparing forecasts and annual business plans, and performing ongoing process improvements

Responsible for managing the recruitment, training, and development of accounting personnel within the assigned area

Serves as a trusted business advisor to management on key financial issues, financial performance, and strategy execution, including commercial business insight

Responsible for interpreting and applying company policy and accounting principles to financial transactions for internal control compliance

Manage payroll accounting, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and GL entries

Manage PTO/vacation reserve tracking and year-end vacation payouts

Reconciliation of payroll accounts, including wages payable, taxes, and benefits

Reconciliation of W-2’s, 1099’s, T-4’s, payroll accounts, including wages payable, taxes, and benefits, including adjusting entries

Maintain accurate payroll records for audits and regulatory purposes

Manage internal and external audits related to payroll

Ensure adherence to internal controls and company policies

Identify and implement improvements to payroll processes

Support payroll system upgrades or implementations and calculation testing

Perform Root Cause Analysis, communicate issues and resolution, work to remediate and implement process/system changes to prevent reoccurrence

Manage payroll related projects to implement system/policy changes with various teams

Manage ticketing system with Vendors and Internal to raise and resolve issues, respond to employee questions/issues, etc.

Qualifications

Applies technical accounting skills acquired through completion of an accounting or business university degree and eight (8) years of progressive experience in finance or accounting related roles, to include management experience

8+ years of accounting experience with direct payroll accounting experience

SAP S/4HANA experience required

Bachelor's degree

Experience with full cycle payroll processing, gross-to-net calculations, different types of stock transactions and federal, state, and local taxes

Demonstrates project management skills and awareness of financial performance metrics

Demonstrates strong knowledge in aspects of finance and accounting, internal controls and risk mitigation, company policy

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with ADP GlobalView (or enterprise-level payroll system) and SmartCompliance in a large enterprise payroll environment

Blackline experience

Workforce Software time system experience

SAP ECC experience

SuccessFactors/Employee Central experience

Strong knowledge of fundamental time and payroll regulations

At Halliburton, we're committed to providing you and your family with a comprehensive and affordable benefits package - which means we offer support for your physical, emotional, financial and parental needs, both now and in the future.  When you join our team, you'll have access to a wide range of resources designed to help you thrive at work and at home.  By clicking here , you can review a summary of the benefits available once you join. 

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Compensation Information

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Location

Houston, Texas 

Job Details

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Requisition Number: 212800 

Experience Level: Experienced Hire

Job Family: Finance & Accounting

PSL: Corporate 

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Halliburton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.