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Robert Half Accounting-Payroll Clerk in Cerritos, California
Description
We are currently looking for an Accounting- Payroll Clerk for our client in Cerritos.
JOB SUMMARY:
Responsible for generating new staff letters and ensuring all new staff paperwork is completed by employees in a timely and accurate manner. Performs a wide variety of onboarding, personnel document review, and payroll processing activities including updating payroll system with personnel action changes, preparing bi-weekly payrolls, recording payroll deductions, processing calculations for manual checks, processing terminations and other assigned payroll and accounting responsibilities. This position is 30% Onboarding, HR Administration and Payroll and 70% Accounting and AP responsibilities.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
§ Responsible for onboarding new staff and maintaining and updating employee files, including information on terminations, and changes.
§ Generate new staff letters and ensure all new staff paperwork is completed by employees and hiring managers in a timely manner. Frequent communication with managers and HR regarding status of documents.
§ Responsible for preparing final check calculations.
§ Audit and maintain new staff forms and onboarding requirements in ADP employee profiles.
§ Assist with tracking and maintaining current licensing information in ADP for a variety of clinical roles.
§ Research and resolve payroll discrepancies in a timely and accurate manner.
§ Post payroll related entries to the general ledger, accounting software, and reconcile payroll accounts, as necessary.
§ Process bi-weekly payrolls in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations and company guidelines.
§ Assist with administration of employee health benefits and 401k enrollments, payment submission, changes, terminations.
§ Setup new payroll tax jurisdictions and works with government agencies.
§ Post benefit and payroll fee related invoices to AP & GL Accounting modules.
§ Assist Accounts Payable department at month end with invoice input, reconciliations, and other tasks.
§ Assist Accounting Department with employee expense report auditing in expense system.
§ Compile, organize and prepare deposits for remote deposit capture machine.
§ Enter bank deposit information into various spreadsheets.
§ Assist managers, supervisors and office staff with administrative and special projects or tasks.
§ Box up year-end AP and Accounting files for storage.
§ Assist accounts payable team with copying, scanning, and filing invoices and expense reports.
§ Administrative duties for general office management.
§ Copying, scanning, filing, organizing of Personnel and/or Accounting Dept documents.
Requirements
§ High school graduate or equivalent.
§ AA Degree in Accounting and/or coursework equivalent.
§ BS Degree in Accounting or Finance a plus.
§ One to three years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in a corporate office environment
§ One to three years of experience in a human resources or payroll department.
§ ADP Workforce Now experience preferred.
§ Experience with Sage Intacct or other accounting software.
§ Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word user is required.
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