Staff Accountant I

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What part will you play?

The Staff Accountant for Payroll Tax performs critical, detailed analysis required to process payroll tax filings and payments. The role ensures all amounts reported and paid are reconciled to PeopleSoft. This role also ensures all reporting is accurate and submitted by required deadlines in order to avoid penalties and interest assessments related to late or inaccurate payments and filings.

What will you be doing?

• Review, reconcile, and transmit wage and tax information processed by Payroll daily via on and off cycle check runs to Payroll Tax Processing Vendor.
• Review and reconcile funding requests to payroll wage and tax information processed.
• Approve funding.
• Create journal entry to record the tax payments to the appropriate tax liability accounts.
• Reconcile and resolve variances between tax payments and accruals by jurisdiction.
• Reconcile daily tax transactions to Quarterly PeopleSoft tax balances.
• Coordinate corrections to taxes and ongoing employee withholding with Payroll and HRIS.
• Make adjustments as necessary to ensure that checks processed are reported in the proper period.
• Reconcile quarterly filings to annual balances and W2s. Identify variances in prior periods filings, determine course of action needed to resolve, amend prior periods returns, or make additional payments as required.
• Maintain all state, local, and federal payroll tax registrations.
• Maintain the tax location code table and unemployment rates in PeopleSoft.
• Prepare additional correspondence to request information, abatement of penalties, or refunds as needed with federal, state, and local agencies.

What do we require from you?

• 4-year degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Basic analytical and Microsoft Excel skills.
• Self-motivated and able to handle multiple tasks with minimal guidance in order to meet deadlines.
• Good oral and written communication skills to articulate key information.
• Initiative and willingness to take on additional responsibilities.
• High emphasis on teamwork, collaboration, data analysis, and process innovation.
• Self-starter and work with direction and taking ownership of areas of responsibility.
• Detail-oriented and high energy.
• Unceasing curiosity and the courage to challenge the status quo.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word & PowerPoint.

But wait, there’s more!

• Paid time off every year to volunteer
• 2016 Best Company for Working Mothers
• An in-house learning and development team to help shape and grow your career
• Part of the Time Warner family of powerhouse brands like HBO, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TNT, and TBS

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and E-Verify users. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.