BFT Temporary Payroll Accounting Operations Specialist

Mass General Brigham • Somerville, MA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time role, 40 hours / week. The primary point of contact for managing retroactive pay and retroactive funding calculations and issues, identifying and adhering to best practices in payroll accounting. This role will interact with several points of contact in the Research, Finance, and Payroll organizations, and may also be called upon to work with executive leadership at times. Proactively address the demands of each organization, routinely applying combined complex analytic, accounting, and problem-solving skills to all requests processed through this team.

Requirements

• Professional research accounting, research administration, payroll, or finance 3-5 years required
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to research issues and process complex transactions and procedures.
• Experience in translating and communicating key analyses and assumptions to Senior Management for decision-making.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and handle complex and confidential information with discretion.
• Familiarity with accounting, fund/grant, and payroll management systems, Workday a strong plus.
• Requires strong organization and communication skills with a strong focus on customer service.

Nice To Haves

• Workday a strong plus

Responsibilities

• Manage Workday unsupported retroactive costing allocations for CAPAS (Costing Allocations and Payroll Accounting Solutions), inclusive of analyzing, calculating, communicating, and entering into Workday any unsupported retroactive transactions that require accounting adjustments to adjust labor allocations. This also includes transactions that require manual entries that are unsupported or unprocessed due to multiple pay groups. These transactions are part of the MGB CAPAS integration automation but cannot be processed in payroll due to workers having other non-supported retroactive transactions in Workday.
• Manage Workday unsupported retroactive pay for Payroll. Manage the process of calculating, tracking, communicating to Payroll Operations, and prepping any transactions that are not processed by Workday and become manual transactions due to workers having other non-supported retroactive transactions in Workday. This includes corrections coming from the UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) time tracking/scheduling application.
• Provides guidance, resolves issues, and helps navigate the challenges related to managing retroactive activity in a fast-paced environment with sizeable transaction volume.
• Responsible for reviewing and processing payroll and financial data from reports and queries, processing journal entries, preparing payroll payment transactions, and making sure all of this is done in a timely manner to ensure accurate reporting and payroll payments.
• Identify Workday payroll-related journal lines in error, and if possible, fix prior to payroll completion, or address by collaborating with the Payroll and Finance teams.
• Removal of Costing Allocations when a grant ends and it hasn't been done by another group. Retroactively move journaled salary expenses for terminated employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed