North America Payroll and Accounting Manager

Halliburton • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Halliburton is seeking a Payroll Accountant Manager to support payroll accounting operations in a large enterprise environment. The role plans, organizes, develops, and leads accounting department staff and activities supporting the general ledger, sub-systems, and related business applications. Responsibilities include maintaining accurate payroll-related accounting, supporting financial close and reporting, and advising management on financial issues, performance, and strategy execution. The position also manages payroll accounting processes, audits, controls, payroll-related projects, system changes, and issue resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or business.
• Eight years of progressive experience in finance or accounting-related roles, including management experience.
• At least eight years of accounting experience with direct payroll accounting experience.
• SAP S/4HANA experience.
• Experience with full-cycle payroll processing, gross-to-net calculations, different types of stock transactions, and federal, state, and local taxes.
• Project management skills and awareness of financial performance metrics.
• Strong knowledge of finance and accounting, internal controls and risk mitigation, and company policy.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ADP GlobalView or another 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.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, develop, and lead accounting department staff and activities supporting the general ledger, sub-systems, and related business applications.
• Prepare, review, and ensure the accuracy of business activities, including financial close activities, practice updates, internal control self-assessments, forecasts, annual business plans, and process improvements.
• Manage recruitment, training, and development of accounting personnel in the assigned area.
• Advise management on financial issues, financial performance, strategy execution, and commercial business matters.
• Interpret and apply company policy and accounting principles to financial transactions to support internal control compliance.
• Manage payroll accounting, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and general ledger entries.
• Manage PTO and vacation reserve tracking and year-end vacation payouts.
• Reconcile payroll accounts, including wages payable, taxes, and benefits.
• Reconcile W-2s, 1099s, T-4s, and payroll accounts, including related adjusting entries.
• Maintain accurate payroll records for audit and regulatory purposes.
• Manage internal and external payroll audits.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and company policies.
• Identify and implement payroll process improvements.
• Support payroll system upgrades or implementations and calculation testing.
• Perform root cause analysis, communicate issues and resolutions, and implement process or system changes to prevent recurrence.
• Manage payroll-related projects to implement system and policy changes with various teams.
• Manage vendor and internal ticketing to raise and resolve issues and respond to employee questions and issues.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and affordable benefits package supporting physical, emotional, financial, and parental needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager