Sr. Accountant - Multi-State Payroll & Tax Compliance
About The Position
We are a growing fencing contractor operating in the construction industry, performing commercial and industrial fencing projects across multiple states. As our geographic footprint continues to expand, so does the complexity of our accounting, payroll tax, sales tax, and state compliance requirements. We are looking for an experienced Senior Accountant who enjoys digging into complex accounting issues, cleaning up problems, researching tax requirements, and building processes that keep those problems from coming back. This is not a routine accounting position. We need someone who can operate at a strong Senior Accountant level while also taking ownership of multi-state payroll tax, sales/use tax, and state compliance projects. CPA firm or public accounting experience is strongly preferred, particularly someone who has been exposed to multiple clients, complex reconciliations, audit or tax workpapers, financial statement preparation, and researching unfamiliar accounting or tax issues.
Requirements
- Strong Senior Accountant-level accounting knowledge
- Experience with month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial statements
- Ability to independently research unfamiliar accounting and tax issues
- Experience with payroll tax, sales/use tax, or multi-state compliance
- Strong Excel skills and the ability to work with large data sets
- Excellent documentation and workpaper skills
- Ability to identify the root cause of a problem rather than simply correcting the immediate issue
- Comfortable communicating with state agencies, payroll providers, CPAs, auditors, Operations, and leadership
Nice To Haves
- CPA firm or public accounting experience
- Construction accounting experience
- QuickBooks and/or Sage experience
- Experience using AI tools to improve accounting research, data analysis, documentation, reconciliations, or process efficiency
Responsibilities
- Assist with month-end close and preparation of supporting journal entries
- Assist with preparation and maintenance of balance-sheet reconciliations
- Research and resolve historical GL discrepancies
- Review payroll, tax, accrual, prepaid, fixed-asset, and liability accounts
- Assist with financial statement preparation and account analysis
- Support construction accounting, job costing, WIP, retainage, and related reconciliations
- Prepare audit-ready workpapers and supporting schedules
- Identify accounting-control weaknesses and implement better processes
- Review payroll-tax setup for employees working across multiple states
- Research state withholding, unemployment, reciprocity, and other employer requirements
- Register new state and local payroll-tax accounts
- Research and resolve historical filing issues and tax notices
- Reconcile payroll tax filings, payments, payroll reports, and GL accounts
- Work with the payroll provider to ensure employees are taxed correctly based on work location
- Help identify potential historical payroll-tax exposure and assist with corrective filings or remediation when necessary
- Assist with our ongoing multi-state sales-tax nexus review
- Research construction sales/use-tax requirements by state
- Determine registration and filing requirements
- Review reseller, resale, and exemption documentation
- Prepare or review sales/use-tax filings
- Help identify potential historical tax exposure and assist with corrective filings or remediation when necessary
- Develop procedures so tax requirements are identified before projects begin
Benefits
- 10% target annual bonus
- Health insurance benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
