Growing biotech company in Foster City, CA is hiring for Senior Payroll Accountant for a 9 month project beginning late March 2021. 

General Job Requirements:
• Perform a wide variety of payroll processing activities to ensure the accuracy of payroll for all employees
• Have a thorough understanding of the entire payroll cycle
• Uses strong organizational skills to ensure all payroll inquires from employees are resolved in a timely manner
• Support to ensure payroll audits and processing are done accurately in accordance with payroll processing checklist
• Work with internal and external partners to resolve payroll request when applicable
• Handle sensitive information with complete confidentiality

Position Specific Job Requirements:

• Performs assigned audits per payroll processing checklist
• Prepare and calculate earnings and deductions for manual check processing
• Analyze and perform accurate, complex computations of timecard adjustments
• Accurate data entry of payroll in payroll system
• Understand federal and state labor law requirement for employees’ final pay processes
• Maintains a high degree of accuracy with minimal errors by proactively implementing measures to validate work
• Applies effective problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve matters relating to the employee paycheck
• Acquires and retains working knowledge of all payroll systems’ functionality to independently research and resolve payroll issues.
• Acquires and retains working knowledge of Workday to efficiently and accurately retrieve data to produce reports for ad-hoc request and perform audit task
• Demonstrate active listening skills to accurately interpret employee or management inquires
• Utilize technology such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook efficiently
• Responds and resolve employees’ email inquiries and service tickets in a timely manner and according to established timeframe standards
• Provides superior customer service by maintaining positive, friendly, professional and patient attitude always
• Maintains confidentiality of all payroll data
• Participates in payroll department activities as assigned
• Research payroll issues independently, demonstrating high analytical ability, knowledge of best practices
• Excellent attention to details and able to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment

Knowledge, Experience, Competencies:
• Strong working knowledge of payroll wage and hour laws
• Good understanding of federal and state payroll tax and labor law
• Excellent problem-solving and analytic skills
• Ability to work independently and great attention to details
• Five plus years’ payroll experience in a large public company
• Proficient in MS application such as pivot tables, vlookup
• Work well under pressure in a fast-paced work environment
• Team player, positive attitude and willingness to support payroll department’s goals and vision
Specific Education Experience Requirements:
• College Education or equivalent
• Experience with ADP Payroll systems such as PayForce, EZ Labor is desirable
• Experience using Workday HCM